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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.
Do super renewable, solar energy science fair projects, science reports, or just plain fun!
DC Experiments Kit
Includes 12 page manual guide.
Intermediate Level Deluxe Solar Educational Kit
Warning for all kits on this page.
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| Science Fair Project Ideas
~ Compare the power of wind to solar energy.
~ Compare the power of wind energy to a hybrid (wind and solar).
Measure all voltage current with the multimeter
Exampe hypothesis: A wind turbine windmill produces more energy output than just a hybrid driven windmill.
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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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With the The Intermediate Deluxe Solar Educational Kit you can now develop a very unique science fair project by combining it with the PicoTurbine Windmill or PicoTurbine Windmill & DC Experiments. At the same time your child will acquire the basic knowledge of solar energy. Includes manual guide.
1. When you place the solar cell module under direct sunlight, it generates power comparable to batteries. Discover how to harness solar energy and apply to countless practical applications.
2. Students can do series of do-it-yourself experiments to acquire the basic knowledge of solar energy.
Project Ideas
Make an electrical circuit.
Make a solar circuit.
Learn how to increase voltage.
Learn how to increase current.
How to use solar power to produce energy for a radio, calculator, battery charger, cassette player and more..
Manual
Ages 8 and up
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Interesting background information: Producing electricity from solar energy was a great discovery in 1797 by a Swiss scientist, Horace de Saussure when he built the first thermal solar collector which was later used to heat water and cook food.
Producing electricity from solar energy was the second great discovery in 1839 by a French physicist named Edmund Becquerel. He realized that the sun's energy could produce a "photovoltaic effect" (photo = light, voltaic = electrical potential).
But it wasn'tuntil Albert Einstein proposed an explanation for the "photoelectric effect" in the early 1900s, for which he won a Nobel Prize, that people began to understand the related photovoltaic effect.
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Note: You receive parts to build the
items pictured.
The Windmill and DC Experiments kit are packaged together.
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 need a multimeter to test current with this package. If your students do not have one go to Discount Package for Classroom Experiments on Wind/Solar Energy kit because it is the same package as below but with a multimeter included.
All kits receive free a Science Fair eBook, $19.95 bonus gift)
1-PicoTurbine Windmill & DC Experiments Kit, 1-Intermediate Deluxe Solar Education kit + Free SciFair eBook
Retail Price: $78.85 Our Price: $59.95
10-PicoTurbine Windmill & DC Experiments Kit, 10-Intermediate Deluxe Solar Education kit + Free SciFair eBook
Retail Price: $788.50 Our Price: $688.50
30-PicoTurbine Windmill & DC Experiments Kit, 30-Intermediate Deluxe Solar Education kit + Free SciFair eBook
Retail Price: $2,368.50 Our Price: $2168.50
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