WIND TURBINE

This low-cost wind turbine was developed for educational use at British Council events. It comes as a complete easy-to-assemble unit capable of powering a buzzer,

LED or solar motor.

• The unit will generate enough power to light an LED when placed in front of a domestic fan.
• The turbine unit comprises six 3mm corriflute blades each of which can be separately angled by twisting on their aluminium spokes.
• This facilitates several performance investigations. If the blades are angled too steeply, for example, the turbine slows because of drag.
• Other variables can be introduced by cutting different sized blades from our standard 3mm corriflute.
• The wind turbine has many uses in both science and design and technology, and is now available at approximately one third of the cost of comparable demonstration units.