I just got my first mill up on a test stand last night and of course the wind was non existant. This morning It was gusty but it wouldn't spin.
The generator is an ametek 36 V
The blades are PVC cut from 4" green sewer pipe 60" diameter rotor.
At this point it doesn't pivot into the wind I've been turning it manually. The tail paint was still drying and I don't have part of the mast to allow it to turn.
the first thing I noticed this morning was that the blades spun kinda when I turned the entire thing around and made it a downwind... Looking online this morning thats because I put the hub on backwords and the blades are facing the wrong way. I'll fix that when I get home tonight.
Even turned downwind it still didn't want to start spinning much. I currently have a 12V backup light wired directly off of the generator. It does make the generator conciderably more difficult to start spinning by hand. I'm wondering could this load be stalling it? If it is does this mean when I track down some diodes and hook up to a 12V battery that will also stall the unit?
I'm still having tons of fun and learning a lot at this point.