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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.
The greatest for alternative energy science fair projects, science reports, or just plain fun!
DC Experiments Kit
Includes 12 page manual guide.
Advanced Deluxe Solar Electricity Education Kit
10 Extra BioColor Leds
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Science Fair Project Ideas
~ Find out what affects performance... Does there need to be a tight connection between all the copper wires?
~ How many solar panels do you need to produce the most energy? Is less better than more or vice versa?
Exampe hypothesis: 6 solar panels is more effective in producing energy for a wind turbine than 2? 3? 4? 5?
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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.
Each experiment takes between 10 to 15 minutes to perform, an excellent length of time for a classroom demonstration.
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Advanced Deluxe Solar Educational Kit - teaches you how to convert sunlight into electricity.
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.
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 shows experiments. You will also learn 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 10 BioColor LEDs alternate between red and green depending on direction of current flow, making them an excellent accessory for alternating current. They can also be used to show the increase in outage of electricity.
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