Wind Power

Here's the video which shows you how to measure out the pipe to cut the wind generator blades.

Arguably the most important part of a wind generator is the tower. Without a wind generator tower you will find it very hard to generate any electricity without it.

There are several different types of wind generator towers each of them with their own pro's and cons.

If your family is anything like ours you will want to learn how to build a wind generator because it is just so expensive to buy one! The 1000 watt wind generator we needed for living off the grid costs in excess of $2,500. For this family, and probably yours too, that is a lot of money. A lot of money! We knew we could find a better solution. We finally decided to build our own. Check out this video of a homebuilt wind turbine in action.

I remember our fruitless search for wind turbine plans. We had decided that we wanted to build a wind generator because it would be the most cost effective way for us to generate electricity. When we started looking around for wind turbine plans we found quite a few that looked really good, but the problem was that they were way to complicated for us to read.

Learning how to build wind generators was not that difficult once we found the right construction plans. Finding out what materials to use for the blades, where to get the generator from and how to put it all together proved rather interesting actually.

The main factor that affects how much Renewable Energy that is produced at our home is the weather. If the sun is shining our solar panels are working non-stop to charge our batteries. When the sun isn’t shining that’s a different story.

We built a wind generator to run our off grid home. Finding wind generator plans that we could download now actually proved to be the hardest part of the whole project.

My 12 year old son Andre’ and I had decided that we needed a 1000 watt wind generator. We looked at the price of wind generators and quickly found out that the $2000 price tag was not in our budget. Andre’s and I decided to build one! And we would make a wind generator that was just as good, and looked just as good as commercial models.

This is an update on our report about how to build home wind generators- now we wanted it to look good. When visitors come to our homestead we want them to ask, “ Where did you ‘buy’ your new wind generator?” To which we would reply, “ Oh, we built that ourselves” as confidently as we could muster.