You’ve managed to gather all the parts you will be utilizing for your wind turbine, you have also estimated your wind turbine expenditure, and you are now fully determined to construct your own windmill. How do you assemble all the items you have gathered?

Here’s how you do it in 9 easy steps:

Stage 1: Procure or buy all the components on either eBay or from a hardware shop in your area. You’ll need a DC power motor, metallic sheets, PVC pipe, hub, tower, deep-cycle battery, charge controlling device, dump load, AC inverter and sufficient nuts as well as bolts to connect the three blades to the tower.

Phase 2: To start with, cut the PVC pipe into a 3 ft long piece, and then cut the pipe into four pieces ” 3 will be used for blades, and one shall be a spare. You will have to shape each blade so that one side tapers into a 2 point. The blades should of approximately 6 ft long ” they could be smaller, but surely not smaller than 4 ft in which case they may not spin easily.

Part 3: Now, make holes on the narrow end of your blades so that their positions align with the holes in your hub.

Stage 4: You may then weld or bolt a coupling in the middle of your hub, and then join the 3 blades to the hub and then attach the hub to the motor shaft ” small steel bars measuring 12 by 2 should be fine in most cases.

Phase 5: Align the blades and the hub by marking each blade with a number and making sure that the same blade does not land at the bottom every time ” if so, then you may have to scrape some metal off your connected metal bars.

Part 6: Take the DC motor shaft and slide it into the hole in the middle of your hub, also making sure that the hub itself is securely fastened.

Part 7: Now, look at your tail shaft to figure out the height and make a hole through the top part of the tower, above where the tail shaft’s upper end will go.

Phase 8: Then, chop the actual tail shaft from your metal which should be approximately 3-4 ft long and attach it to the tower with a flat bracket.

Phase 9: Now, make sure that your hub and the blades are joined to your tower and then wire the remaining components together. Remember to connect the DC motor to the charge controller and then connect that to the battery, and the battery to the AC inverter, which in turn goes into your utility box. The thickness of cable you will require would depend on the materials you used ” if you need a professional opinion, call an electrician.

Like I mentioned above, this is just a tip of the iceberg regarding DIY wind turbines – just enough so that you may understand how to build a simple turbine yourself.

The wind turbine described above should generate 300-500 watts of power, assuming that your mean wind velocity is a minimum of 10-20 mph.