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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by the author, Jonathan Schreiber
This book is the result of 10 years teaching hands-on DIY courses for small wind turbines in which over 50 wind turbines with more than 500 people have been built.
The book combines all learnings and developments from those projects and presents them in a usable and understandable way for practical application and to serve as an additional tool for knowledge transfer. Everything is focused on real life hands-on situations.
The goal is to provide all the field tested and proven knowledge you need to build your own wind turbine while having a great time. Therefore I take great care to include all the little details that make a difference when building a wind turbine.
The book also wants to support and encourage a DIY culture of self sufficiency and independence – values that the world really needs in my opinion. Making your own energy is cool, but building your own system with a wind turbine is even better.
I do put a lot of heart into this project since I am a guy who learns by doing things and gets his hands dirty. As a child I enjoyed looking at technical drawings and instructions on how to build stuff. My goal is to make a book which I would have gotten excited about as a kid.
Our upgraded 2.2F16p Wind Turbine
The wind turbine installed on a remote off-grid site
A main factor and inspiration in the creation of this Book is my friend from Scotland, Hugh Piggott. Hugh lives off the grid in Scotland and has been working on DIY concepts for small wind turbines since the 1970s, becoming a leading expert in the field. He has designed his own well known wind turbines with the typical Axial Flux generator which are the base on which this new book is built on.
I have met Hugh in 2012 and visited him in Scotland many times to experiment with homebuilt small wind turbines. This is where I have drawn much inspiration for my projects.
Hugh is my Co-Author and Mentor on the creation of this DIY book.
The new book will be centered around the wind turbine designs using axial flux generators with ferrite magnets. These are the wind turbines that I build regularly in our PureSelfMade hands-On courses. The designs with ferrite magnets bring some advantages in lifetime, costs and environmental footprint.
What has begun as a casual project some years ago soon became bigger than expected: There is a lot of work that goes into the creation of such a book. Not only texts need to be good. Technical drawings and the descriptions of workflows make up a large part of this projects. Also what goes into the book needs to be tested and tried in real life field tests.
It’s as they say: The bible wasn’t written within a day. However, I am glad that now after those last two years there is an end in sight. This has clearly come a long way and is on the road to completion. Around the book project, The PureSelfMade Project has in itself evolved and expanded, which is exciting. We are on a good path.
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Important aspects of the project. Most of them run in parallel actually.
