Testimonials

Customers are constantly writing to us and telling us about their home-built wind generators. They send us photos, upload their videos, share their stories and experiences in building wind generators using Windy Nation components. Here's what some of them had to share! If you'd like to share your photos and experiences, email them to info@windynation.com.

Kevin's Amp-Crankin' Home-Built Wind Turbine

Kevin is using our 500 Watt Permanent Magnet Alternator (PMA) with 30-inch aluminum wind generator blades from Windy Nation. Everything else on his wind generator was fabricated by Kevin.

Here's what Kevin wrote us:

Hello I purchased one of your 500 watt PMA's this summer and I can't say anything other than it is great. The blades are quiet and whatever this motor came off of is well-built and seems like it going to last... unlike the toy treadmill motors I burnt thru in a matter of a month. I would like to buy another blade mount from you if I could.

Best regards, Kevin
P.S. I attached a few pics for you feel free to add to your web page....if you want to”

Hell yes, Kevin! We definitely want to post the pics!

Bob's Beautiful Home-Built Generator

Bob is using our HyperSpin series 5-blade set here, and matching it with a re-wound Delco alternator. He was having trouble getting his generator to spin in low winds using a different company's blades.

We promised him that our five HyperSpin blades would dramatically increase the low-wind performance of his wind generator. This is what Bob wrote:

Hi Josh,
The HyperSpin 5's are up and producing electricity; they are all you said and perform better in our low turbulent wind under discharged battery load than anything we could have hoped for.

The wind today was nice and steady[...] 10 to 13.8 mph. I had discharged our battery by using this desktop computer and lights in the AM before we got the mill setup; with the HyperSpin 5's and nice wind, the Delco PMA soon had the load controller coming on so I added another discharged battery to the bank which was fully charged by night fall and wind down.

Thanks for your time and help, I'll insert some pics now and my nephew may try to get a short movie for you soon.

Bob

Robert's Rustic Wind Generator

This is Robert’s custom built prototype wind generator in Utah. He even built the beautiful wooden tower himself! He is using a custom PMA which is powered by our HyperSpin series five blade set.

Robert plans on custom building wind turbines and wooden towers to sell to the public.

Roger's Jammin' Jamaican Wind Generator

These are two pictures of Roger’s custom built wind turbine in Jamaica, which I have nicknamed “The Beast”. He's using our 80-inch aluminum WindGrabber blade set and a 4 horsepower (beastly) permanent magnet motor. They have custom fabricated all the other components themselves. This wind turbine should easily produce several hundred Watts in moderate winds and over a kilowatt in strong winds.

All that is left for them to do is build the tower …. He's been promising us more pictures to come!

Don't forget about us, Roger!

I know you probably can make some decent blades from the PVC pipe but as far as I am concerned, all the pipe I had been collecting for blades will now go to some other project. Since purchasing the Windy Nation blades, I just would not use anything else.

From murray2paddles

Hyperspin is the best we have used all the competition and were even a dealer for three years of the black plastic blades which seemed to break every time we turned around. Or they will bend in high winds and make a god awful vibration. The hyperspin are the quietest and strongest. We just recently finished our testing of our 2000 watt turbine. Yakataga point were the turbine was stationed reached a wind speed of 115mph for 1.2 seconds. The turbine and blades are good to go no damage at all in fact it produced a massive 2.3kw when that wind speed hit it.

From clarence1984

... The blades are perfectly balanced these blades were worth the investment the only work that needed to be done was adapting to the 3/4 motor shaft. Oh yes let me tell you before i built this turbine i had bought one of those PVC turbines wish i would have took pic's of its self-destruction I had found blades nearly 200ft from the crash sight!

From CoolZilla

Hi.. Just wanted to say that the 2 sets of blades I purchased are doing great! I have 2 setups... The high RPM on a 2 hp PM and I easily get 13-15 Volts. The 3-blade 80 inch is on a 2.5 hp PM and is geared up. I've seen it go as high as 64 Volts. I think it'll do better... Thank you for a great product.

From Ken in Maryland, USA