Saturday, April 19, 2008

It makes power!!!

The concept has been proved finally! Using a two peaces of plastic cylinders, cut diagonally, we made a pretty good little model of a wind turbine that works with wind coming from any direction possible. This is just what we need! The 2:1, 45 curvature of the pieces and absence of air space in between parts of the blade makes the model work a lot better:



For the real turbine we are probably going to use this shape, and for the material culvur pipe (not sure how to spell that), which would the same as the plastic cylinder we used.
On friday we also saw our little turbine actually making power! It was very exciting! A little tiny motor attached to our axis was able to make about 160 mW, which is not so bad for a model.
And, by the way, we also tested it outside, and it worked even at the slightest wind.

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