"How to build a wind turbine"

Workshop courses

updated 17th December 2009

This page has changed.  Please use these links to find future and past courses:
Calendar of future courses
Diaries of past courses

GENERAL INFORMATION ABOUT MY COURSES: Each day consists of workshop sessions with opportunities to gain hands-on experience of carving wooden blades, winding coils and fitting magnets into purpose built alternators for windpower,  wiring, fabrication, erection and all aspects which can be covered as time allows.  There is a very minimal amount of formal classroom presentation, largely controlled by demand.

A complete wind turbine will be built from scratch and erected.  Full drawings are provided as part of the course. 

I should stress that these courses are to teach you how to build a wind generator, so please do not expect that you will go home with a completed wind generator.



Other people doing similar courses:

EWB Cardiff Wind Turbine Project

Every year at EWB Cardiff we run a practical project to build something useful. The aim of the practical project is to have hands on experience of building a technology that can be used for human development. This year we are building a wind turbine following Hugh Piggott's design www.scoraigwind.com

v3 courses 2009

French (stage en France en Francais) courses
Livrée aux mille hurlants
Aux voleurs de poussières
Une dame de pales
En costume rafale
Prête ses trois oreilles
à l'amant rugissant

Trois aiguilles à recoudre
Dans le ciel déchiré
Un soleil clignotant
Aux allures de vautour
Une faucheuse obsession
De moissons circulaires

Enfante des syphons
Trois p'tits tours et s'en vont
Les troupeaux d'électrons.

tripaleum



The Otherpower crew teach some seminars.  These guys really know what they are doing.

UPCOMING WIND TURBINE CONSTRUCTION SEMINARS

"There's nothing better than 'hands-on' experience when you tackle the big project of building your first wind turbine and tower. We (and others) do offer in-depth, hands-on seminars at various locations around the USA. We also offer seminars at our wind turbine shop in Colorado, and we can travel to your location.
Contact us for more information if you want to book a seminar of your own here in Colorado for 2-4 students, or seminar at your own location. Many of these seminars we put on are made possible by grant money from universities and community colleges, who sponsor instructors and professors to attend. We can also provide references from past seminars."


Most solar than wind but a wide range of courses in renewable energy systems.



Purpose of the Build your own wind turbine workshop courses :To inspire, empower, and inform participants who wish to build small wind turbines.  To cater for people from all backgrounds, age-groups, nationalities, and educational levels.  To provide some basic theoretical understanding, and to develop the necessary workshop skills and confidence to enable participants to undertake small wind turbine construction projects safely.
  Course at Liverpool in 2000.

Scope of workshop course - goal and objectives:
A six day course in which the participants learn as much as they are personally capable of learning about small wind turbine design and construction.  Each day, a modest amount of theoretical introduction will lead to workshop sessions with opportunities to gain hands-on experience of carving wooden blades, winding coils and fitting magnets into purpose built alternators for windpower, wiring, fabrication, erection and all aspects which can be covered as time allows.  Participants who bring their own ideas and materials to the course will be welcomed and given assistance where possible.

We would hope to complete one wind turbine during the project, and make progress in the construction of others.  Where participants have brought the materials, they will be able to take the complete (or partially complete) components (blades, alternators..) home with them.  Other work in progress will remain on site for use in future courses.


 

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