Create Your Own Power with a Home Built Wind Generator
It may sound a bit futuristic and overly ambitious, but it is possible to create a home built wind generator. The question of the day is why you might want to take on a project like this and can you even handle it? Wind power is a viable and growing alternative energy source that the world may come to rely on more and more as fossil fuels are depleted. Thinking ahead now is an important step to ensuring that you will always have an energy source later.
Why a Home Built Wind Generator?
There are a variety of reasons why you might consider a home built wind generator such as to create supplemental power for your residence or parcel of land and also just because you can! Some areas of the country rely on solar power first and then electricity as a back-up. A wind generator can pick up the slack once the solar power is depleted (such as when the sun goes down). Of course you would need adequate wind as well as space to erect the wind turbines that produce the power.
Buying a parcel of remote land as a hunting lease or a little getaway is nice but sometimes, there are no electrical power options. With a home built wind generator, you could possibly produce enough power to run a coffee maker, fans or whatever electrical luxury you cannot do without. Keep in mind however that unless that area has enough wind as well as enough land to put up a few of these generators, you are not likely to produce enough energy to power much. Think of your wind generator as a supplemental luxury instead so you are not disappointed when there may not be enough wind to generate any power.
Kits Versus Home Grown
The growing trend toward alternative forms of energy has caused a great interest in the home built wind generator, so much so that you can buy do-it-yourself kits. These kits include all of the parts needed to assemble one wind turbine which will generate the power, as long as there is adequate wind of course. You can also build your own completely from scratch and this require a bit more ingenuity as well as knowledge of electronics and mechanics.
If you are handy around the house and can follow instructions but don't have enough electrical or mechanical know-how, the do-it-yourself kits to create your own home built wind generator are the best option. Pricing will vary depending on the materials used but if you are up to a challenge, you can definitely build a wind turbine generator from scratch at a fraction of the price.
For the home built wind generator made from scratch, there are a number of books as well as websites which feature schematics for different models and sizes. The rotor blades have been fashioned out of wood, metal and even PVC and the motors can be found in a variety of places. It is all a matter of your mechanical and electrical abilities as well as craftiness in substituting materials. However, hopefully the end result is a home built wind generator that actually produces a little energy.
