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Wind Turbine

This wind turbine project was developed during high school. The turbine was charging a lead-acid battery.

Picture of wind turbine

I built a simple charge controller based on a 555 timer chip. The two comparators in the chip could be used to set the high and low cutoff voltage for the charge controller.

Picture of wind turbine drivetrain Picture of wind turbine charge controller