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This workshop will guide students through the process of building a small wind turbine from scratch. Brief sessions each day on wind generator theory will be followed by shop sessions. The workshop group will construct a working wind generator.
Participants will gain hands-on experience carving wooden blades, winding coils, wiring, and fabricating a complete wind turbine. The turbine built in the workshop will produce up to 500 watts in higher winds. Participants will learn how to adapt this and other designs for other voltages, and how to scale the design concepts up or down to meet their needs.

• Designing and carving wooden blades
• Alternator theory and design
• Winding coils
• Fitting magnets into homebuilt alternators
• Governing systems
• Yaw and tail design & construction
• Wiring & fabrication
• Construction details

• Residential Wind Power
• Wind-Electric Systems Maintenance and Repair
• PV Design and Installation
• PV Design Online

This workshop is an amazing gathering of many of the most important thinkers and tinkerers of the micro-wind field. Having access to these amazing people is truly inspiring and helps one reach a level of understanding that one can't get anywhere else.
-- Home Built Wind Generators workshop participant, 2007

Amazing line up of wind professionals and ratio of students to teachers! I was blown away with the knowledge level of instructors and availability of them during class!
-- Home Built Wind Generators workshop participant, 2007

Workshops begin at 9 am unless otherwise noted. Please show up at 8:30 am the first day.