[Peripherals] windmills

[Yamandu Ploskonka]

I will try to put something together so this doesn't get lost, because I 
can vouch it works.

 One of the major technology  issues had to do on how to mount the 
dynamo so that as it rotates to follow the wind the power transfer will 
not depend on a wire, but in a contact touching a brass cylinder set on 
the pole. 
And of course, the brake.

Besides that it was in appearance a simple thing...  I put a bit of 
sarcasm here, because I have grown to respect enormously technology 
solutions that actually work, as distinct from whatever I concoct in my 
gasoline-fumes damaged brain.  Hopefully my car will be working again 
today, after two rounds of removing and replacing the gas tank.

Yama

Arjun Sarwal wrote:
> Yama
>
> Thanks for sharing this.
> Can you please post some design details whenever you get the chance ?
>
> best
> Arjun
>
> On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 8:49 PM, Yamandu Ploskonka 
> <yamaplos at bolinux.org <mailto:yamaplos at bolinux.org>> wrote:
>
>     our windmill in Arequita, Uruguay was on a 20 ft pipe, from the
>     ground, tied to the side of the house.
>
>     The charger probably was once a car dynamo.  The propeler was hand
>     carved out of wood.  This one eventually broke down and I replaced
>     it with little success.  I wanted eventually to make a smaller
>     diameter propeller with more arms so as to have higher speed at
>     same wind force, but didn't relly put effort into it.
>
>     A neighbor had a similar setup, he would charge batteries for a fee.
>
>     the electricity came to a relay, and then to the battery.
>
>     It took us 4 years of paperwork to get electricity from the power
>     line that was eventually installed by our farm.
>
>     Yama
>
>
>
>
> -- 
> Arjun Sarwal
> http://dev.laptop.org/~arjs <http://dev.laptop.org/%7Earjs>