After finishing the tower and the HughPiggott 1.8 meter somewhere halfway the master class (as you can read in the last news contribution), all participants were confident that we also could succeed with the larger model. Last week we worked on two turbines with a rotor diameter of 3.0 meter; one producing 24V and one… Read more »
The last couple of days in the Master Class are marvelous! On 8 september, my birthday, the group finished the first turbine. It is a Piggott design with a rotor diameter of 1.8 meter charging one 12V battery. During the afternoon, the wind picked up. It was fantastic to see the wind turbine speeding up… Read more »
The mission of ‘I Love Windpower – Tanzania’ is to demonstrate the ability to build small-scale wind turbines by Tanzanians themselves. Therefore a very intensive master class is running the first three weeks of september. Thanks to the financial contribution of the Dutch NGO ‘Hivos’, it is possible to purchase all the necessary building materials… Read more »