Kit for sale now- www.berezintechnologies.com Visit Blog at http for details on wind and other stuff I do. Part 2 is now done and covers power generation: www.youtube.com Harness the wind for less than 0. DIY vertical wind turbine of the Savonius style. Notable is that this cost less than 0 in materials so far and that the largest part of this turbine is recycled materials (the PVC drums previously held Balsamic Vinegar from Italy). Also, this turns well in a very light wind. Axle: 3 inch PVC piping from Home Depot Bearings: 5 inch lazy suzan from Lowes. Part 2 will cover power generation and connection to the battery bank.
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Check out my other videos where we use different types of bearings.
You are right. These bearings need oiling to run quietly and smoothly.
Thank You for all the info,great Job.
This is a great project, and thanks for sharing this. One thought as I watched the vid…what about using embedded (glued into and around the PVC pipe and axle, as wells as between the 7.5″ square wood segments, use fixed magnets where positive poles face, to create a repelling force and therefore frictionless field that floats the turbine. . Again, Thanks much.
I am experimenting with that technology. Click on embeddedprogrammer and see my other videos including Magnetic Levitation VAWT for more info.
Why did you make this? It’s not cool……
It is cooler than cleaning a chainsaw, Mr. Mugg Ost.
instead of the bearing maybe you could use two opposing neodymium magnets and get virtually no resistance.
Please check out my video, Magnetic Levitation Vawt, where I do just this.
I love this,but I would like to make a
watermill.I wonder if the lazy susan
idea could be enlarged and if the PVC
pipe would be strong enough for 2- 6 ft
circles plus the buckets or pieces of
rain gutters?
You would probably want to use flange bearings. The lazy susan bearings are not designed to work on their sides like you would need for a water wheel.
Thank you.You are kind to answer a question about something that not your project.But I do use blue barrels for
planters.I worked Wholesale fast food
chicken plant for 16 years.Your Idea would
keep the black birds away from the feeders.Might do vertical wind turbine
next summer.
blessings,Alan
i’m not a sceptic . i love this kind of stuff . in fact im working on a portable noiseless/fuelless generator with solar . everything i’ve done has been small scale mostly to power mt travel trailer off grid . my question is how feasable would it be to run a small shop with something like this ? obviously you’d need a battery array w/an inverter . would you be able to trust a regular dc inverter to do the task ? maybe a number of them ?
You would need a number of these and a big battery bank with a couple of very good inverters. Shop motors take a lot of juice if you are running a large lathe, milling machine, or the like. It all depends on what electric demands your shop needs. You can buy a kill-a-watt meter and check it out if they are 110V motors.
I think this is great and would definately benefit with opposing neodymium with zero resistance.
Yes, check out part 2 to see that happening.
I am looking into that. It would also make it near zero maintenance.
I think automotive bearings (high precision grade) will be needed to remove the noise… very cool idea and quite practical solution!
wow …. when u made the “error” and hooked them on the pipe wrong at 4:35 ….. it gave me an idea, i am building one similar this spring, you think if there was an extra set of ball bearings in the middle, and they were each on an independent pipe …….. could they potentially oscillate?
Cool. Looks like it works pretty good. Kind of an eye sore though.
they could go in different directions
your supposed to hook an stator to it, and get electricity. what gives?
Please check out part 2 of this video for the answer to that.
@Harwkins39 yeah, at least paint them tan to blend in
a little slick50 grease would quiet & lubricate those bearings nicely! make ‘em last longer too!