User:Pjmarsden/enes100/My Work 2nd 4 week cycle

''This is designed for a person working on a project for 4 weeks as part of a 3 credit class. Please copy this form to your user page. Then delete everything in italics when filling out this form.''

Write problem/project Goal
I want to build a full scale working wind turbine to generate and store electricity. I have already worked with many prototypes and I am ready to move forward.

My First Task
My first task will be to find a suitable wind gernerator that will generate high voltage at a low RPM.

Summary of actual work over first weekend
How is what you did different than what you planned?

Week1 Narrative
Tell a detailed story describing what you did for your team over the weekend.

My Second Task
Record what you are planning on doing for the team during the second weekend.

Summary of actual work over second weekend
In the second week I planned on coming up with a way to produce more power. To do this I needed a bigger generator so I found ceiling fan motors in the lab that i thought would fit the bill. So I spent the whole week trouble shooting them.

Week2 Narrative
In week two I begun to dissect a ceiling fan motor to determine how to harness its power

This is a picture of what I was working with

The first thing I did was start to hook up to various wires to test the continuity There was a pair of wires that worked and a pair that didn't work so I was assuming there were 2 coils inside the motor and one must have not been working.

So next I wanted to see if the 2 wires that were working would produce a voltage. So i disassembled all the wires except for the two that were still working. below is all the wires I removed.

These 2 wires were not working so i decided to open the motor up to take a closer look. So as you can see my prediction about there being two coils was correct now I just needed to determine what coil was working and what one was not.

Next I separated all the wires so I could tell where they went and which coil was working After testing the wires out again I found the outside coil was not working. So I wanted to find out why because the inside coil was to far from the magnet to be able to generate a voltage.

After examination I found that one of the coils in the outside coil had a major break in it. So after I determined that this would not work I needed to find something else that would work. The one good thing I took out of this was getting a good understanding of how a ceiling fan works.

My Third task
Record what you are planning on doing for the team during the third weekend.

Summary of actual work over third weekend
How is what you did different than what you planned?

Week3 Narrative
Tell a detailed story describing what you did for your team over the weekend.

My Fourth task
Record what you are planning on doing for the team during the final weekend of project work.

Summary of actual work over fourth weekend
I week 4 I planned on integrating the LED voltage gauge to the wind turbine assembly.

Week4 Narrative
The first thing to do before adding the circuit into the pole of the wind turbine was to hard wire it outside of a breadboard.

This is a diagram of the circuit to be constructed.

To compleate this task I had to solder many connections. Here is a link to a tutorial on how to soldier an LED to a wire how to soilder and LED

After soldering all of the connections to the circuit this was this is what it looked like

Next I drilled holes in the pole to mount the LEDs to.

Then I glued the LEDs in the holes.

To connect the circuit to the motor I got the wiring harness that came with the motor and soldered them together.

Here is the wiring harness.

Now I was mounting the motor back to the pole, but i encountered a problem because the motor body was pinching the wires.

So I cut a slit in the pole to fit the wires.

After all this work here is a video of the final product of the LED gauge. LED power gauge

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