Wind Gen Zen - Manual to construct your own Wind Generator Blades
WindGen-Zen
Introduction and Overview
This manual will teach you how to build the
WindGen-Zen Wind Generator Kids Computer Kamp sells to sailors,
mountain cabin retreats, folks with RV's and anyone who wants to
generate their own power from the wind. These generators have
powered sailboats with laptops, radars and radios and can
produce enough energy for lights, TV's, VCR's and even skill
saws and engine starters. These generators are durable, have
withstood winds up to 70+ knots and the blades are tough even
when unfinished. You'll be carving them from vertical grain
douglas fir but you could also use Oak, Ash or any good
hardwood. 
Did you know you can reduce drag by 8
percent by roughing up the surface of your blades.
The NAVY does this with torpedoes and NASA tests show a 'grit'
on the airfoil will help reduce laminer adhesion, causing the
wind to 'stick a bit less' to the blade. We used to send our
blades out shiny and smooth (because novice wind-gen folks
wanted a shiny blade), but we stopped when they asked how to
make it as efficient as a blade with a slightly irregular
surface: all blades come slightly roughed. If you want your
blade smooth and shiny, touch it up with 400 wet/dry sandpaper
and top with a sprayed clear coat. Our blades are coated with a
U.V. resistant penetrating epoxy and clear coated. Colors and
air brushed artwork is available for an extra fee.
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The generator will not produce all that power and
run all those devices without some help. To convert DC power to
AC you need an invertor. To run big devices, such as
skillsaws, heaters and TV's you need healthy invertor rated for several thousand
watts although smaller invertors will also work for smaller devices
such as laptops and lights.
You'll also need a place to store the energy. We
recommend Golf Cart batteries. These cost $100 or more for two
of them and are well worth it. They outlast deep cycle batteries
and can be deeply discharged. You use two 6 volt battaries
connected in series (positive terminal of one battery to the
negative terminal of the second one) to produce 12 volt
circuits. A typical sailboat with a good set of batteries might
have two WindGen-Zen generators, a 2500 watt invertor and 8
golf cart batteries to form 4 banks of 12 volt batteries. It's
also helpful to have a WINDSWITCH that can be made from a
simple piece of styrafoam and a marine float switch.
Materials You Need
- The CD complete with step-by-step pages, tons of photos and AVI vide.
- The four foot length/template blade with line drawings on it for carving your own 6 foot blade.
- Your own/new 4 foot or 6 foot blade (this lesson is for a 6 foot blade).
- 5 inch pulley.
- 2 1/2 inch by 2 1/2 inch stainless bolts.
- 2 1/2 inch nylok nuts (or lock washers).
- 2 1/2 inch fender washers.
- 2 1/2 inch machine washers.
- Planer, drill, beltsander, square and pencil.
- Milk bottle top (large) or any circle about 2 inches around.
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receive a 4 foot blade with all lines drawn
for $29.95. plus $20.00 s/h (blades are long)
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