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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Thank god someone smart.
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.
Ha ha!
Survival mode wouldn’t need electrical power.
Makin’ one!
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
Brian Jorgensen
Kyle Gibson
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.
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.
Great, a 1kw is all you need for portable pc/DVD/sw and trickle small batteries, especially during hard times.
Rob Patzkowsky
Mikey Forrest
Cool!
Danyel Therese Stock show Travis Stock this !!!!
Ok 🙂
Yes lmfao
This is so much crap ,what a bunch of junk!
Tip Alexander
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
Vernon IV Greathouse
Don Dravis Sr. Lmao!!!!!
You just made my day! Im still laughing. …
Jeff Pynnonen
How many amps?
If you can get me a DIY wind generator that has enough power to run my Keurig, I’ll look into it, lol!
Raymond Costilla
Eugene II Andrews James Wright
How much amperage does it make
Dave Burch
Eva Coriell Freddie Coriell
We had broadband in the late 1800’s?
Anita Marratt James needs to check this site out.
Hmm
Will do Honey Thanks! <3
Aaron Patrick Wood
Hi. Is it at all possible to add some schematics for this please
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.
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?
“Thousand Watts” Lol ! You mean a thousand watts a DAY !
I’ve read about this one before. It’s on instructables. This one he wired in three phase.
Dakota Jones
Brandy Renaker Perkins
Breann Fortenberry
Adam Legler a scaled down version for El Coache?
Steven Ball
Mikey Forrest