Thread: Windmill types?
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Roger_Nickel
 
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Default Windmill types?

Gunner wrote:


Anyone have any specific preferences? Someone here sent me some files
from Oz on using a washing machine motor..a radial style Ive never
seen here in the US ever never. And no..I cant afford $150 worth of
exotic magnets to modify a GM alternator.
However..I can chain drive a 2 wire alternator..shrug.


You might be thinking of the Fisher and Paykel smartdrive motor.
This is a four phase permanent magnet step motor used in washing
machines and is common in this part of the world.
http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/eco...ours_wind.html