Well, to make a long story short, creating my own small off grid wind power system was far easier than I expected it to be. I was expecting a bunch of pain and no small amount of misery. It can’t be easy to make your own wind power turbine, right?

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In any case, my friend showed me the package he bought to build his own small wind turbines.  He walked me through the construction process and it seemed pretty straight forward.  Colin showed me pictures from his project and showed me the wiring he put in place.  We talked a bit about the logistics and then I went home to see about buying plans for myself.

I checked out the website and was pretty excited about what I found.  This stuff was quite affordable too!  The big kicker for me was that this package came with both diy wind generator plans AND diy solar panel plans.  I could knock both energy sources off my list at the same time as I had my doubts about the used solar panels I had in place!

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I whipped out my debit card and bought the plans.  I spent the whole night watching the construction videos and getting an idea of what I’d be doing.  I took the list of parts I’d need and went shopping.  I had a hard time finding a couple things locally but that wasn’t anything the Internet couldn’t fix!

Pretty soon I had all the parts for my wind generator on hand and I started construction.  For the most part it was easier than I expected, though I have to admit I had to drop Colin a call once to get clarification on something.  But boy was it worth it.  I was so excited when I had the generator done!

Erecting the pole was fun to be sure, but with a couple ropes and using a truck to pull things into the right spot, it was up in a jiffy.  The moment of truth was here.  It was time to test the power generated by my new wind turbine.

It Worked!  I was actually getting about 15% more energy than I expected to from the turbines.  I’m psyched.  While I have some second hand solar panels already installed, I think I’ll be trying my hand at making a set of solar power panels using the plans that came with my wind turbine plans.

You probably saw the picture before, but I’ll show you a shot of my place again.  Small off grid wind power was achievable for me, so it’s definitely something you can do.  If I can, you can!

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