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mroy0404

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CNC Machined 61" Dia Wind Turbine
« on: June 02, 2012, 06:59:20 PM »
Here are afew pic's of the turbine I have been working on this past spring. All of this was CNC Machined on a Doosan 2000sy 6 axis Lathe.
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Re: CNC Machined 61" Dia Wind Turbine
« Reply #1 on: September 03, 2013, 07:15:50 AM »
was it ever found out what this nice item of garden art actually produced in watts ?




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Re: CNC Machined 61" Dia Wind Turbine
« Reply #2 on: September 19, 2013, 12:20:20 AM »
I'm wondering why it has only three blades? Why not 7 or 11?

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Re: CNC Machined 61" Dia Wind Turbine
« Reply #3 on: September 19, 2013, 08:56:48 AM »
The money shot right there.I bet that took a while to wind out.  ;)


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Re: CNC Machined 61" Dia Wind Turbine
« Reply #4 on: September 19, 2013, 11:28:32 AM »
I'm wondering why it has only three blades? Why not 7 or 11?

Because the more blades you run, the slower it turns and more power is eaten up by drag.  It actually has 5 blades though.

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Re: CNC Machined 61" Dia Wind Turbine
« Reply #5 on: September 19, 2013, 12:22:14 PM »
nice work....whats the specs on it..?
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Re: CNC Machined 61" Dia Wind Turbine
« Reply #6 on: September 19, 2013, 03:08:12 PM »
Judging by the GM style alternator core I would say dismal performance until winds hit 30mph.

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Re: CNC Machined 61" Dia Wind Turbine
« Reply #7 on: September 19, 2013, 03:14:37 PM »
especially with 5 blades, nice work though. it may need the 5 blades to break cog and startup with that neo rotor, also going to have quite a bit of core loss with that gm lamination and the neos.

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Re: CNC Machined 61" Dia Wind Turbine
« Reply #8 on: September 20, 2013, 06:25:32 AM »
this machine appeared for sale on ebay a while back - the seller was very quick responding to me until I asked about the output, all I shown was the usual open circuit volts/RPM meaningless graph

more surface area is needed to get it spinning, but it's that same surface area that will stop it reaching a high enough RPM to produce any really useful output - alt based turbines need to be screaming around

yard art, very nice yard art