Its too late by the time I post this to take it outside and try them out but I finished them. Finally. The wife helped me with this tonite or I would not have finished it yet tonite. My only concern now is that I am afraid that the torque (is that spelled right?) may rip these apart. The force behind 6 blades will be awsome.
Here is the video:
I bought this Amatek Generator Motor from ebay yesterday and I was amazed that it arrived at my house today. I dont think I have ever had anything come from ebay so fast.
Anyway, its an Amatek 38 Volt DC.
It came with the hub and the mount.
I modified the small generator in several ways as you will be able to see in the video.
First, I moved the pivot point more towards the front of the motor.
Next, I recut the hub and made changes to it that would allow for it to be more balanced.
I then re-mounted the blades and made sure that they were centered on the hub.
Today we have crappy weather with the wind at about 10 mph blowing in from the East.
The Generator is from a treadmill. Its 90 Volts DC and spins clockwise.
Below: Video 1
Below Video 2
Below Video 3
In these pics you will probably notice that I removed one of the 5′ sections of pipe from the stand or tower. This was to make it easier for me to be able to play with it and work on it using different blades and designs as well as testing for amps, volts and watts output.
I attached a small 12volt light from a car to the positive and negative wires and disconnected it from the battery bank until I am ready and so as not to put any stress on the battery bank. Until I am ready to.
^ Showing the smaller tower after removing a 5′ section of pipe from the top
^ Showing the back of the generator and the treadmill motor used.
^ Now you can see the small 12 volt light attached to the top just to allow for the energy to go somewhere until I am ready for some real testing.
^ Front of it. You probably see this before in the previous post.
^ This pic shows the 1 1/4″ Tee used to allow the wire to exit
^ This is the bottom of the stand I used basic water pipe for the stand. ( 1″)
^ This is a pic of it next to the garage. I first used 2 five foot sections of pipe to raise the generator to 10′ but found that it was too hard to move it when I was testing so I finally removed one of the 5′ sections.
^ Side view of the generator.
^ Close up of the motor and hub.
^ Side View - The 1 1/4″ pipe that is seen in this picture connected to the floor flange, I ended up cutting it shorter to about 4″ It was like a foot and half in length.
^ View of it just before moving it outside.
^ View of it from about 15 feet away. I removed the top 5′ pipe section to make it shorter to the ground for easier testing of blades, amp, watts, etc.
^ A Battery bank I used. Its 2 deep cycle marine batteries.
^ Close up of the connection. I connected the 2 positive connections on the batteries using battery cable from AutoZone. nice part about these batteries is that there are small wing nuts included which make hooking up things to it alot easier.
^ batteries sitting inside of a plastic tote to try to keep it all dry. The basic black tote was purchased at Lowes and was very cheap. You can find these about anywhere including WalMart for only a couple of dollars. They just help to keep the water (rain out) of where your batteries and wiring are located. I happen to have this in my garage for the moment so there is not alot of worry about it at this time for me but should I move it outside then this will be handy.
^ You can buy extra lengths of battery cable at about any automotive store. Basically anywhere that sells batteries.
^ This is a pic of the inverter I use. Its 1200watt but this pic didnt turn out very well.
^ Side view of the generator on the test stand in my basement before moving it outdoors.
^ Motor clamped to the aluminum square pipe using large hose type clamps.
^ Attached in this pic you can see the 1 and quarter inch floor flange used to connect the pipe to the square tube.
^ Tail. I didnt really craft this thing just kind of put it on there and bolted it. Maybe should have cut it into some type of shape to make it look better.
^ Front side of the hub showing the lines I used to mount the blades and to measure distance. I used flat washers on the bolts for this small generator although I really do not think I needed to as its too small to cause any real damage should the thing blow up.