Making Fiberglass Wind Turbine Blades
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Making Fiberglass Wind Turbine Blades - part 6 of the Reaper wind turbine build. In this video I cast fiberglass wind turbine blades for the turbine using DIY fiberglass molds (see link below for mold video). The blades were cast in two main pieces - a front shell and a back shell. Shear webs were installed along the length of the blade, and a wood core was installed in the hub mount. The two shells were then bonded together. The lay-up for each shell consists of 4 alternating layers of 7 oz fiberglass cloth and 2 oz fiberglass matt. The cloth layers were oriented so that the weave patterns were at 45 degrees to each other. The weight of the new fiberglass blade is ~9 lbs, the weight of the wood master blade is ~8 lbs. A link to a static load test video can be found below. Tower installation is next!
Reaper project details: https://www.renewablesystemstechnology.com/3-kw-axial-flux-hawt
Making the fiberglass molds:
http://bit.ly/FiberglassMolds
Static load test video:
http://bit.ly/BladeLoadTest
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