Make This Thousand Watt Wind Turbine

In the late 1800's, an electromagnetic pulse from the sun fried telegraph wires and some of the early electricity driven public utilities, even starting a few fires, but certainly shutting down broadband communications across the nation.

Since then, our electrical grid has gotten more complex and we are desperately reliant upon it, but it has not gotten any more robust in terms of surviving local or large scale interruptions.

Several recent interruptions by storms on the east coast – in every season – has shown us how vulnerable our electrical grid is.

If it were to do go down – long-term – what would you do?

This concept is just one of many to augment living off grid or having an emergency back-up for when our grid does finally give out.

On the next page we outline the basics for making a Thousand Watt Wind Turbine.

 

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98 Comments

  2. Daniel R Stricker said:

    I think you could probably use Patrick Allen,for the wind, then you’d be all good sailing,with your windmill too,no problems, and he could be there to save your life too,Don Dravis Sr.

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  6. Joseph Burns said:

    Dude seriously screw the fact that all your video post take you to a page that leads you to another page that requires you to click a link to a third page and sometimes even more pages… Just post the freaking video

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  9. Richard Draper said:

    No one has realized that any AC power it generates would not be of any standard frequency like the 60 Hz power your household appliances require. Frequency would vary with wind speed. One can work around this by converting it to DC then using a DC to AC inverter to produce 60 Hz AC. It ends up being more costly than described here.

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  10. מיכאל חנה ישראל said:

    my solar panels are 400 watts… they are enough except for rainy days… all ani would need then would be one of these on a windy day.

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  11. Michael Tankersley said:

    Great, a 1kw is all you need for portable pc/DVD/sw and trickle small batteries, especially during hard times.

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  20. Billy Twowolf said:

    I have several wind powered ones
    But I also have solar and hydro
    They will charge a bank if batteries and that’s the whole point
    You don’t run anything on your charging source

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  26. Carl Kinser said:

    If you can get me a DIY wind generator that has enough power to run my Keurig, I’ll look into it, lol!

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  38. Aaron Patrick Wood said:

    Nice. Is it phased in a 60hrtz cycle? At 240v constant? Or will the voltage and frequency change as wind does? Best use dc and then convert with a normal acdc inverter. I guess it produces dc, that would be normal and proper.

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  39. Eric Beatty said:

    House voltage is meter in kilowatts. (thousand watts). An average house uses 1000 to 1500 kilowatts a month. (That’s 1000 x 1000 watts per month) does it pride 1500 kilowatts a month?

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  40. David Webb said:

    “Thousand Watts” Lol ! You mean a thousand watts a DAY !

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  41. Evan Fuller said:

    I’ve read about this one before. It’s on instructables. This one he wired in three phase.

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