Faroun Savonius Wind Turbine

Step 4 Turbine Assembly / howto put together

well this one goes like this:

i welded the blades insted of using angle brakets to hold them to disc, but you can use weld,steel brackets, wood brackets or grouve and glue them to disc and so on...

so after mounting the blades to discs into 3 sections and each section has 3 blades offset on top of each other by 60 degree, i then inserted the shaft into the center and adjusted for my setup distance, 4" away from bottom and the rest of the room left on top fpr my generator(later step).

after the shaft is in the desired spot i then used the pluming flange to fix the shaft to the blades.

I then placed the Bearings at the end of each end and voila it is assembled.

you noticed that it is in the cage (we will talk about the cage in aNOTHER STEP)

i dont think i miised anything.

faroun

Comments

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in the photo showing the weld it shows the seam is closed not to concern you too much but if you remember how an airplane wing gathers lift the pressure under the wing on back side matters. wind approach the rotor has no place to go within the rotor. If it were allowed to escape there might make a difference. Something was mentioned on one of the sites that showed rotor layout it showed the design all gaps eliminated vs gaps left and claimed the gap allowed pressure to excape. If thats so a mod there might help going to be hard to do now it's assembled. or an avasay has been shown to enhance this pressure differential an avasay (a - vas- E - A) channels wind towards the rotor usually when the rotor is built into a hillside or from a naturally occuring feature of the land or building landscape. thumbs up on the all aluminuym design. and great thought on the three blade desig as well. A pipe frame can be constructed using some pipe fitting and a pipe threader or these days a metal chop saw may work faster and better. Again great looking design and good choice Aluminum turbine my shaft was solid is yours solid or hollow?