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hiker:
same as my old motor conversion--i used harddrive mags and rewiered the outer coils.

the picture has some lighter wire in it -i sense  have rewired with thicker wire-

puts out over 20+ amps hooked to my old 5/8s hp gas engine-dosent really have to be running that fast at all..great little defusalater charger[single phase]

nothing to lose:
Curious.

Had you thought about a junk trailer house as a large wind tunnel?

 I have been doing cleaning and repairs/demo work to a junk trailer house here to make into my shop. Get my lathe into the back room now and I can either put the wall back on or install a door :)

 (Darned truck with the lathe/mill in it won't start now, Lucky it's a boxed truck)
So anyway while working on stuff down there I got to thinking, would a gutted trailer house work for a wind tunnel? Remove inside walls, board up outside wall windows. This one is about 7-8' ceilings and 12' wide 65' long. If squared was wanted an 8' wide tunnel would leave nearly a 4' hallway beside it. Only need to build 1 wall, most of the materials already there when ripping out inside walls.
Just curious about it, I don't currantly have any wind tunnel plans, but if something like that would work farily easy often old trailer houses can be picked up for around $1,000 and moving costs. I could have bought another junk one a while back for $500 but did not want it then and no time to mess with getting it. Now I wish I had gotten it for parts, oh well.
Just thought I'd ask, maybe later you'll want a bigger tunnel like 8'x12'x70' and the thought might help a bit?

hvirtane:
Really good.
Congratulations for

the really great job.
I've been silent for a while,

because of some problems of

Net connections; I had only

now the possibility to see

your results.
What about RPM?

How fast does the machine go?
- Hannu

colej:



Ed,

After reading about your wind tunnel test I got the idea of linking the turbines and I came up with this idea of three turbines linked as sort of a planetary gear.

All three would support the center rotor hub linked by chain and sprocket, as each turbine begins to rotate, it would drive the main rotor.

My question to you is.


: If this could work do you think it could create more torque to run a more powerful alternator?
: would the "spoiled" air coming off the windward turbine be to turbulent for the leeward ones?


I remember seeing somewhere a Savonius rotor that was over two stories tall (old picture from the 40's or 50's maybe)So how big do you think is practical for a Lenz2?
I live in an area of texas that is catagorized as "wind poor for economic development" and have really taken interest in your design as it seems the only probably design that can take advantage of my area.
Great work!

oneirondreamer:
It looks like this thread is not active, however I'm wondering if anyone is aware of, and can share any 3 party testing of this design?    It looks like the wind tunnel study was done improperly (too much blockage for accurate results).

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