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1. i would try that aza but my ugly mugg would break the camera....lol...but it does remind me of some redneck jokes......"famous last words.....Here hold my beer Im gonna try sumthin" lol...riff

   Comment by riffran— 2008/02/08 @ 11:56 PM — (Reply)

2. thats why I chose the "INDIRECT" approach ... save my camera from extinction ...hhaa hahahaaaaaaa

   Comment by aza spade— 2008/02/09 @ 12:15 AM — (Reply)

3. What the hell giv it a try riff ....

   Comment by aza spade— 2008/02/09 @ 01:09 AM — (Reply)

4. Hey I looked up that other power site , are you building one now or later ? I like the idea and need to take it more seriously but .. next year ?????

   Comment by aza spade— 2008/02/09 @ 02:09 AM — (Reply)

5. this could get long winded (no pun intended..lol) Im gathering up the parts now, the disk I can pick up from a brake check or something after they switch them out of car as unusable.....the magnets may take a while...the wifey would have a freak out coniption if I just spent 100 or so on magnets out of the blue....as for the turbine? Not sure if im going to do a "lenz" turbine or a version of Racecom turbine....or a helical three blade,,,,just look up "vawt" (stands for verticle axis wind turbine) on a search engine wikipedeia or youtube, and youll see the different types...there is some that are old oildrums sawed in half and put into an "s" shape to make a drag type savonious turbine...lots to look up....otherpower .com usually shows the more conventional "hawt" horizontal types...but I just like the vawts for some reason...I geuss its the Mcguyver aspect of them......buils em from damn near anything...riff

   Comment by riffran— 2008/02/09 @ 02:19 AM — (Reply)

6. So your going to generate dc output voltage to charge batteries and rectify it to ac out ?

   Comment by aza spade— 2008/02/09 @ 02:30 AM — (Reply)

7. I think thats the plan.....mainly to charge my ham radio gear, and enough juice to keep a standard computer going, I figure about 4-6 batteries in parallel or you could put 10 in series to get 120 volts dc and put an inverter there...there is a lot of options, its a plan in progress, plus im gonna work on some solar options...my goal is to run and climate control the "ham shack" on wind and solar combined....the ham shack is my old bachelor pad....I built a one bedroom 800 square foot house when I was single....I was "naughty" in those days ..lol....riff

   Comment by riffran— 2008/02/09 @ 02:41 AM — (Reply)

8. KOOL ! i NEED TO UPGRADE , EVER SINCE i SAW THAT SHOW ABOUT SOME KIDS GOING ACROSS THE COUNTRY IN AN OLD VAN they got a solar array for cooling and added a garden to the roof of the van ,, thats riht to the roof, a protective box was attach to protect the garden contents from being blown off ...hahahaaaaaaaaaa

   Comment by aza spade— 2008/02/09 @ 02:49 AM — (Reply)

9. photovoltaic cells are getting cheaper, Im looking into a stirling engine plan.also...they run off a heat differential....dont care how you heat it...be it gas propane, a bucket of charcol, or wood or a solar collector..due to the transient factor of wind, and sun no one method will work alone...so I want to do both solar panel, collector and wind, and tie them together somehow....riff

   Comment by riffran— 2008/02/09 @ 03:18 AM — (Reply)

10. I think you rectify AC into DC there buddy

    Comment by Elmers Brother— 2008/02/14 @ 04:47 PM — (Reply)

11. all these years AC has been reduced to 12v dc then rectified with wheatstone bridge to a 12 "rectified' dc ...but with batteries you have dc volts available and then can be 'rectified" into AC voltage. The most basic example of this is the U.P.S. a stand by power source developed in the 80's to allow quick switching to a back up supply which then allowed you to shut down and save your computer work before it crashed, back in the dy o the IBM 80/86 processor. Now dys the "switching" system is more advanced...and the need has deminished. Computers are more able to react and shut down better when electric goes out ...unexpectedly.

    Comment by aza spade— 2008/02/14 @ 06:16 PM — (Reply)

12. so like in an AC to DC conversion you use a bridge rectifier...full wave etc and in a DC to AC converision you use a wheatstone bridge?

    Comment by Elmers Brother— 2008/02/15 @ 08:30 AM — (Reply)

13. hey chech this out
    
    http://www.i4at.org/lib2/inverter.htm

    Comment by Elmers Brother— 2008/02/15 @ 08:38 AM — (Reply)

14. that a good example ..on the previous schematic notice the sinusidal wave. It has a positive swing and last for a duration. then decays into a negative ( the "bottom" of the swing. It to has a "PEAK" and about the same duration. the bridge "CAPTURES' each of the neg swing and adds it to the previous. Use a "FILTER CAP" to clean it out put for a "SMOOTHER" flow.

    Comment by aza spade— 2008/02/15 @ 09:03 AM — (Reply)

15. I'm a technician myself...but more familiar with full wave rectifiers vice the wheatstone bridge and/or dc to AC converters

    Comment by Elmers Brother— 2008/02/15 @ 10:17 AM — (Reply)

16. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rectifier#Full-wave_rectification
    this link looks like what I am trying to say ????

    Comment by aza spade— 2008/02/15 @ 08:59 AM — (Reply)

17. that full wave rectification is AC to DC

    Comment by Elmers Brother— 2008/02/15 @ 10:18 AM — (Reply)

18. Right ..BUT guess how its done to take DC and convert it to AC ??? pretty much the same only opposite method in "THEORY" but the nutz and bolts of it are different. you take a "length" of dc and capture to a swing and add more until it fills a wave form of the amplitude and duration you are looking for. when its view on a O'scope it looks like a bunch of stairs all the way up and down. Then it only last for as long as you have battery strenght. So to keep up batteries you have a constant trickle charge feeding it faster than the bats can consume.

    Comment by aza spade— 2008/02/15 @ 10:29 AM — (Reply)

19. gotcha

    Comment by Elmers Brother— 2008/02/15 @ 10:49 AM — (Reply)

20. Hey, I'd pay a hundred bucks or so for a compact 1 KVA portable.

    Comment by aza spade— 2008/02/15 @ 11:47 AM — (Reply)

21. I saw that sterling engine 10 years ago I think, It was demonstrated by putting the "MODEL" on top of a hot cup of coffee.

    Comment by aza spade— 2008/02/09 @ 05:44 AM — (Reply)

22. amazing piece of tech that stirling engine ...invented in the 1800s as a safe alternative to the steam engine and the exploding boilers....NASA has has taken it waaaaaaay past those stages, are using hydrogen as the "fluid" to be circulated....combined with a nuclear heat source the have power for a long time optimal for deep space power and propulsion.....but ill stick with the more conventional means....such as a stirling engine rotisserie to turn the meat on the pit with ...lol...riff

    Comment by riffran— 2008/02/09 @ 06:52 PM — (Reply)

23. ya .. there you go .. for a more peacefull use ... rotate the spit on the BBq...wonder how much it would cost/sell for ???/

    Comment by aza spade— 2008/02/09 @ 07:16 PM — (Reply)

24. If you are looking for wind power, how could you have possibly missed the Clintons?
    
    Ed
    
    

    Comment by Ed— 2008/02/14 @ 06:19 PM — (Reply)

25. Too much wind from the wrong end....rofl....riff

    Comment by riffran— 2008/02/14 @ 08:35 PM — (Reply)

26. Portable unit ...wind bag ...

    Comment by aza spade— 2008/02/15 @ 02:33 AM — (Reply)

27. Whichever does or doesnt get produced we all need to get off gasoline as an everyday fuel for personal transportation needs. We need to leave gasoline to the trucks that bring food, produce, and the other things we consume. I hear the honda Hydrogen Fuel car has a recharge unite that can be used to supply power to your home.... "GOOD BY TEXAS ELECTRIC" (ONCOR) !!!!!!!

    Comment by aza spade— 2008/03/04 @ 05:54 AM — (Reply)

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