Make Your Homemade Wind Turbine Step by Step and Take Advantage of Wind Energy

Make Your Homemade Wind Turbine Step by Step and Take Advantage of Wind Energy

Make your Homemade wind turbine step by step

Having domestic solar energy systems (or considering having them) is becoming increasingly common. However, the same does not happen with wind. Would you like to start taking advantage of this energy source? If so, we explain how to make a homemade wind turbine up to 12 volts, which you can install in the patio or on the terrace of your home.

Materials.

wind turbine home materials

The Materials that We will Need for this Project are:

A motor. You can reuse it from old electronic equipment, such as an old printer, a video or a scanner. If you do not have any at hand, you can buy it online.

PVC cutter.

A piece of PVC pipe between 7 and 10 cm wide and around 2'5 long.

Another piece of PVC pipe of the same diameter, but about 7.5 cm long.

A piece of PVC pipe 2.5 cm in diameter and 2.5 cm. long.

A piece in T for the connection of PVC pipes of around 2'5 cm wide.

Piece for joining PVC pipes.

Plastic (for example, the box of an old CD).

A flange for the support.

22 AWG cable (0.6 mm diameter).

Wire strippers

Aspas.

Instructions.

First step: Prepare all the pieces.

Cut the PVC pipes so they have the indicated size. Remove the ring from the pipes as this will prevent them from turning easily.

Take the motor and wrap it in electrical tape until it fits into the connector part of the pipes. Next, cut and strip the ends of the cable making sure you have enough extra material.

Split the piece of plastic you had, in this case the CD case, and make sure you leave it clean of any part that sticks out. Now, with the 2'5 × 2'5 pipe that you had, make a cut in which you can fit the CD. For this you can use a PVC cutter or a saw.

Second Step: Wiring.

Solder the cable to the motor. In this case, the positive of the engine was welded and marked as negative and the negative as positive since this is going to be used to take energy and not to receive it. Once welded, slide the cable through the T piece, the 7.5 cm pipe, the connecting piece and the other pipe, the 2.5 mm pipe.

Drill a hole in the 2'5 cm pipe and slide the wire through it. Next, connect all the pieces taking care that they do not remain excessively tense, since this would prevent the turbine from turning.

Third step: Fin of the wind turbine.

Connect the CD case to the 2'5 × 2'5 pipe by sliding it into the cut you had previously made. Subsequently, join this pipe with the piece in T.

Fourth Step: Paste and Try.

Prove that everything is well assembled and stick it. Again, try not to tighten too much in this phase because if the pieces are too tight in the generator will not rotate.

Step Five: Check the Results.

As you will see in these videos, if everything went well, your homemade turbine should work exactly like that.

Sixth step: Final suggestions.

In these images you can see several options for the blades of your homemade wind turbine, including a solution made with a plastic bottle. Among all the options, the ones that showed the best results with light winds were the blades acquired in the market, of which four were incorporated into the wind turbine.

As you will also see in the images, you can combine the wind power with the solar by adding a small panel to reinforce the motor and provide extra energy.

Extra Tips

If you need more advice you can get it with this tutorial that will allow you to finish your wind turbine or improve the one you have created to give you the best possible result.

Complete instructions and original project in Instructables .

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