How easy is it to build a Windmill Generator for your home?

Well many believe that it must be difficult or maybe that is is expensive. The truth is, that anyone with some common sense, a few decent tools and a decent plan, can build a wind generator.

Let us understand how they work first of all.  A wind generator extracts some of the power from the wind blowing (and it doesn’t need to be more than a few miles per hour) and by rotating, converts the wind energy directly into electricity.  Pretty cool huh!

Now you could bound around your garage throwing bits together and see if it works (this can be fun), but better still is to search out some sensible guidance from the joys of the Internet.  There is lots of advice, photos and videos, so get to understand the subject a little and hear some of the success tales of good wind generator construction.

If you have a good guide or some plans already, so much the better, since you should have a headstart on having to experiment and calculate everything yourself!
There are only a few elements to bring together for a decent wind generator:

Some type of turbine blade (so that the wind is efficiently tapped for energy),
An effective electric motor to convert wind energy through rotation to electrical current,
Ideally, a tail (or vane) to ensure that your blades on the wind generator face into the wind for the maximum amount of time and some connection to your home electrical system or batteries to store the power generated.

Now, of course any number of these areas can be challenging, but stick with it a while and we will try to keep it simple!

Below is a great video about building a wind generator – I hope you enjoy!