Discount Educational Package
Assembled PicoTurbine Windmill
This kit has been used by thousands of students, home schoolers, and even adult
hobbyists to learn about wind power and do energy science fair projects.
It's been used by major universities such as MIT and Caltech, as well as the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) for summer youth programs.
Have an extraordinary experience doing renewable energy science fair projects, science reports, or just plain fun!
DC Experiments Kit
Includes 12 page manual guide.
Advanced Deluxe Solar Electricity Education Kit
Cen-Tech Multimeter
Warning for all kits on this page.
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Science Fair Project Ideas
~ Does wind power produce more energy than solar/wind combination?
~ Does solar energy alone produce more energy than wind power?
Measure all voltage current with the multimeter to make your determination.
Exampe hypothesis: A 3 cell solar panel produces as much energy as a 6 cell panel.
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With the PicoTurbine Windmill Kit will build
a fully functioning, electricity-producing scale model of a wind turbine.
The windmill stands 8" tall, produces between 1.7 and 2.5 volts which can light up a bicolor LED
(included) that flashes red and green to show the alternating current produced.
The kit can be easily built in under one hour, less time if used as a group project.
It is the only kit of its kind to demonstrate the power of
wind as a renewable energy resource.
Test different wind turbine blade configurations, various generator components,
the effects of changing wind speeds, or other experiments that are only limited by your imagination.
Each kit includes all the parts you need:
- Four strong magnets (ceramic grade 5-1"x1.75" x 0.25")
- Pre-wound enamel coated copper wire into 4 coils. This saves about 30 minutes from typical project build time over wrapping your own!
- Two feet of 10 gauge aluminum wire for the yoke
- One bi-color light emitting diode LED (red and green) - 2 leads
- A piece of 8" longwooden dowel, sharpened on one end to use as the axel
- A 5" by 8" by 1/2" thick piece of plywood used as a base for the project
- 3-phillips head cross slot screws
- One piece corrugated cardboard about 8" by 10"
- Three retaining lips (small semi-circular metal e-clips)
- One strop of pre-cut double-sided tape pads
- One samll piece of sandpaper for stripping copper wire
- Instruction booklet, including teacher's guide and technical notes.
- Paper templates for cardboard cutout pieces
- The Manual contains classroom ideas and experiments,
as well as technical notes for older students or adult experimenters.
All you must provide are some easily found tools and materials:
Gluestick or glue
A Phillips' screwdriver and scissors
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This kit and the Windmill kit come packaged together.
Each kit includes all parts that you will need:
Four diodes
Two electrolytic capacitors
A solderless breadboard and 8 jumper wires
One piezo buzzer
One bicolor LED
Instruction booklet includes teacher's guide and technical notes. The guide shows you how to build 4 different circuits and test them.
Circuits explained include:
A simple half-wave rectifier,
A half-wave rectifier with smoothing capacitors,
A full wave "bridge" rectifier with and without smoothing, and
A voltage doubling rectifier.
Many adults who are considering home power systems will profit from the lessons taught by these simple experiments. Each experiment takes from 10 to 15 minutes to perform, a perfect length of time for classroom use.
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The Advanced Deluxe Solar Educational Kit teaches you how to convert sunlight into electricity. Includes manual guide.
Project Ideas
Make a solar circuit.
Make an electrical circuit.
Learn how to increase voltage.
Learn how to increase current.
Learn how to make a solar panel
Use solar power to produce the energy for a radio, calculator, battery charger or 1.5V cassette player
The solar cell comes with 8 solar cells, electric motor, propeller, buzzer, light bulb, wire and hardware.
The instruction manual teaches the concepts of solar electricity and gives experiments. Information includes how to connect solar cells to achieve variations in voltage and current, basic circuit concepts, and theory of solar cell construction.
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The Cen-Tech Multimeter is excellent for measuring your output of electricity from all of the PicoTurbines Science Kits. It displays AC millivolts, adds another dimension to your experiments, and helps to tune the alternator.
You will get accurate readings for DC voltage, DC current, AC voltage, resistance, transistor test, diode test, and battery test. Easy-to-read 3-1/2 digit LCD readout, positive set selector switch, and 32" leads. • Automatic zero adjust • Overange indicator • 2.5x second sample time • Low battery indicator • Fuse and diode protected circuit.
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There are some interesting advantages of photovoltaic solar power that make it one of the most promising renewable energy sources in the world.
It is non-polluting, has no moving parts that could break down, requires little maintenance and no supervision, and has a life of 20-30 years with low running costs. It is especially unique because no large-scale installation is required. Remote areas can easily produce their own supply of electricity by constructing as small or as large of a system as needed.
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Note: Only the multimeter comes
assembled. You receive parts to
build the items pictured.
Packaging information
The windmill and DC kit comes in
one package.
If you need a different combination of items, please email
us for a quote: Madeline@super-science-fair-projects.com
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You will receive a free download of the Super Science Fair eBook, a $19.95 value.
PicoTurbine Windmill & Experiments kit, Advanced Deluxe Solar Kit, Multimeter
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