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If you are thinking of living "off the grid" you've in all likelihood investigated purchasing solar panels or a aerogenerator. The trouble might be that they are just too costly to purchase decent solar panels or a large enough wind turbine without bankrupting yourself. We've been there. At the time when we originaly began living off grid we hardly made adequate income to build our own house. So how could we afford powering our home? We were talking to our friend Oscar and he reassured us that it was fairly simple to construct a windmill. He assured us that there are quite a lot of designs accessible online to download. Bad mistake! We did not understand any of the projects that we got online. It always appeared that the writer merely needed to prove to the world that he was the most intelligent individual in existents. We ended up spending well over $100 on plans until we decided to do the research ourself and build our own. It tooks us over 5 months of research to get our aerogenerator working well, but in peak wind it generates well over 1200 watts. We then chose to arrange the hard learned facts into simple plans so that even the non-technically inclined could build their own wind-mill. The Home made aerogenerator Challenge * the designs needs to be easy to follow and understand * it has to generate over 1000 watts of electicity * less than 100 dollars to build * original blueprint for the home-made aerogenerator * uses only readily accessible material * must be effortless to build and set up * Rugged enough to hold up to the tough Mid west winds * and it has to have a nice appearence We have shown these designs to Oscar and he said he wish that we'd shown him these plans before! He experienced the same problems that we had. he did not understand most of the plans that he came acrossed neither. Our newly built wind turbine now sits on top of the rebuilt TV tower spinning away producing power for our home. Mail us the pics from your finished project and we'll post them to our website! We've had lots of fun discovering how to make a wind turbine and we want to share that fun with you. We could have dropped 1000s on a commercial wind generator but why? And we give this promise to you: these designs do conform to the above-mentioned demands, and it will require some work on your part. .

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