Your Questions About Wind Generators Home Use
Helen asks…
How to heat home during power failure?
I would like to have an alternative heating source to the natural gas furnace in my 800sq.ft mobile home, what options are available? I am older and with physical disabilities.
admin answers:
You can buy a mobile home approved, direct gravity vent wall heater. Like a Cozy, Williams, Empire.
They just mount on an outside wall and take combustion air from outside and exhaust to outside. Don’t mount near a door or window. They have standing pilots and don’t require any electricity. They have millivolt gas valves that work off pilot generators. For 800 sq. Ft. I think you need about 38,000 btu’s on the coldest day of the winter when the wind is blowing 40 mph. Good luck! Hope I helped.
John asks…
How to make a friction generator to power your bike light?
What materials do i need to build it at home (homemade)?
Thank you a lit ‘MarkG’ 😀
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Thank you a lot*
admin answers:
A permanent magnet hobby motor from Radio Shack, some rubber tubing and hose clamps.
The motor will generate a voltage when its shaft is spun. You need to attach a small diameter pulley or wheel to the shaft of the motor. You may also try slipping a piece of small diameter rubber tubing over the motor shaft. Either way the bike wheel will rub against the pulley or tubing covered shaft to cause the motor shaft to rotate. You can attach the motor to a frame or bracket using hose clamps and wire ties..
You may find it easier to wind a coil of magnet wire and mount that coil to the bike frame near the rim. Then crazy glue pairs of magnets to the rim (alternating the pole orientation).
THis will generate AC power as the magnets travel past the coil. Use a pair of white LED’s connected in parallel but in opposite polarities to the coil. Each LED will light on part of the AC volatge.
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