1.  Detailed  Video Instruction on how to make your own wind turbine

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

2.  Astronomer Michael Davis’ Home made wind turbine

Mike used an old DC motor from those old computer tape drive motors.  Not those recent tape drive motors but those old mainframe days that spin those huge reel to reel magnetic tapes.    He has made a well documented webpage with lots of picture of each of the parts.    It even has a schematic diagram of the charge controller.

3.  Homemade Wind Generator from smallwind.co.uk

What’s great about this one is that there are CAD files available for download.  The files are in .IGES, also some DFX files are included.  I believe you can just send these files to a fabricator and they can load it up to their machine which can fabricate it according to the exact specs and measurement in those files.

4.  Homemade Wind Generator from otherpower.com

This one is a bit complicated and required one to make your own magnet rotor.  It is pretty detailed though.   It has 5 pages worth of very useful instructions complete with photos.

a. page 1 – metal work

b. page 2 – magnet rotors

c. page 3 – stator fabrication

d. page 4 – assembly and blades

e. page 5 – tower and erection

5.  Invention Nation Guys

One episode of Discover Science’s  Invention Nation,  the guys went to a guy who runs his entire house off-grid.  They learned about the concept of how a wind turbine generator works and created a homebrew wind generator themselves.

Check it out (see video below)

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Top 5 Homemade Wind Turbine Instructions

The kit consists of plastic parts, a solar panel and a motor. Just snap it together (some parts may require gluing for stability), stick it in some sunny goodness and away she’ll spin.

Recommended for young ‘uns aged 13 and up, it’s available from GrassRootsStore.com in Toronto for $25 CDN. Here’s the product page.

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A Solar Powered Windmill