Here is a bunch of happy wind turbine builders with their freshly made wind turbine - doesn't it look good?
First job this morning was to remove the rotors from the mould and they came out well, no problems, they just need a little cleaning up to remove some excess resin from the back of the rotors.
Then we began to assemble the blades, setting them on a workbench to measure the blade tip distances. The setting out happened quite quickly and was not too tricky. After this the blade assembly was drilled through on the drill press. All three blades look well, the cedar was lovely to work with, not one single knot in the three blades.
The rotors and stator were set up on the frame which was firmly held in the vice. The wires were checked with the multimetre as the rotors were turned and everything was ok to proceed.
The job of wiring came next and fixing the rectifiers to the heat sink.
The blades and tail were then attached to the turbine. The blades were balanced inside the workshop so that we did not have to worry about any breezes and then everyone stood back to admire the fruits of the weeks labour.
When we were finished admiring the new turbine we went for lunch and then headed off in convoy to visit Iliocht's hillside home as he was kind enough to invite us to have a look at his recently refurbished 2.4m wind turbine. It was great for the course participants to be able to see and hear a working turbine and also to have a look at the battery bank, charge controller and inverter setup. Thanks Iliocht.
