EWB Cardiff Wind Turbine
August 27, 2009
Here is the first of a couple of posts about the projects we have undertaken in the past.
Over the past year a group of us at Cardiff Univeristy built a wind turbine as a part of Engineers Without Borders Cardiff training. We followed a design developed by Hugh Piggott of Scoraig Wind. The design has been used in development situations and by self-builders around the world.
EWB Cardiff wind turbine
The turbine has a blade diameter of 2.4m. Every part of the wind turbine is built from scratch. The blades are carved out of wood. The alternator is built from 24 permanent magnets mounted to 2 steel disks and 10 hand wound copper coils cast in resin. The blades and alternator and tail are attached to a welded steel mounting which sits on top of the tower.
For more information about the project have a look at the blog.
