Educational Package
Assembled PicoTurbine
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.
It's great for energy science fair projects, science reports, or just plain fun!
DC Experiments Kit
Includes 12 page manual guide.
Wind: Today, people realize that wind power is one of the most promising new energy sources that can serve as an alternative to fossil fuel-generated electricity.
Have your students investigate the pros and cons of wind energy.
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Science Fair Project Ideas
~ Each student or group of students uses different materials for the shell of the turbine windmil. See which one has the smoothest motion and least wobble whenspinning.
~ Compare different widths of blades to determine which has more energy power.
Exampe hypothesis: The wind turbine with the thinner blades will have more energy power.
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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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Warning for all kits on this page.
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Note: 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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All kits from with a free download of the Super Science Fair Projects ebook, a $19.95 value.
PicoTurbine Windmill & DC Experiments SciFair Projects Kit + Free SciFair eBook
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