Got my 12 footer..

[TomW]

I have been working with DanB on getting one of their new 12 foot machines since early this year.

They built this one at their August workshop for us. It has been a kind of "display model" since and has been moved around and shown as an example. Well this last weekend it made its last road trip and is here and being prepped for installation.

Man this thing is considerably beefier than the older 10 foot Volvo based unit I already have flying.

This is the Rotor. It measures about 15.25 inches across. It came assembled so I don't have photos of the magnet rotors from the business side. The stator is shown, also since it is already mounted.

Side view of the entire head assembly. The acorn nuts are removed so I can squirt some paint on everything to help offset discoloration and rust streaking from the iron parts.

The tail boom.

The prop. DanB assembled it here before he left so I would know how it goes together. I scored the top hub plate with grinder divots and the prop with shallow drill holes so I can reassemble it correctly after the paint is on everything.

This is a photo DanF took of it fully assembled after the workshop, I think. Not sure who the fellow is in the photo.

Just wanted to share as it comes together. It is a fairly big project for us and it is finally coming together. Time for TomW to get motivated before winter clamps down here.

As usual, I have lots of high resolution photos in my gallery over at pics.ww.com for this project:

http://pics.ww.com/v/TomW/WindFarm/12footer/

And my main gallery page is a fair record of all the stuff we are doing here:

http://pics.ww.com/v/TomW/

It has never been our plan to go off grid but I believe with bthis new turbine, a bit more battery and another inverter to stack for 240 AC for the well pump we could actually live quite well with no grid.

Thanks, Dan and everyone involved as well as the users on this forum!

Tom

[ghurd]

Split all that firewood,

and now you will almost be able to go with all electric heat.

G-

[TomW]

G-;

Life is funny that way dontcha know.

Tom

[DamonHD]

I'm suffering terrible turbine envy.  Having difficulty keeping my mere 100Wh/day server going with a (tiny) garden full of solar panels...

That guy in the photo with those sharp bladey things isn't wearing a suit so he must be a terrrrrist: call the police!  (What you call them is up to you...)

Rgds

Damon

[Jerry]

Hi Tom.

Thats a zilion years away from that first Garbogen hey.

Can't waite to see it on your tower.

Happy days.

Jerry

[Volvo farmer]

I want you to know that I put my top set of guy wires 6' down from the top of my tower... Just in case you decide you don't want to install that thing.

:-)

[TomW]

VF;

Duly noted.

Tom

[Jon Miller]

Tom, looking good there, that is one serious turbine, any information on specs?

Should you have the pictures on the FL for prosperity?

Regards

[TomW]

Jon;

Should you have the pictures on the FL for prosperity?

My theory is ww.com will likely be technically viable longer than FL. Therefore being posted there will cover "posterity". Look how many issues there were about pictures recently for a real world example.

I post stuff on ww.com for friends and family Fieldlines posts just reference what I already have online and when I used FL for pictures friends and family often had issues accessing them. Since you asked.

Tom

[sweetwind]

Congrats Tom,

how much power it produces now?

[willib]

It looks like a beauty Tom.

Much luck with it.

PS That fellow looks very proud!

[bj]

   Thanks for the share Tom, looks like a very robust machine.  And as usual, the post gave me a motivational shot just when it was needed.

[TomW]

how much power it produces now?

Big fat goose egg [zero] because it is still in parts in my garage. Not been up to finishing the tower guy anchor metal work lately so my revised goal is Spring and if it happens sooner, GREAT and if not so be it!

OK, 4th try and if I get that goofy upgrading error this time I am done with this forum. For good. If this posts then it finally worked. Gets old fighting this busted site and no relief in sight.

Tom