to buy enough solar panels or a big enough wind-mill without breaking the bank.
We were there. When we first started out living off grid we barely had enough money to build our house.
So how could we afford powering our home?
We were talking to our friend Oscar and he reassured us that it was fairly simple to construct a windmill. He told us that there are
quite a lot of designs accessible online to download.
Big mistake!
We didn't understand any of the designs that we found online. It always seemed that these writers just wanted to establish that they were the brightest people in the world. We blew more than $100 on designs before decided to do a lot of research then build our own. We spent over 6 months researching before perfected our windmill, but during peak winds it will yield more than 1800 watts of power.
We then chose to arrange the hard learned facts into simple plans so that even the non-technically inclined could build their own aerogenerator.
The Home made wind-mill Challenge
* the designs needs to be easy to follow and understand
* it has to generate over 1000 watts of electicity
* must cost less than $100 to build
* original blueprint for the homemade wind-mill
* uses exclusively readily accessible material
* must be easy to build and set up
* Tough enough to hold up to tough winds
* and it has to look great
We have presented these projects to Oscar and he said he wish that we'd shown him these plans before! He underwent the same problems that we had. he couldn't decipher most
of the plans that he found either.
Our recently constructed wind turbine presently stands on the top of a restored television tower spinning out free electricity for our family. Send us the photos of your completed
project and we will put them on the website!
We had a lot of fun learning how to build a wind turbine and we want to share that fun with you. We could have spent thousands on a new wind-mill but
why?
And we make this promise to you: these plans do meet the preceding requirements, but it does take some work on your part.
