My first one is up. Murphy has it that we had no wind while I was at the site with the gen up so I will have to come back to you with specs. For now bits from the building story.
I have it up on a wooden pole with a swivel foot
The top and bottom are bolted with 16mm threaded rods and it is secured with 10mm wire ropes. 4 of which each is 13 foot away and 13 foot up
I have it so low since we are on the mountain and lightning is not to be called any more than I need to. We usually have lots of wind anyway, so I hope it will be ok.
I bench tested with a very rudimentary set-up, so the figures are less than enough, but at least I know it works.
I was unsure of the stator's ability not to flex and scratch so I over designed the stator brackets.
We are in a nature area and I wanted as soft a look as possible hence the tail design. Because I was deviating, I also added the small light flag (in the circle) to see wind direction. As she flies now, she is about 5-10% out of line, so I will enlarge the eagle.
The blades are 7 foot and made according to Ed's calculator from solid Marfin.
Perhaps others also use this but to me it was a bit of a new trick to use the bosch
by not holding it tightly but to let it run side to side in a rasping fashion rather than to merely cut guide slots. It worked fine!
Belt stander afterwards left what I am quite happy with.
As I say the figures will follow over time as I can test, but before I get to that I will also still have to finish the anemometer I have started building.
Thanks to all of you for the valuable help you gave me. Not only in direct answers provided to me but also in sharing the list where I read just about everything I could since last July when I discovered the list.
I would not be fair if I do not recognize my chief engineer on the project. He shared each little task with the same eager energy seen in the pic below. Thanks buddy! Your support really (really!) made it all that much more fun :-)
