High School
Solar Wind SciFair Projects
with Hybrid Experiments Kit

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

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.

The Advanced Deluxe Solar Educational Kit teaches you how to convert sunlight into electricity. Includes manual guide. Project Ideas Make a solar circuit. Learn how to make a solar panel Make an electrical circuit. Learn how to increase voltage. Learn how to increase current. You will also be able to use solar power to produce the calculator, energy for a radio, battery charger or 1.5V cassette player. The solar cell comes with 8-solar cells, propeller, electric motor, light bulb, buzzer, wire and hardware. The instruction manual teaches the concepts of solar electricity and shows experiments. You will learn how to connect solar cells to get variations in current and voltage, basic circuit concepts, and theory of solar cell construction.

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