My first wind generator

[Speo]

This summer I spent a couple of weeks in Romanian Alps where I built my first wind generator using an Ametek30 motor.

Here are some pictures and some comments.

Florin

[RatOmeter]

Nice effort there.  Did you get a lot of wind there.  I'm curious as to how many Watts you were able to generate with the Ametek motor.

On another topic, nobody has ever accused me a being a good webpage designer, but that dark grey font on a black background is devilishly hard to read.

[Speo]

Thanks for the reply.

I didn't make (yet) any measurements to find out how many watts was making.

That will be the next step.

About that dark gray on black background : where did you see it ? I was checking and I couldn't find any black background...Maybe it shows different in different browsers ? What kind of browser are you using ?

Thanks again,

Florin

[hvirtane]

Looks really good.

Which kinds of tools did you use

to make the propeller?

Which kind of airfoil did

you use?

Have you counted RPM during the use?

- Hannu

[cevonk]

Very nice work!  I think the tail has fine visual proportion, and the blades are very well made.  Your website is nicely constructed, too.

[Speo]

For the propeller I used a hand-saw, an angle grinder like this one with high granularity sandpaper, and a palm sander like these ones

The airfoil is similar with this one and was designed using that spreadsheet.

No, I didn't count the RPM.

Florin

[RatOmeter]

My browser is Mozilla Firefox 0.9.3

Here's what it looked like to me (with a little of the text highlighted for readability)

[Speo]

Sorry for that, guys.

Sorry ... Sorry !

Florin

[RatOmeter]

I tried it in Internet Explorer and it was fine.

You're blades look really nice, despite the knotholes.  I like the shape.

I also like the location.  It looks like a beautiful place to be.

[RatOmeter]

I know I'm getting to far off topic here, but you can check your HTML files for validity by going to http://validator.w3.org  It couldn't process your 'location.html' file until I forced the character set to iso-8859-2 (central europe).  

Here's the analysis:

http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2F69.194.245.17%2Fmorisca%2Flocation.html&charset=i
so-8859-2+%28Central+Europe%29

[dconn]

Hi Florin,

I couldn't get to your website - when I went to the link I saw a notice about being redirected but then nothing happened.

I'm very interested to see a wood sanding disk for an angle grinder - I've never seen/noticed these in the hardware shop but it should very interesting.

All the best,

Derek

[ghurd]

Mine (page down load) came out OK.

But the movies (both) only had about 1/2 of a rotation and some 'jibberish' (garbage) sound. I'll write it off as SAE to metric conversion.

The mill is better than anything I have done, so...

   Great Job!

G-

[fremusg]

Nice generator.I am working on something very similar.I have notice the Canadian flag in background of one of the pictures.

Could you give me your email adress? I am from Romania too.

Tx Remus

[Speo]

Thanks again, I know that checking with w3.org is a good practice, and i'll do it in the future. Probably I will modify these pages after the long week-end.

Florin

[Speo]

Sure,

florin@rogers.com

Florin

[Speo]

Hi Derek,

I'm sorry you couldn't get to the web site, please try again, I am sure that was something temporarily.

The wood sanding disk for an angle grinder is a disk made of plastic which replaces the metal cutting disk. On top of this disk you can put a sandpaper sheet with large glass granules, and here you go ! At 10000 RPM, that sandpaper is "eating" the wood.

Florin

[Speo]

If that link is not working, please try this one

Florin

[juiced]

If people view your page with AOL optimiser on dial-up, or other similar 'optimising' software, it will do the color switch. I have the same problem with my site.