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Homemade Windpower. Wind powered system, include which generators, blades and other instructions on how to make wind systems at home.
- All you need to know about Fisher and Paykel Alternators - Fisher and Paykel alternators are great, often free generators that are idea for wind power.
  - Where to find a F&P smartdrive
  - How to remove one from a washing machine
  - Parts of the Fisher and Paykel Smart Drive - What parts will you need to make your generator.
  - Rewiring basics - Once you have them how do you convert them into something more useful (12 volt output).
  - Rewiring advanced
  - AC to DC conversion - Convert the generator output so your windmill can produce DC rather than AC windpower.
  - Fisher and Paykel Forum - Discuss your generator project with others.
- Instructions on Carving your own homemade wooden wind turbine blades for your windmill.
- Protecting you windmill from excessive wind speeds
- PVC Windmill blades - Quick, easy, cheap and light. Well worth a look.
- How much power can you get from the wind? - From wind speed to Watts.
Putting together a Solar System. - A basic, no knowledge assumed, set of instructions that build up from an easy system with a solar panel and battery to a more and more complex one with solar arrays, batteries, charge controllers, inverters and even panel positioning.
- Overview An overview of the whole solar system.
- Battery and panels - Starting off what decisions do you need to make to start your homemade solar power project.
- Battery Charging - getting the power of the sun into a usable form.
- Inverters - Getting the power out of your batteries into a more useable form.
- Positioning your Solar panels. - Get the most of your solar panels by pointing it in the right direction.
- Types of Solar Panels and Cells - which ones are the best and what you should look for.
- Solar Collectors - Homemade solar collectors, what are they and how do they work.
Electronics
- How to build smart systems with logic gates and switches. These are very simple instructions on how to build basic to very clever systems with cheap and reusable "plug and play" devices.
  - And Gates
- Grid-Powered Battery Charger - This is article from Tom Woods is about how to build a controller switch that will connect a grid-powered battery charger to one's solar or wind battery bank. The grid charger kicks in when poor weather conditions do not permit wind or solar energy production. The circuit protects the battery bank from damage due to chronic under charging, and it allows maintaining the loads on the alternative energy circuit even if they temporarily exceed the solar or wind electric production. The circuit is fully automatic.
Using Green.
- Using LED's - Instructions for beginners on how to wire and install these great low consumption, low level lights.
Energy usage Worksheet. A Worksheet to help you figure out what you energy needs are.

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