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Alternator design for big LENZ | 10 comments (10 topical, editorial)
Re: Alternator design for big LENZ (3.00 / 0) (#6)
by Stonebrain on Fri Aug 29th, 2008 at 02:17:42 PM MST
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I think indeed you're a bit optimistic thinking that you can figure out an alternator in 15 days.
If you're copying an existing proven design,it might be doable.
But in you're case,even if you're can do guestimations the way ulr explained,you must be ready to do some tweaking like making testcoils and adjusting the airgap.You need to understand how to do a trade off between cut-in speed and high wind performance.
If you want to do these things right,you need to understand what you're doing.

Be aware that even if the theoretical poweryield from a lenz can be good,it's still a relative low rpm-machine,what means that if you want to extract all the power of your lenzrotor,you need a quite big,or even huge alternator or a gear.

Do some reading.Be studiing.This costs time.

In the ideal case you would be able to guestimate a powercurve.
What I mean by this is that you guess for some windspeeds the optimum rpm and poweryield.If you know the powercurve,you're nearly there.
Then you just ask the best alternator-guestimator of the web,named 'flux'(we're lucky he is living on this board)what you're alternator have to be like.
As long as you can't say anything about your rotor,even flux can't help you very much.

cheers,
stonebrain



Re: Alternator design for big LENZ (3.00 / 0) (#7)
by vawtman (vawtman(at)charter(dot)net) on Fri Aug 29th, 2008 at 03:37:00 PM MST
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Hi Stone

 I think Ed(windstuff) already gave him the most professional opinion.Flux is not much of a vawt fan.

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Alternator design for big LENZ | 10 comments (10 topical, 0 editorial)

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