Maintaining Wind Turbines

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Wind turbines (even expensive commercial ones) are not something you can install and forget about!
Wind turbines (even expensive commercial ones) are not something you can install and forget about!
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“Homebrew Wind Power” by Dan Bartmann and Dan Fink will help you build and install your own wind turbine.
“Homebrew Wind Power” by Dan Bartmann and Dan Fink will help you build and install your own wind turbine.

Homebrew Wind Power(Buckville Publications, 2009) by Dan Bartmann and Dan Fink provides step-by-step, illustrated instructions for building a wind generator in a home workshop. It covers the basic physics of how the energy in moving air is turned into electricity, and most importantly, will give you a realistic idea of what wind energy can do for you – and what it can’t.

Regular maintenance

As we’ve tried to pound into your head repeatedly throughout this book, wind turbines (even expensive commercial ones) are not something you can install and forget about! We recommend that you follow the maintenance schedule outlined below, or some reasonable facsimile thereof.

For the first month after you first erect the turbine:

  • Published on Jun 22, 2018
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