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do you have pictures of the windmill?


sure: http://pics.ww.com/v/jacques/renewables/windmill/

That documents the whole building from start to finish, including the 3d computer controlled router/plasmacutter we built in order to fabricate all the parts.

The whole thing including making the tools took about a year and half.

A single picture of the completed machine is here:

http://pics.ww.com/v/jacques/renewables/windmill/firstrun.jp...

It's a variable pitch 3 blader with a 'drum' type rotor that holds 18 2x1x.5" neos. Total power about 2000 Watts, design power was 2.5 KW so not perfect but still pretty good.




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