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kita

wind turbine self-build course

Hope this is an appropriate place to post this. Let me know if not and I'll move it.

Thanks

felix
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Wind Turbine Self-Build Course 23rd-27th November

V3 Power will be running a "How to Build Your Own Wind Turbine" course in Lincolnshire in November. During the week the group will be building a 2.4m turbine, 7m tower and installing an off-grid battery system. Participants will gain an in-depth knowledge of the 'Hugh Piggott' design of turbine, and receive plenty of hands-on practical experience. It will equip participants with all the skills they need to be able to build and install their own wind turbine, including blade carving, coil winding, stator casting, and welding the turbine assembly.

The turbine is a suitable size for a low energy household and is optimized for battery charging, so the design is most relevant to people planning an offgrid home or smallholding. But with some modifications it could also be grid-tied, and the tower design is such that the whole setup can be moved around if necessary.

The course is being organised by V3 Power who have over two years experience running these sort of workshops all over the country. The emphasis is on reliability and simplicity of construction,
user-maintenance, and reducing the embodied energy of the build by using recycled materials where possible. For details about their past and future projects please check their website www.v3power.co.uk

The course will be taking place at 'the Barn' which is a group of old
stables and farm buildings outside of Stamford in Lincolnshire, that were converted about twenty years ago. Warm kitchen, big garden, and plenty of woods to explore. Although the course is quite intensive there will be time in the evenings for sitting by the open fire, lectures and film screenings.

The course is run on a not for profit basis.

Cost: £450 Waged, £400 Mid-wage, £350 Low-wage or Student.

To book a place on the course please contact Aran or Tom at
info@v3power.org. Places are limited so please get in touch soon.
sean

Your link to their site doesn't work for me.
Jamanda

Link mended. Welcome to the site Kita!
Chez

Welcome! Thank you for the link. We can't make this one, but will keep an eye open for later ones!
shadiya

I just got back from a V3 wind turbine course and can thoroughly recommend them. My brain felt absolutely fried by the science, but then I didn't do Physics at school so there wasn't anything to remember. I learnt how to weld and despite not entirely understanding what was going on, managed to be a useful member of the team. We are probably going to host one here next year, that's how much fun it was! I definitely don't understand how it works at the end of the course but I know I can make the bits that make it work. I think that anyone with a reasonable understanding of basic physics would find the course highly enjoyable. Plus, all the V3 team are great. I wanted to write to their parents and congratulate them! ( In between wishing I was twenty years younger.... Embarassed Very Happy )
vegplot

shadiya wrote:
I just got back from a V3 wind turbine course and can thoroughly recommend them. My brain felt absolutely fried by the science, but then I didn't do Physics at school so there wasn't anything to remember. I learnt how to weld and despite not entirely understanding what was going on, managed to be a useful member of the team. We are probably going to host one here next year, that's how much fun it was! I definitely don't understand how it works at the end of the course but I know I can make the bits that make it work. I think that anyone with a reasonable understanding of basic physics would find the course highly enjoyable. Plus, all the V3 team are great. I wanted to write to their parents and congratulate them! ( In between wishing I was twenty years younger.... Embarassed Very Happy )


A wire moving past a magnet will cause an electrical current to flow through the wire. More wires, moving faster, stronger magnetic field all make for more powerful generator. Turbine blades provide the motion (under suitable wind conditions). Complicated stuff is the arrangement of wires, mechanics etc. but principle very simple.
shadiya

A wire moving past a magnet will cause an electrical current to flow through the wire. More wires, moving faster, stronger magnetic field all make for more powerful generator. Turbine blades provide the motion (under suitable wind conditions). Complicated stuff is the arrangement of wires, mechanics etc. but principle very simple.

Thanks Vegplot, I managed to grasp that principle, not entirely brain dead you know, it was some of the more complicated stuff I got stuck on. Cheek! Very Happy
vegplot

shadiya wrote:
A wire moving past a magnet will cause an electrical current to flow through the wire. More wires, moving faster, stronger magnetic field all make for more powerful generator. Turbine blades provide the motion (under suitable wind conditions). Complicated stuff is the arrangement of wires, mechanics etc. but principle very simple.

Thanks Vegplot, I managed to grasp that principle, not entirely brain dead you know, it was some of the more complicated stuff I got stuck on. Cheek! Very Happy


Sorry, made an incorrect presumption.
shadiya

I'll let you off Wink
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