| Ok, my wife's not thrilled.
I thought this was gonna be easy. Well, okay, not easy, but at least do-able.
I started constructing my own PMA / VAWT that I thought would be a nice project to get my feet wet.
I took the 6 coil assembly out of a box fan (that's the part that upset the wife) and strapped it on a horizontal plane to the end of an upright 3x3 of Poplar that had a 1-1/4" hole drilled in it. I glued my magnets to the crosssings of a Nice Bontrager rear wheel, put a 15t cassette ring on the freehub body do it would not botttom out and then ropped the wheel into the opening of the poplar.
Ok, so I've got 1-2mm of clearance between my magnets and my coils. I unlinked the coils from one another and tied every other one to each other.
My plan was to put 1/2 of a 4" pvc (18" in length) to the outside of the rim to get it to spin.
Still, I thought if I spun it by hand, I shoud get Something. I get nothing. It looks cool, but that's aboout it.
My problem is mostlikely in the fact that the coils are lame and thin or that I wired incorrectly.
Any thoughts for this newbie from this poor discription?
Thanks. Enjoying as a lurker for a few months now.
Mr. F |
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