Package Includes PicoTurbine Savonius Wind Turbine v2 Windmill & Rectification Experiments kit
Multimeter + Free SciFair eBook
High School thru College
Add to Cart at bottom of the page.
Its also perfect for teaching about Wind Energy in the classroom.
Assembled PicoTurbine Savonius v2 Plus Educational Wind Turbine
Note, this kit comes unassembled.
You build the windmill.
The PV2 is an upgraded version of the original PicoTurbine which has been used by tens of thousands of students, homeschoolers, and adult hobbyists to learn about Savonius Vertical Axis wind power.
Rectification kit
Includes 12 page manual guide.
Cen-Tech Multimeter
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Science Fair Project Ideas
~ If the platform of your wind turbine is wobbly will the magnets spin? How much "wobble room" do you have?
~ What produces more energy, warm air or hot air? You can use a hair dryer and measure your results with the mulimeter.
Exampe hypothesis: Warm air produces more energy than cold air.
~ Test different wind turbine blade configurations, various generator components,
the effects of changing wind speeds, or other experiments that are only limited by your imagination.
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PicoTurbine Windmill Kit V2 is a fully functioning Savonius wind turbine. It stands 8" tall and produces between 2.0-3.0 volts which is enough to light up a bicolor LED (included). The LED flashes red and green to show the alternating current produced.
The kit can be easily built in less than one hour. With some adult supervision the kit can be built by children as young as 10 years old.
Included in the PicoTurbine Windmill Kit V2
- 4 pre-wound coils of enamel coated copper wire
- 4 ceramic grade-5 magnets
- 1 (5 1/4) disk
- 1 bicolor light emitting diode (LED) with 2 leads
- 1 (1/2) Phillips head (cross slot) screw
- 1 eye-hook screw
- 1 wooden dowel
- 1 piece of wood about 6 by 6 and ½ thick (for the base)
- 1 strip of double-sided tape
- 1 small piece of sandpaper for stripping the copper wire
- Manual and Template
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The Rectification kit and Windmill kit come packaged together.
The kit includes all parts that you will need:
4 light emitting diode (LED) with 2 leads
2 electrolytic capacitors
1 piezo buzzer
A solderless breadboard and 8 jumper wires
Instructions booklet includes teacher's guide and technical notes. The guide shows you how to build 4 different circuits and test them.
Circuits explained include:
A simple half-wave rectifier,
A half-wave rectifier with smoothing capacitors,
A full wave "bridge" rectifier with and without smoothing, and
A voltage doubling rectifier.
Many adults who are considering home power systems will profit from the lessons taught by these simple experiments. Each experiment takes from 10 to 15 minutes to perform, a perfect length of time for classroom use.
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The Cen-Tech Multimeter is excellent for measuring your output of electricity from all of the PicoTurbines Science Kits. It displays AC millivolts, adds another dimension to your experiments, and helps to tune the alternator.
You will get accurate readings for DC voltage, DC current, AC voltage, resistance, transistor test, diode test, and battery test. Easy-to-read 3-1/2 digit LCD readout, positive set selector switch, and 32" leads. Automatic zero adjust Overange indicator 2.5x second sample time Low battery indicator Fuse and diode protected circuit.
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Warning for all kits on this page.
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Note: Only the multimeter comes
assembled. You receive parts to
build the other items pictured.
To put together your own wind energy package
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Cool PicoTurbine Savonius v2 Plus Educational Wind Turbine
Windmill & Conversion of AC to DC Rectifier Science Fair Kit
(Includes PicoTurbine Savonius v2 Plus Educational Wind Turbine Windmill & Rectifier Kit - packaged together, Multimeter + Free SciFair eBook, a $21.95 bonus gift and download to 50 free science fair project abstracts and ideas.)
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