Thread: small wind turbine home built

hi i have looked into both options and that one is a lot more expensive with you cannot install it yourself as its connected to the grid so you would expect to pay out around £3000 and that takes a lot of recovering miine will only cost around £450 or thereabouts and i will be storing what i produce so i will be in control, i will make it switchable from mains to my system if any faults develop. and i have just been offfered a full sign...

have you considered using the 12V directly? if you change all of your lighting to 12V then connect directly to the batteries then you won't have any losses in the inverter.. you would of course need a fairly large transformer and rectifier for when you have to use the mains.. but a car charger might be suitable.. and you'll need to beef up the wiring for the lights as you'll be using higher currents.. there's also the...

12V LED lighting would be perfect for this application. Perfect combination. But would need a backup for when there is no wind and the batteries run flat.

Very interesting approach, would it not serve better to feed/sell back to the grid? Or is that where all the expense is with the kits you can buy?? Rob

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Hi i have decided to build a small wind turbine fixed to my garage at the rear of the house before paying out for expensive turbine blades i decided to play around with a scrap ceiling fan this having 4 blades anyway i stripped it down and recovered the front part that held the blades on I decided to make my blades from 4" round plastic soil stack by cutting to 600 mm in length then placing a peice of tape from corner to corner and jig...

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