How to Build an Electric Generator - Learn What you need to build an Electric Generator at Home
Author: Elizabeth Hind
I was looking to find out How to build an Electric Generator. I had been searching for plans or blueprints that would show me how to build an electric generator myself at home. I found exactly what I was looking for and now I am powering my home with my own electric generator.
This was exactly what I was needing. The reason I was looking for information on how to build an electric generator was because of the power companies. It just seems that every 2 or 3 months they keep putting the price of electric up. I was just fed up of paying more and more for the power I started to look for alternatives.
With this electric generator the good thing is there is no additional fuel or power needed. It runs on perpetual motion. Once the generator is started it runs itself on magnetic power. The magnets in the generator use the magnet force to power the generator itself. This is completely renewable energy which again means I am doing my bit for the environment while still saving money.
If you want to learn how to build an electric generator then these plans are what you are looking for. They are easy to follow and if I can follow them believe me anyone can. As a benefit there is a full 60 day money back guarantee that comes with them so if you are not entirely happy with the plans then you can get back in touch with the company and they will issue you with a full refund.
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Why can’t you build an electric car with a generator like the volt yourself?
Everyone is making a big deal about the volt with its 53kW generator, which if you don’t know is huge! Anyway people have been building electric cars for years, decades. Why couldn’t you take a large electric motor couple it to the rear wheel of a pickup truck, line the bed with batteries and a large generator and away you go?
How do you calculate how big of a generator you would need?
Seems to me like it would be pretty easy to increase mpg and build a more efficient car. What am I missing in this line of thinking???
Linlyons – why do you assume the people workign on hybrids, etc. in the auto indistry are giving us the most efficient/best design possible?
Do you not know the auto companies hold hundreds of patents for more efficient engines, carburators, etc. Patents which could raise mpg.
You way too trusting of large corporations to keep your interests ahead of your theirs.
I suspect your the stupid one.
How can i build my own electric generator?
Essentially I want to create a very small windmill, which wont cost too much, and will have some wires that I can hook up to a a lightbulb or a meter.
Anyone know where to buy something like this? Or where I could get the materials to construct it?
thanks a bunch
When building an electric generator which is the bigger factor in the use of the magnets?
I need to build 2 very basic generators for a IISEF project i have in the works, and i need to know which is more important to consider when looking ate magnets.
1) Is the pull force the most important
or
2) Is the area the magnet covers (and therefor the magnetic field area) more important.
I want to build an electric wind generator?
I want to build my own wind generator how do i do it?
electric motor and some fan blades will do it.
But it’s much easier to just buy an electric fan for $20.
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I would say they both are important. You’ll see, when you apply more force to the generator, then it’s acceleration will be greater, therefore, the speed of the rotor will be faster and you will get more voltage. Now, the area the magnet covers is important as well because the more magnetic lines strike the wires, the more electricity you get.
Depending on the kind of generator you are using, then the speed of the rotor will have different reactions. For example, if you are using a triphasic generator of synchronisation, your speed will determine the frequency of your phases.
Hope this helps.
Well theoretically you could do away with the battery completely: just let the engine drive a generator and use that to power a motor that drives the wheels. That gives you what’s called an electric drive. Locomotives use something similar.
The idea of the Volt is a bit more subtle: apparently they want the car driven from the battery completely, and they’ll use a combination of regenerative braking and the gasoline engine, which would run at a fixed rate at its most efficient speed, to keep the battery charged.
This is easy on the gasoline engine, and it thus requires little fuel. But it’s enormously tough on the battery, which must be under continual heavy charge and discharge. There’d be a lot of heat generated, and the chemistry in the battery would be easily contaminated.
53kW is indeed big for a generator but it’s not so big for a car: it comes out to about 71 horsepower. Presumably the electric motor has something like the same rating, though perhaps it’s higher and the battery can intermittently put out something in excess of 100 hp. But GM has been having no luck with the battery. (This is no sin: nobody else has, either.)
There’s a fairly good article on the Volt in the latest Atlantic magazine. Check the library.
Go to the local automobile scrap yard, and find a working ‘alternator’.
Fasten the blades of your windmill to the shaft of the alternator, and voila, 12VDC output.
You might want to gear it up or down with various sized pulleys and drive belts etc.
If the alternator is too big and heavy to turn with your windmill, you might be able to salvage a small motor from a vaccuum cleaner or child’s toy. Almost any DC motor can be used as a generator.
Lastly, you could fasten a magnet perpendicular to a spinning rod (pencil or broomstick), and place coils of wire on either side of the magnet. As the magnet spins past the coil, it will create a voltage.