Build Electric Wind Generator or alternator wind generator
Author: Ben Pace
Installing an electric wind generator for home use is a topic that many people are now interested in. According to the U.S. dept of Energy, the cost of wind driven technology has come down by 80% during the last three decades, making it an affordable and widely available option to many individual homeowners.
The initial investment for a wind energy system may look expensive. However, when you look at the long term savings, down to paying nothing for electricity, the economics for an electric wind generator are promising. A person can spend as little as a 0.00 up to many thousands, depending on their goal. The actual monetary return on your investment (ROI) depends on many factors, including the wind generating system you choose, utility costs in your region, your naturally available wind resources, and the applications you use your wind generated electricity for.
Everyone may not be the perfect candidate for a wind power system. You need to consider several factors before investing in wind turbine technology, either from scratch or buying a kit or having a professional install the system.
What are your goals, to be totally independent from the power grid or are you merely interested in supplementing your existing power supply? You need to live in an area that gets a minimum of 9 mph of continuous wind to be able to
support a wind generator. Keep in mind that while wind is free and renewable, it is not always available in most places.
Remember to have a backup plan to when your wind generator is not producing power. As a backup to the power stored in your batteries, consider solar, thermal or possible relying on the grid.
Secondly, if wind generated power might be your only source for power, before making the decision consider if it is feasible or more economical to have to rely on your local utility. Depending on your land and if you are in a rural or
isolated location, it could cost you from ,000 and up to have the utility company run power access to your home or resort property. Your venture to generate power with a wind generator could change as you consider the initial cost.
The other alternative for your participation in wind generated energy is to choose to connect to your local electrical grid, while providing some or all of your own power from wind. This may be a good choice if the purchased electricity in your area is expensive or unreliable, or not so good a choice if your local utility has prohibitive costs involved for you to connect to their service.
Your local building codes or subdivision building codes are other considerations to keep in mind if you are thinking of building some type of wind turbine to generate electricity. Before taking the first step toward building a wind turbine,
make sure that it is legal to erect a tower or roof mounted tower in your area.
Research is the key word for the potential investor in wind turbine electrical systems. Power and price vary differently depending on what you are considering. Manufacturers should be able to provide you with case studies or statistics telling you the return you can expect for the capacity in your area. Thoroughly understand the technology of wind generated electricity before considering a wind generator for home use and the best location on your property.
In conclusion, the decision to install a wind generator is an excellent one but don't forget to have a backup source of
power for windless days.
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If you are using a cell to provide your router with Internet and you provide power to your router and computer with a generator, that is OK. I recommend some kind of power stabilizer like a UPS because some generators don’t have the smoothest output.
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Can you connect wifi to an electric generator to power it, if the cell phone network is still active?
First, your teacher shouldn’t have laughed. She should have explained.
The problem with your suggestion is the same as the problem with all perpetual motion machines, to date. Energy loss through friction.
Imagine the battery driving your generator, and the generator, in a perfectly insulated box. The total energy within the box will never change, because energy can neither be created nor destroyed. But, the form the energy takes will change.
As current flows from the battery to drive the generator, whatever you do with the output of the generator, energy will be dissipated in the form of heat, in the conductors, in turbulence of the air and so forth.
Eventually, all the energy will be transformed from chemical energy in the plates of the battery, etc, into heat, and the system will stop.
ps – when I was a sophomore at MIT, I invented a “perpetual motion” machine based on interchanging static electricity with mechanical movement. My professor absolutely did not laugh at me. He be came very interested in my reasoning, and worked me through the design until I came to realize the basic problem myself. That, is teaching.
hth, Bert
can someone explain this to me: why can’t you use some of the power from a electric generator to power it?
just divert some of the power to the battery it gets it’s power from using a amplifier to boost it.Asked a teacher once she laughed & tried to tell me why it won’t work by i didn’t understand her.Maybe after all these years somebody can help me.Only got to 7 grade. have bad learning problem.gave up and quit.
Can a generator be used in conjunction with batteries to power an electric motor for making a vehicle move?
The generator(s) could be run off an axle/drive shaft of the same vehicle to extend the range from 150 miles out to maybe 500+ miles without having to stop for a recharge. If it isn’t possible to power generators off the drive shaft or axle, then could a tiny diesel motor be used to run the generator. This would be used on a vehicle the size of an average family car or small pick-up
Recovery of kinetic energy from a moving vehicle is termed regenerative braking, this is part of the reason for the efficiency of hybrids,
Most electric motors automatically generate electric when not driving.
The range of modern cars is easily over 200 miles and can be recharged in 10 minutes. Why do you want a 500+ mile range without a short break?
The tZero has the option of towing a small generator if required, and you don’t need to carry the extra weight and complexity around with you all the time either. http://www.acpropulsion.com/vehicles/pages/hybrid%20trailer_JPG.htm
probably an 8kw propane powered unit would do the job. check out the web site http//:distributedenergy
Electric Generator – power? – 50 points!!!?
You know all the inner specs of an electric generator: the type of wire, the diameter of the coil, the windings, the length of the coil, the permanent magnet strength, and etc.
Now what do you need to know outside of the actual generator to figure out how much energy is generated?
now do you just need to know the force exerted on the motor, the speed, or what?
to get 50 points: if you think your answer is good, then search for this same question and you will see five other questions by me that are exactly this. if you get best answer, you will get best answer for all 5 of these questions, and you will get 50 points
Now all you need to know is the RPM (revolutions per minute) that the generator rotates because power (energy) is also dependent on the speed of work. 5 revolutions an hour is not the same as 5 revolutions a minute.
The number of times it rotates per minute is then dependent on the circular force exerted on it, a higher force will spin it faster obviously and get you more power. You also need the amount of time that force is exerted, because the longer the force is exerted, the more it will spin and the more power you will get.
So essentially all you need to know now to calculate the power generated – is the amount of rotational force applied to the generator and the amount of time it is applied.
How big would an electric generator have to be to comfortably power a house?
Just wondering! We have 240 volt power supply in Australia. We have fridge, freezer, 2 air conditioners, sometimes use a welder, plus all the other normal appliances.
Would there be other costs involved besides the electrician to hook it all up and the generator?