I felt that verticle wind pump should be more simple to make and with available resources locally. I feel it will be very difficult to mount the rotating main axis. The pole is supposed to rotate from ground upto a height of 20 feet. That is going to put a lot of weight on the pivotal bottom.
Therefore I changed the design. In the new design the windmill flaps will be supported by a large PVC outer pipe. This pipe alone will rotate. This will be coupled to a fixed flag pole through ball bearing. Thus rotational part is limited only to propeller.
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Note the PVC pipe from propeller placed over the fixed mast (yellow). The power will be transferred using V Belt and flywheel. Later I want to replace this with bicycle free wheel and chain. |
Further the energy should be transmitted to the gear assembly through bicycle free wheel and chain.
I communicated this to Subbu. In fact Subbu and Paramu are so enthusiastic they have already ventured to Valliyoor to inspect the old gears at a workshop. That is good.
Today Subbu should take printouts of what I sent from the Valliyoor browsing centre. He had already visited Valliyoor 2 times. I told him to go slow. But he would'nt listen.
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This is how the finished one should look. Except for PVC modification |
Meanwhile my post to facebook is drafted and kept ready. I must try my hands on sketchup software to draw a cycle chain with links today. That will complete my art work. I may post this tomorrow.
I am sure marginal and small farmers will benefit from this design. My guess is it should not take more than 30,000/- for this.
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