I have a quick question: I made for my terrace a small windmill in recovery material: a stainless steel tube with a barrel like mat, two small scooter wheels (especially the bearings) for the axis of the mill and to let it turn to catch the wind in front, one or two stainless steel bolts and nuts, and for the blades to date an aluminum door threshold that I cut into 5 sections and that I fixed on the wheel. For the moment no tail line, it balances alone in front of the wind.
The prototype turns quite well, but as you can imagine it only turns when the wind gets a little strong. The blades are functional but not optimal (to put it mildly ...).
So I wanted to know what could I try to mount as blades on my wind turbine. I have 5 spokes on my scooter wheel (the small wheels that look like roller skates) through which I have passed bolts to fix my current blades). So I'm looking for 5 blades that are more optimal than my door sill tips.
I thought of airplane or radio controlled helicopter blades, but I wonder if it is really optimal as blades or if I must necessarily turn to something more "serious". Knowing that I try the experiment in recovery. only and that I could ask the local RC store if they don't have any blades to liquidate, that would tempt me more than ordering wind turbine blades which cost an arm ...
I am not looking for the performance, but just to watch the beast spin when there is wind ... A blow of color bomb and here is the brightened terrace :-)
Thank you in advance for your ideas or comments. I will post the photos shortly
