What happens when Richard has a dead HP laser printer, some scrap lumber and wire ... a wind generator.

Here it is, my wind generator expirments. I got ahold of an old HP Laserjet printer that just happens to have a 24 volt stepper motor in it. I rigged it up on a frame, got my brother and my dad to build me a hub and a yaw bearing/pivot point.
I got it all together, and to test it I rigged it up in the back of my truck and went to my super secret testing lab.

I had 2 100 amp hour batteries I salvaged from an old UPS, they were hooked up to my rectifiers, volt meter, and amp meter.

I am happy to report it worked. The bad news is it didn't work as well as I had hoped. Using my meters that I had rigged up, here is my output at 35 MPH

(Amps on left, Volts on right, totaling 2 watts)

Here was my speed

Unfortunately, I was hopeing for alot more output at lower speeds. It seemed under 20 MPH, I didn't get any output from the generator. Using the data from my weather station in my backyard, I don't think I am going to get any power out of this unless it was mounted on a mountain side like Pikes that sees alot of wind.