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Originally Posted by Steaming
Maybe there are other "off the shelf" items that would make good candidates for re-engineering? There are guys who use alternaters to make a generators.
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Yes, there are and there are a lot of people who buy them too, but they are designed to spin faster so they have a low output and people end up frustrated because their "wind turbine" doesn't work even tho it spins, I can fold a piece of paper in to a pin wheel and have it spin! that doesn't make it a wind turbine, if you want to use a car alternator then you need a gear box, that adds cost, weight, complexity and drag, there aren't any alternators that I know of that are designed to spin at lower speeds that are not made for wind turbines.