Giant Pinwheel wind turbine
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- Опубликовано: 18 окт 2024
- After seeing a video on 'How to make a large aluminum pinwheel'
• HOW TO: giant pinwheel...
I wondered if a bigger, cheaper one could be made using one sheet of my favorite material; Fluted Plastic!
My thoughts if it worked would be to turn it into a fun portable wind generator that I could take to the ocean when camping out for a week.
What a cool project. I'm sure plenty of other people are going to say it too, but it'd be interesting to hook up a chain to the bicycle cassette and see if it could turn a small generator. I'm sure it wouldn't be useful for much, but it'd fun.
13:57 pause - You know you're living a surreal blessed life when you turn your camera toward the giant pinwheel that's bolted to your pickup truck and it's sitting beneath a full arching rainbow. 😆
I noticed that too when editing the video clip. What a stroke of luck!
Awesome. I'm guessing there are a few times when the neighbors say "Hmmm. I wonder what Paul's up to now?". Thanks for sharing!
You are too funny Paul, Sorry I laughed when the coroplast hit you on the chin.. hehe
I swear Paul the things you are into building an playing with is like looking in a mirror haha :) I bought a recumbent about 10 years ago, modified the heck out of it into a fully electric vehicle and Its still running happily to this day, and I have just bought a houseboat to turn into my completely self sufficient minamalist home, I have been agonising about how to manage a ship to shore without taking up much space and I have come up with a two part single person boat design i was going to make out of ply and fibre... You have just blown that concept out of the water! I found your stuff randomly and I am guessing you will have videos on all the materials you have worked with, so I daresay I have found my next binge watching campaign! Thank you for documenting and sharing your ideas, It was an unexpected and pleasant find.
7:25 - Perfect demonstration of man's bimanous limitations. So relatable.
Merlins old school garage has a video on turning a car alternator into an arc welder. Would be interesting to see a wind powered welder. Anyways this is really cool. Thanks for sharing
Thanks so much for doing this project! Several lols along the way.
Dang, I wish I lived in your neighborhood! great project!
I really love this idea concept of a coroplast pinwheel makes me think what if you use it as a wind turbine for off-grid purposes?
use it as a wind turbine for off-grid purposes to power up lights or something like that in case of a power outage is there's a lot of wind that could create some power.
I live in Southern Colorado where there's a lot of wind. Everybody in my neighborhood getting solar panels but I feel if they use a combination between solar panels and wind turbines when The Not So sunny days are around and still be able to generate some power.
I love this video as I love all your videos.
I look forward to seeing the next one
Fantastic ! I wouldn't worry about the neighbors thinking that you're crazy. If they start making moves to have you committed then you might want to worry! 😂Thanks for the video Paul!
Thank you for the hint with the nuts very cool idea for small edge
Awesome, another kid at heart!!!
🤔🤔🤔alternator, batteries, inverter belt or chain and a little bit of wire! I think you may be onto something!😊
Paul … Excellent design; beautiful build!!! You never cease to amaze me!!!! I can’t wait for your next build!!!!! Me and mine wish you and yours all things great and good; take care, be safe, best wishes and God bless!!! Chuck Knight from Buffalo, Texas. 👨🌾✝️🙏🐩
What a great project for ham radio field day. We were going to be solar power next year, but I now think we may try to be solar and wind power. I am going to try to duplicate your project with a few modifications. Thank you for your tips.
Very nice and great addition to the flower garden :)
That was a whole lot of FUN!
Very cool Paul.
Wouldn't some sort of vertical windmill be better? 🤔😁👍👍🇺🇸
Nice work next try it with sheet metal and steel supports. You have the skills.
❤ this guy! Engineers rock
now you can make it harvest wind power
Might be a good idea to put a whole bunch of them on a single shaft and at the end of the shaft you could put a year there and run it down to a generator at whatever ratio you want
👍😎👍 that ought to work 😂🤣. Thanks for always trying something very interesting that I’ve never thought of before. Happy New Year 🎉
He never ceases to amaze
When doing stuff like that...
My wife: but why?
Me: because I can, or just why not?
I would suggest some alluminium poles and a 4 point connector to join them to the cassette shaft to lighten the load. Also, you might be able to diminish that drooping pressure on the shaft connection to the 2" square if you use a threaded rod nut and a washer (probably would be easier to put the fins on too lol) that way you can control how big the air scoops are and potentially move the center of gravity closer to the support beam. Better balance
@ 7:54 that would be my speed. what a great project. :):):):)
nice rainbow in the second to last shot 13:56
Nice, the truck too
I’ve thought that windmills might be considered less of an eyesore if they were designed by creative thinkers. Nice project!
Brilliant and inspiring Paul. Good engineering test, and I'm wondering if swapping the wood for aluminum, carbon fiber or aluminum tubes, and eventually the Coroplast for Aluminum sheet might up the durability and failure point to truly dangerous levels?.
I love it ❣️ Very, very cool !!!
Awesome! I love it
I saw a blue pickup truck with a pinwheel in the back I thought I was high!!! 🤣🤣🤣 I saw this vide
would make the axis at 90 degrees, secured with a French hand. in the northern hemisphere I would put it to turn to the left. (coriolis effect) your project is very good. Tranks. hugs from brazil
Even minor asymmetries will probably introduce enough force and flex to destroy that wheel hub in a short time. Fun experiment though.
Very cool
Love it
Ivgot to try something similar im always thinking about windmills and kitys
😎 cool now build a bigger one made of metal and install it on a mountain watch it spin
Magnifique
Why not consider using something like that as a water turbine you could put a bunch of them on a shaft dipping in the water putting Float On The Water Somewhere and generate some electricity that way
I think if you left the wood slats off it would work better, the pin wheels you buy for toys use only the plastic without any supports.
Are you going to power a real scale whirligig with that pin wheel ?
what a far-better world (ie: USA) if Shop Class became a requirement in all Schooling!! Dang shame its NOT...anymore!! :-((( THAT's how one makes...America great again...for real!
i was just thinking wind generator.
How does it pivot to meet the wind?
wind genset
come on make a full size pop pop boat no one will make it
That's a thought....
I second this! Like in the movie Ponyo!💞
Love how your brain works. But standing on an overturned bucket as a step stool makes me cringe for your safety.
I spent years doing the bucket walk before I bought stilts. I was a drywall finisher.