Just started my next project designing and building a new 10 foot low speed, high torque wind turbine today, March 17th 2016, St. Patty’s day. This unit will be almost like the one that I have here on site, but will be set a little higher off the ground than mine. I had the blades made over a year ago, but am just now able to start working on the project. Did not have the rest of the assembly either until less than a month ago. The weather was not exactly good for building outside until just lately either. So lots of things are lining up so I can complete the project over the next few weeks. This is a customer order one and will run an assembly that they purchase or that I may be building for them in the near future. I am going to build at least one for mine and another one to sell will be built at the same time. I am going to use some rare earth magnets. I think I will be using 9 coils, 3 series of 3 coils and wire it in a 3 phase configuration. The more coils that I have in series, the lower speed that I can use to get my required voltages on the phases. The coils will be placed in 3 sets of 3 at 120 degrees offsets to get the proper 3 phase outputs. More magnets will be required but I can use a much slower RPM drive for the turbine

New 10 foot wind turbine in progress
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