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 »
Like mentioned earlier, the prototype of the 3 meter diameter HughPiggott turbine was finished some weeks ago. Unfortunately the wind at the location of the workshop is only high enough druing a couple of hours per day, and this even not on all days. During the assembly phase, we measured the correct voltage at a… Read more »
Stichting Overal has expressed encouraging and kind words over the Mali Windpower project and has financed the project with 5.000 euro’s. This support made it possible to contribute to the important and fragile phase where the wind turbine project needs to ramp up to a level where it can start standing on its own feet…. Read more »
With all preparations for the upcoming training, I nearly forgot to communicate that our proto-type is up and running for allready two weeks. In the beginning of july we started the building of this proto-type. We had to figure out where to buy components for the best price. Quality had to be checked carefully, because… Read more »