The Wind Turbine DIY Book by Jonathan Schreiber & Hugh Piggott.
New plans for building the Ferrite Generator Wind Turbines. Designs from 600W to about 3kW. Build everything yourself – Ideal for Off-Grid and DIY enthusiasts!
Available in English and German language.
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The book will give you all the essential information you need to build your own wind turbine and use it for your energy supply. We use a simple and practical approach and open source solutions wherever possible:
Wind Turbines from: 2m – 4m rotor diameter
Detailed instruction for the whole building process
Off-grid and grid-tie systems
Plans for building the tower to carry the wind turbine
Turbine maintenance guide
Options to combine the wind turbine with PV, battery storage, MPPT controllers, dump load controllers, etc.
The book is made for those who want to create something. Everything is based on real experience.
The Piggott Wind Turbine is widely considered as the best design for home made wind turbines world wide with over 40. years of continuous development by the community. The wind turbines shown here are easy to build, efficient, robust and long lasting – at low complexity and material cost. That makes it ideal for sustainable renewable energy systems, on and off the grid.
The used materials are simple and easy to get and the turbines can be built with basic tools and workshop equipment.
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In general: Yes. The actual impact of a DIY wind turbine will depend on many factors, most importantly site windspeed. A small wind turbine should always be combined with a PV system for off-grid applications.
The Piggott turbine design uses a home built axial flux generator. The advantage of a custom homebuilt generator is that we can match it exactly to the wind turbine blades, That is very important for high efficiency. Custom modifications for high or low wind sites or special battery voltages are also possible. The custom built Generator can easily keep up with commercial axial flux generators.
That depends on your experience. If you already have some experience with hands-on work, you should easily be able to build the 2.2F turbine in 2 weeks of relaxed work. If you have little experience with work like that, you should plan a bit longer and take it easy. It could also be useful for you to participate in a wind turbine hands-on course, were you can experience the whole process.
The book is made in a way that you can build the turbines without very special knowledge in electrics or engineering, as long as you are willing to learn. Some experience in general hands-on work, electrics and metalwork are useful.
It is not as difficult as it might seem in the beginning!
The use of Ferrite magnets has become quite popular in recent years, although the idea is not new. Ferrite magnets are free from any corrosion issues which have troubled many wind turbine builders who use neodymium magnets. Ferrite magnets are also much cheaper than neodymium magnets and the production is less bad for the environment.
The F-Generators are a bit larger for the same rated power compared to neodymium magnets but that is a good trade off for the solved corrosion issue .
We do use neodymium magnets for small & mobile wind turbine systems. An building manual for this is planned!
