Standing Out

Russell in Michigan

Russell and his son built this beautiful wind turbine in their home shop. You can see in the photos that their craftsmanship is second to none.


Russell described his turbine in this e-mail:

"Heres a picture of the tower and turbine the center line of Hub is at 55 feet its a 10 foot diameter turbine and my son Roy and myself built 2 of these in our machine shop last winter .The tower we fabricated this summer its 7.6 ft at the base 16,000 lbs of cement at the base and goes up in 3 stages . The top section is 3 ft and the mast runs in 3 inch flange bearings .The turbine works well we had it on a small tower for testing since march this yr and completed the tower the end of August 2008 . This week I have seen peak outputs of 1800 watts and cuts in below 10 mph . The stator is 9 coils we wound and is encapsulated in high quality epoxy resin and the rotors are 12 magnets on 1/4 plate steel cast in epoxy as well . Its 3 phase ac and push the ac flux about 200 ft threw #6 wire then use bridge rectifiers to convert to charge the battery bank which also is charged by 5 solar panels producing 420 watts total lots of fun and have enjoyed building it. Thanks again for the charge controllers great product going to be very useful in this project."





"This is a view from the Ham tower its the same tower except the 3 section are
about 18 ft and was built in 1985 I helped my uncle put it up back then and we
took it down 2 yrs ago and put it back up here He had a 20 ft turbine on it . Im
looking forward to building bigger turbines in the furture."