Hard life as usual up here in Buckville. DanF cooked up some cajun jambaliya? - and a rice, and two 'Turduckens' (chicken stuffed in a duck stuffed in a turkey with Cajun sausage between each layer). Other neighbors brought other tasties to go along with it all.
Pretty nice meal to have in the wind turbine shop. He (danF - admin.. whatever) brought it all over on a sled.
More pictures of food...
cookies,... etc. (more pictures of food)
There's a picture of me gathering food...
Rich consuming food.
Morwen cleaing Matt's plate while he consumes bread.
TomH feeding Flash.
We played music for about 5 hours.
Hats off to Seamus. He's a natural.. he's our rhythm section. (notice the tambourine on the floor that he uses)
We got all these cool old milk bottles (16 oz) for Xmas to use as beer bottles in the shop!
They work fine but some people complained about the 'sticky nose' you get when you drink beer from them.
It's a hard life...
Tom White is building a 20' turbine just like mine. Pictured above is one of his magnet rotors.
Finished metal work for a new 20' wind turbine.
Detail from the back side. On mine we made the stator bracket from 3/8" steel and I never put gussets on the 'arms'. This one is quarter inch steel and we put gussets on them. In the end its probably lighter weight and stronger. Also notice the 'box' we built to hold the tail pivot on - it's about the same as mine...
Same thing from the front.
Two little 10' turbines on cute little pallets ready to ship to Tenn.
This is a new stator for Scotties diesel 'mini petter'. The old one still works but were hoping for a bit more power/efficiency. This has 8 coils (basically an 8 phase alternator) - each coil will have its own rectifier. Im hoping for close to 100 amps @ 12 V (1200 rpm) from this one.
There's a picture from an old book I have... for those of you who thought axial flux alternators with adjustable airgaps were a 'new' idea! (this is from the 1890's)
Tom bolts his back magnet rotor to the hub. It's always entertaining to watch people do this with steel wrenches so close to strong magnets.
Wes helped Tom lower the front magnet rotor (on a machine this size it's actually quite a project and takes a fair bit of time with jacking screws, a rubber hammer... lots of patience etc...)
So there we have it - last few weeks adventures anyhow! Happy new year.
