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?

The answer to this question happens to be long and difficult, but I shall give you a brief explanation without going into lengthy details, which shall find a place in subsequent tutorials.

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.

Stage 2: Cut the PVC pipe into a 3 ft. long piece, and then cut the pipe into four parts, three of them being blades of the windmill and fourth one being a spare piece. Each blade needs to be shaped in order to narrow one side into a 2 end. Ensure that each blade is approximately 6 ft long, or at least 4 ft, to ensure good spinning.

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.

Part 5: Make sure the blades are all evenly weighted by marking each blade with a number, spinning them around, and making sure that the same blade does not end up at the bottom each time. If that’s the case, scrape metal off your connecting steel bars until the blades are evenly weighted

Phase 6: Smoothly slide the DC motor shaft into the hole in the middle of your hub (or drill one if it’s not there already). Make sure the hub is securely fastened.

Stage 7: Find out the height of your tail shaft and make a hole through the upper (smaller) portion of your tower, just above where the upper end of the tail shaft should 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.

Part 9: Now, connect your DC motor to the charge controller, connect the charge controller to the battery, connect the battery to the AC inverter, and then connect that to your utility box. The type of wire you need to use depends on the materials you’ve used – ask your electrician for help if all else fails.

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.