If you want to build your own wind turbine, the only thing better than reading our book is to get actual hands-on experience building turbines at a seminar. We have a few coming up this year–and we highly recommend them. When you leave, you’ll have a detailed understanding of exactly how to do each procedure in our book!

• Homebrew Wind Turbine Construction Seminar, August 17-22 2009, at the Otherpower wind turbine shop, 35 miles West of Fort Collins, Colorado, USA. This will be a hands-on, 6-day, very intensive turbine building seminar that will end with a complete wind turbine install and erection. Loads of fun and great knowledge to be gained by everyone. Expect to be completely exhausted by the end of it! Registration is NOW OPEN, and class i capped at 12 students, so register early.

• Homebrew Wind Turbine Construction Seminar, July 25-31 2009, Gerald, Missouri. More details, costs, and online registration (now OPEN) are available at the Evergreen Institute website. This will be a hands-on, 6-day, very intensive turbine building seminar that will end with a complete wind turbine install and erection. Loads of fun and great knowledge to be gained by everyone. Expect to be completely exhausted by the end of it!

• Rocky Mountain Sustainable Living Fair, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA — September 18 to 20, 2009. We’ve been giving these short, 2-day seminars at the Fair for quite a few years now, and they are an excellent and inexpensive introduction to building a wind turbine from scratch. Registration not yet open, detailed info TBA.
• Contact us for more information if you want to book a seminar of your own here in Colorado for 2-4 students, or seminar at your own location. Many of these seminars we put on are made possible by grant money from universities and community colleges, who sponsor instructors and professors to attend. We can also provide references from past seminars.

Hello all –
In our Wind Turbine User’s Manual, we tell readers to contact us for details on how to fabricate the jacking screws and safely remove the front magnet rotor. Of course if you built your turbine from scratch you already have the tools and know how to do this, but some folks buy the completed turbine ‘kit’ from us and never had to go through this (somewhat) tricky and dangerous procedure.

So, DanB recently wrote a page that describes the procedure in detail for the un-initiated. It does have some good, new information about what to look for during inspection and maintenance, even if you already know how to take your alternator apart.
The new page is here:
http://www.otherpower.com/disassemble.shtml

Have fun with the wind –

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