The 34-pole PM-generator is described in public report KD 580 and it makes use of a stator with 36 slots. It has 34 * 36 / 2 = 612 preference positions per revolution. I have not built this generator. However, I have built a 22-pole PM-generator using a stator with 24 slots. This generator has 22 * 24 / 2 = 264 preference positions per revolution. If the armature is rotated slowly, one feels a light fluctuation of the sticking torque. The number of preference positions for a 34-pole PM-generator is a factor 612 / 264 = 2.318 higher than for a 22-pole PM-generator and therefore the preference positions will be almost gone for a 34-pole generator. So I expect that there will be no starting problems for a 34-pole PM-generator if the generator is used in combination with a windmill rotor with a low starting torque coefficient. This is one reason why report KD 580 is made public and why report KD 553, in which the tests with the 22-pole generator are described, is not made public. The other reason is that the 22-pole generator was developed in co-operation with an Indian company and that therefore it is confidential.
It might be that people don't know where to start if they want to study my KD-reports. I advise to start with the reports which give general information and one can best take the following sequence:
1) Note: Developing procedure of a range of wind turbines (1 page, at the bottom of the list of KD-reports).
2) KD 378: Basic knowledge about electrical, chemical, mechanical, potential and kinetic energy to understand literature about the generation of energy by small windmills (15 pages).
3) KD 35: Rotor design and matching for horizontal axis wind turbines (62 pages) + KD 196: Questions and answers about KD 35 (12 pages).
4) KD 485: Safety systems for small wind turbines which turn the rotor out of the wind at high wind speeds (24 pages).
5) KD 341: Development of the permanent magnet (PM) generators of the VIRYA windmills (14 pages).
6) Manual of electricity generating windmill VIRYA-1.36 (15 pages).
7) KD 571: Development of an 8-pole, 3-phase axial flux permanent magnet generator for the VIRYA-1.36 windmill -------, design report of the rotor ----- (19 pages).
In the reference of each of these reports you find other KD-reports which give detailed information about a certain subject.
I get many questions from people who want to build vertical axis wind turbines but I don't like those windmills. The reasons why, are explained in KD 215 and KD 601 for Darrieus rotors, in KD 416 for drag machines, in KD 417 for the rotating blade turbine and in KD 599 for Savonius rotors. If people still want to build them after reading these reports, I wish them all luck but I don't want to spend time in discussions about VAWT's.