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Experimenting with building a wind turbine and I'm trying to find a suitable motor.
I got this induction motor out of a washing machine and have hooked it up through a bridge rectifier and a smoothing capacitor.
Spinning the motor shaft by hand (a crude way of modeling how fast the wind will rotate the blades) I am able to achieve around 9-11V no problem.
I'm told I need at least 14V to charge 12V deep cycle batteries, my question is: is there anything I can do to achieve a higher voltage from this setup? I'm thinking modifying the motor to achieve this. Or am I going to have to find a new motor?
Here's a pic of the motor if that helps
http://img211.imageshack.us/img211/7842/dscf0004pz2.th.jpg
I got this induction motor out of a washing machine and have hooked it up through a bridge rectifier and a smoothing capacitor.
Spinning the motor shaft by hand (a crude way of modeling how fast the wind will rotate the blades) I am able to achieve around 9-11V no problem.
I'm told I need at least 14V to charge 12V deep cycle batteries, my question is: is there anything I can do to achieve a higher voltage from this setup? I'm thinking modifying the motor to achieve this. Or am I going to have to find a new motor?
Here's a pic of the motor if that helps
http://img211.imageshack.us/img211/7842/dscf0004pz2.th.jpg
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