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You’ve managed to gather all the parts you will be utilizing for your wind turbine, you have also estimated your wind turbine expenditure, and you are now fully determined to construct your own windmill. How do you assemble all the items you have gathered?

Here’s how you do it in 9 easy steps:

Phase 1: Procure or buy all the components on eBay or from any nearby hardware shop ” DC power motor, metal sheets, PVC pipe, hub, tower, deep-cycle battery, charge controller, dump load, AC inverter, and sufficient nuts and bolts to connect three blades to your tower.

Phase 2: To start with, cut the PVC pipe into a 3 ft long piece, and then cut the pipe into four pieces ” 3 will be used for blades, and one shall be a spare. You will have to shape each blade so that one side tapers into a 2 point. The blades should of approximately 6 ft long ” they could be smaller, but surely not smaller than 4 ft in which case they may not spin easily.

Part 3: Now, make holes on the narrow end of your blades so that their positions align with the holes in your hub.

Phase 4: Now, attach a coupling to the middle of your hub and join the 3 blades to this hub, attaching the hub itself to the motor shaft – you should be able to do this with 12″ by 2″ steel bars.

Stage 5: Adjust the blades and the hub neatly by marking each blade with a number and test spinning them to ensure that the same blade does not position itself at the base every time ” if so, then you may have to scrape some metal off your connecting steel bars.

Phase 6: Smoothly slide the DC motor shaft into the hole in the middle of your hub (or drill one if it’s not there already). Make sure the hub is securely fastened.

Part 7: Now, look at your tail shaft to figure out the height and make a hole through the top part of the tower, above where the tail shaft’s upper end will go.

Phase 8: Then, chop the actual tail shaft from your metal which should be approximately 3-4 ft long and attach it to the tower with a flat bracket.

Part 9: Now, connect your DC motor to the charge controller, connect the charge controller to the battery, connect the battery to the AC inverter, and then connect that to your utility box. The type of wire you need to use depends on the materials you’ve used – ask your electrician for help if all else fails.

This is just a simple introduction to DIY wind turbines, but with just these instructions you should be able to start making your own.

The wind turbine described above should generate 300-500 watts of power, assuming that your mean wind velocity is a minimum of 10-20 mph.