Wind Power B/C

[science R]

please share some tips to make are turbine faster also what is a good website to find about the history about wind power?

[windu34]

please share some tips to make are turbine faster also what is a good website to find about the history about wind power?

Make it lighter. Study how real turbines work. The actual construction and some of the design cannot be applied, but you will certainly get ideas from looking through books on turbine design from your local university library

[freed2003]

please share some tips to make are turbine faster also what is a good website to find about the history about wind power?

play around with pitch, material, and blade number. also where you position the blades and the turbine is relative to the fan.

[Alex-RCHS]

They added a resistor to the setup this year. How does this affect blade design?

[daydreamer0023]

They added a resistor to the setup this year. How does this affect blade design?

As far as I remembered, we also had a resistor last year as well. It's just that this year, the range of what the resistance can be is larger. Adding resistance means that the blade needs to be able to generate power as it turns. This practically just means that having an extremely fast blade that weighs virtually nothing may not be able to get you as high of a score as a slightly heavier, slower blade.

Since they widened the range of resistance, it probably means that your blade needs to do well under both high and low resistances, as opposed to focusing on just the smaller, lower resistance range from last year's rules.

Let me know if I need to clarify anything!

[RestingDoll]

They added a resistor to the setup this year. How does this affect blade design?

As far as I remembered, we also had a resistor last year as well. It's just that this year, the range of what the resistance can be is larger. Adding resistance means that the blade needs to be able to generate power as it turns. This practically just means that having an extremely fast blade that weighs virtually nothing may not be able to get you as high of a score as a slightly heavier, slower blade.

Since they widened the range of resistance, it probably means that your blade needs to do well under both high and low resistances, as opposed to focusing on just the smaller, lower resistance range from last year's rules.

Let me know if I need to clarify anything!

I'm not quite sure I understand why faster blades don't generate more power. The faster the blade, the more revolutions there are that dictate the amount of output voltage; the higher the voltage, the more power generated (v^2/r). Am I missing something here? Or is there another variable attached with maximum voltage?

[chalker]

I'm not quite sure I understand why faster blades don't generate more power. The faster the blade, the more revolutions there are that dictate the amount of output voltage; the higher the voltage, the more power generated (v^2/r). Am I missing something here? Or is there another variable attached with maximum voltage?

All other things being equal, a faster blade will generate more power than a slower blade on the exact same setup. The key though is that the resister via something called back-emf actually causes physical resistance to the blade turning. So a blade designed to turn really fast at low resistance might actually end up turned rather slow at larger resistances. The best analogy to this is to consider what would happen if you took a typical airplane propeller and tried to use it underwater as a boat propeller. It wouldn't work very well (assuming you had everything water tight of course and didn't short out the electronics). A boat propeller looks a lot different than an airplane propeller due to the resistance it encounters.

[Alex-RCHS]

Ok, that makes some sense to me.

Do you all think it would be worth it to buy a resistor and attach it to our testing setup?

[chalker]

Ok, that makes some sense to me.

Do you all think it would be worth it to buy a resistor and attach it to our testing setup?

Yes. Resistors are very cheap. You might be able to disassemble some old electronics and find one you can salvage from them.

[dragonfruit35]

What are the barebones materials needed to create the motor?

I have a voltmeter, wires, and a resistor. I understand how to connect everything together what pieces the CD motor is made out of if I'm making it from scratch. I have a limited budget so I want to cut out anything not required.

Is this all I need? How does the motor connect to the circuit?
https://www.jameco.com/z/RF-310TA-11400 ... 38465.html


Thanks.

You're not going to be able to make the CD motor from scratch. If you check Amazon, there's a bunch of them for $7 or less. Ebay has some for even cheaper, but watch out and don't get anything that ships from outside the US - they may take months to arrive.

I'd get a motor with the hub for the CD already on it. Otherwise you could use the motor you linked, but you'd need to create a piece to attach the hub to the spindle.

Thank you, andrew & chalker. So would this product be good? And all I do is connect it to the circuit?
https://www.amazon.com/uxcell-Uxcell-Pl ... s=cd+motor


Just to clarify what the 'CD Motor' does... Is it like a generator, in place of a battery? Does the CD Motor create an emf which causes a flow through the circuit?

This is actually almost the exact motor I used last year. It should work fine! Something the others didn't mention that you'll need is a way to make a stand for your assembly. I used PVC pipe. Also, if I have the time, I can make a circuit diagram for everybody later.