[Peripherals] windmills

[Arjun Sarwal]

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>
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
>



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Arjun Sarwal
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