Residential Wind Power

I got an email yesterday from one of our readers at residential wind power called Mike.  Mike saw our review of the wind turbine plans a few weeks back and wanted to give the plans a go.  He bought the plans and has since finished his vertical wind turbine following the wind turbine plans in the guide we recommended.  Here is what mike had to say:

Hi Barry,

First off I want to let you know that I have been a long time reader of your site residential wind power.  I stumbled across your site a few years back when I was looking at installing a wind turbine and regularly come back to see what is going on with wind turbines.

I have wanted to build my own wind turbine for a long time now but I have never got the courage up to do it. I am not very experienced with tools or anything like that I was a bit worried that I wouldn’t be able to complete the project.   After reading your review of the best wind turbine plans I thought I might as well just jump in and have a go, after all what have I got to lose?

I went ahead and purchased the wind turbine plans that you recommended here and all of the information was sent to me instantly.  The kit came with guides on how to build a wind turbine which I am most interested in and also a few guides on how to build solar panels.  Although I am not into solar panels that much I might give building one a go seen as though I got the plans bundled in with the kit!

The kit was awesome it even come with videos and very detailed diagrams on what to put where so it made it very easy for a DIY novice like me.  For $49 the kit was an absolute bargain!

I went down to the hardware store to source the materials that I needed to construct the wind turbine and was pretty happy as it only came to $97 at the hard ware store.  So far so good.

When I got back from the hardware store I went about building the wind generator in the guide and it just came together so easy.  In the end it took me 5 hours to build the wind turbine from scratch when I followed the plan and now I have a home wind turbine for under $150 that is probably worth ten times as much!

I got an electrician to wire it in to the house so that I could push the energy generated from the wind turbine back onto the grid.  This took him about 1.5 hours.  The wind turbine is putting out some great power in low winds which is great as my home is in a fairly low wind area.

I am so stoked that I went ahead and bought the plans as I now can sit back and watch my homemade wind turbine generate clean renewable energy for my home.  Thanks for pointing me in the right direction Barry.  I have included a picture of my wind turbine for you.

Take it easy,

Mike Doolan

As you can see from Mikes review building a DIY wind turbine is easy and it doesn’t have to cost an arm and a leg to do it.  This is the wind turbine review Mike was talking about and this is the wind turbine plan that mike purchased.

If any other readers have had similar success with their wind turbines we would love to hear about it.