Retail Price: $66.89
Our Price: $56.86
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.
It's mind-blowing for alternative energy science fair projects, science reports, or just plain fun!
Intermediate Level Deluxe Solar Educational Kit
Cen-Tech Multimeter
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Keep Cool with Solar Wind Turbine Experiments!
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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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The Intermediate Deluxe Solar Educational Kit gives you the ability to develop a far-out science fair project by combining it with the PicoTurbine Windmill or PicoTurbine Windmill & DC Experiments to develop hybrid power. At the same time your child will acquire the basic knowledge of solar energy.
1. When solar cell module is placed in direct sunlight, it generates power comparable to batteries. Experiment on how to harness solar energy and apply your learnings to other practical applications in your daily life.
2. Students can do series of do-it-yourself experiments to acquire the basic knowledge of solar energy.
Science Fair Project Ideas
Make a solar circuit.
Make an electrical circuit.
Learn how to increase voltage.
Learn how to increase current.
How to use solar power to produce energy for a cassette player, radio, calculator, battery charger and more..
Manual
Ages 8 and up
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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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Factoid: Wind and Solar power are very complementary renewable electricity sources, and are often used in
combination for power in remote areas. For example, the sun is less intense in the winter, but wind is usually
stronger in the winter (cold air is denser, leaves that block wind are not on trees in winter, etc.). The sun
doesn’t shine during rainstorms, but the wind is usually higher during storms.
Warning for all kits on this page.
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Note: Only the multimeter comes
assembled. You receive parts to
build the other items pictured.
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Fun PicoTurbine Windmill Solar & AC to DC Science Fair Kit
(Includes PicoTurbine Windmill, Intermediate Deluxe Educational Solar Kit, 1-Multimeter + Free SciFair eBook, a $19.95 bonus gift)
Retail Price: $66.89 Our Price: $56.86
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