Go to Otherpower.com Home Page Go to Forcefield Shopping Cart Go to Wondermagnet.com Home Page
Front Page - [Homebrewed Electricity-- (wind) (solar) (hydro) (steam) (controls) (storage) (mechanical)] - Classifieds - Site News
Everything - Newbies - [Remote Living-- (housing) (heat) (light) (water)] - Rants & Opinion - Diaries - Our Products
VAWT land | 25 comments (25 topical, 0 editorial)
Re: VAWT land (3.00 / 0) (#1)
by spinningmagnets (velmis1450bc(at)aol(dot)com) on Sat Aug 30th, 2008 at 01:58:30 PM MST
(User Info)

It sounds like you want a "Savonius" VAWT? If yes, no reason the sheet-metal tubes wouldn't work as well as anything else thats been tried.

Before you spend money or time building one, I urge you to research "Benesh profile" and "Lenz 2".

Each has its own peculiarities, and all can be cheap and fun to make. Though they all seem to make very few Watts inspite of extensive experimentation.

"Exaggeration is a million times worse than understatement" -Steven Wright



VAWT land | 25 comments (25 topical, 0 editorial)

Menu
· create account
· How to use the board
· FAQs
· search the board
· Google search the board
· Old Otherpower Board

Login
Make a new account
Username:
Password:

Powered by Scoop
You must be a registered user to post here. It's easy and free, and the link is on the upper right side of your page.
All trademarks and copyrights on this page are owned by their respective companies. Postings are owned by the poster, but may be deleted or moved at the ADMIN's sole discretion. The Rest © 2003 Forcefield.
You can Email the board ADMIN here. PLEASE include the username you signed up with!