VAWT Project Fights Its Way Forward

I vote to do it right, and not cut corners. Thats just me

RVZ717,

Thanks for the response. And, yeah, me too. I've built three stators, however - this one is the third - and just can't seem to get the product I want. Each mistake costs my pocket book, too.

Of course, I'm learning, and the next stator mold will take into account everything I've learned. In case anybody else is doing something like this, or might be intending it, I also screwed up when I poured the resin around the magnets on my rotor plates, that when I poured too much and covered them. The rotors wound up being too thick, the result that I'm having to laboriously grind them down to size.

Ah, well. Like I said, I'm learning. If I put this damned thing together and the rotor plates touch the stator, I'm screwed: I'd probably have to build a wheel-puller to get them apart and that would no doubt damage the magnets. Then, too, if the stator fails after I put the rest of the together, charge controller and the rest, and get thing up on the roof, I'm also screwed.

I think I'm about to design another stator. Thanks again for the input.

Glyptal red insulating enamel. It is available in spray cans for easy application.

See here: http://www.glyptal.com/1201tech001.pdf

It's made for what you are trying to do. Nearly any electrical supply house will have it or a reasonable facsimile. It should be available anywhere in the world.

TT3

THANKS! Great idea!

'Paint' it with epoxy resin, then blast it with a hot air gun that will help it flow and cure quick too.
Ok, you've made a few mistakes..but press on...that's how we all learn.
Get it finished, then worry about the mkII.
Good luck
Del

Thanks for the response. I'm concerned about thickness, and I've already tried using the resin I made the stator from. That added too much to the stator dimensions, and I had to sand it off. I didn't try the air gun, though, and I'll remember that for my next attempt at a stator.

And yes, I'm learning from my mistakes - just "pissed" that I didn't think of them before I made them. I ought to be smarter than that at my age.

Thanks, again.

Sure wish I could get to my old links...

There are a bunch on the web up some canyon in Colorado I ran into because they were restoring an old steam engine and making their own generators.

Great tall old engine whose name I cannot recall

I gotta get some off-board storage for my brain