Hannu, the generator is a Hugh Piggot design straight from his book.
It has 300mm (12") discs, 12 magnets/ disc although they are actually wedge shape 40x20x50mm 4mm thick doubled up. It has 10 coils of 0.9mm wire bifiliar wound for 135 turns. Wired as per Hugh's directions every coil start connected to a star point with each end of matched pairs to a 35 amp bridge rectifier.
I added a steady bearing to the lower part of the pipe over pipe piviot, as it was just one more wobbly bit.
It has a stub axel and trailer hub as the bearing, we have the allthread long enough so as the blades are held apart from the rotors. This allows us to adjust the tracking very easily, another learning. Next one I will not use a trailer hub.
When we first raised it we had fine gap and were not happy so lowered it and added 1mm to the gap. This did not seem to make any difference to the cut in speed 185 rpm @ 25V.
We opted for a different blade design this time as the others were very noisy, not that I mind. I have industrial deafness and like to hear them anyway. We seem to have jagged it right, tsr 6 which as Flux said in an earlier post, is probally the reason it's quite.
I calculated the cut in from one test coil hand held in the rotor, and got it right. It's not a fast machine my calculation have it at 264 rpm at 1 kw (40 amps @ 25v), or 346 rpm at 2 kw if it gets there. Fortunatly I can't be proved wrong my speed indication, (monitoring the ac waveform) goes to hash once cut in speed is reached.
So there we have it, its a fantastic design Hugh, we have modified some points but....
I look forward to the day we are adressing him as Sir Hugh Piggot, the basic design makes wind power available to most people wherever they be, through the use of available parts(his intention I believe).
Oh did I say Grant's (Trivio here) lathe and milling machine arived at my place yesterday, he is moving and needed to "store" them, awsom I always wanted a lathe but could never quite justify the cost. Now these are no normal machines 3 men and a dog struggled to unload them even with the platform on the back of the moving truck.
allan down under(drooling at the new machinery)