Every year at EWB Cardiff we run a practical project to build something useful. The aim of the practical project is to have hands on experience of building a technology that can be used for human development. This year we are building a wind turbine following Hugh Piggotts design www.scoraigwind.com
Friday, 19 June 2009
Biodiversity Event - Pictures
Here are some pictures of the North Wales turbine up at the event in Bala. The building behind is Cywain the new rural heritage centre.
The turbine is a 2.4m turbine. Its rated at 500W but it will only do this in a really high wind. I managed to get 500W out of it briefly the other day http://openenergymonitor.org/emon/sites/default/files/windout.png
A more useful measure is the avarage energy per day: from Hugh Piggotts wind turbine manual for the 2.4m design in an avarage windspeed of 11mph:
Avarage power: 100W Energy per day: 2.5kWh Amphours at 12V: 200Ah
3 comments:
good pictures, how much rated power of this wind turbine? 500w or 1kw?
Thanks!
The turbine is a 2.4m turbine. Its rated at 500W but it will only do this in a really high wind. I managed to get 500W out of it briefly the other day http://openenergymonitor.org/emon/sites/default/files/windout.png
A more useful measure is the avarage energy per day: from Hugh Piggotts wind turbine manual for the 2.4m design in an avarage windspeed of 11mph:
Avarage power: 100W
Energy per day: 2.5kWh
Amphours at 12V: 200Ah
500W from a 2.4m turbine? Excellent stuff guys...congrats!
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