If you are impatient, you can skip all the circuit diagrams in the previous chapter and just run the positive and negative to battery clamps next to your batteries. If you wires everything right you should be able to put the red and black clamps on and make the blade spin.

If there are no switches in the line and the blades don't spin you have a wire or generator or battery problem (yup...) and need to trace that down. Try applying 12 volts directly to the generator and see it it spins.

If the blade spins backwards simply reverse the wires and mark them with red and black tape. If the blades spin forwards, you're ready to go on.

Vibration will tear the place apart: if your mount or flies erratically (halyard mounts can do that), or everything vibrates, either your blade is out of balance and needs to be rebalanced after sanding or your mount needs to be re-engineered. Stop now before you either break something or kill someone. If it runs smoothly, you're ready to go on.

Take your voltage meter and set it for AMPS and put it inline with the red clamp; remove the red clamp (leave the black on on the negative post of the battery) and clip it onto one lead and take the other lead and touch the positive post of your battery: that's how many amps the generator is cranking out. Write this down.

Switch the meter to VOLTS, take both clamps off the battery and touch the black to negative and red to positive and let the generator run free. Check your voltage meter and see if you get 20-30 volts. If so, write it down. The power you are getting is Amps x Volts = Watts.

If it's working, hook it up and start building the electrical circuits in the previous chapter to control it. If you ever have to stop it, simply remove battery clamps from the battery and clip them together: in a storm you can weld with that spark.