Wind generator charger schematics (or load of baloney ?)
Good day folks. A former colleague of mine recommended me to a relative of his and I got to speak to this man today in person. He's a bit of a mad scientist/tinkerer sort-of guy - just my kind of weirdo 
Apparently this chap builds all sorts of generators and wind turbines in his little shop at home and sells them here and there. He even showed me some footage of some of his inventions in action out in the field. However, as he himself very kindly put it, he's not good with electronics - he just designs and builds the generators (from scratch, I might add) and turns to others for the electronic side. He doesn't have a regular guy for this task, which can be a red flag that people don't like working with him, despite him being very kind. There's only one way to find out and that is to give this guy a shot and humor him....for a while at least.
Have a look at these two schematics he asked me to build for a small-scale turbine. Right away, although I have close to zilch experience with gennies of any kind, these look like nothing I would stick on the output of a generator. Apparently, someone else drew them for him, who in turn got them from....somewhere. Maybe I'm a noob and they're actually some really standard setups that just don't click with me, or maybe they're just complete baloney that would never work for this, or just go pop within seconds....
There are WAY too many questions that need answering here, starting with the generator itself: he claims he can build any generator, in any shape and size, with any number of coils...which he showed me on his phone - told you the guy's nuts In the larger schematic, the outputs from the coils (2 coils in this case) are those 4 dots in the upper-left (that's the Romanian word for "coils" BTW ). Trouble is I'm not sure how the pairs are supposed to be arranged: is one coil the upper two dots and the other coil the bottom two, or are they the left/right ones instead ??? What sort of output are we expecting from them ??? Number of turns ??? Wire gauge ??? Poles, magnets ??? Not a single capacitor in this schematic. Neon lamp across the E-C junction of the 3055, why ??? It's been a while since I had to reverse-engineer something, so although this seems simple on paper, there are many things I don't get - not to be rude, but it's almost like someone threw random components together. The bar is set too high for this thing I can't see how it's expected to rectify the AC those coils SUPPOSEDLY spit out, regulate it and then stuff it into the batteries. The only thing that I CAN kinda see is D2 blocking B1 from attempting to turn the generator. The whole thing looks like it's trying to be some sort of regulator....which it isn't because there's no reference voltage set anywhere (zener anyone ???) and no series-pass element...unless one coil acts to limit the speed of the rotor and that's your regulation.... That 5K.....pot (?) is another thing that seems unfinished. No, it's not an error - the chap says that's how the other guy drew the schematic. Might as well be a fixed 5k there then.
How I would do it, even with 0 knowledge, is stick a rectifier on the output (3 phase if necessary) smooth it out and feed it into a DC-DC converter - MUCH more efficient and LIKELY to work, at least at small scale....
Is there even any point in building this ???
Apparently this chap builds all sorts of generators and wind turbines in his little shop at home and sells them here and there. He even showed me some footage of some of his inventions in action out in the field. However, as he himself very kindly put it, he's not good with electronics - he just designs and builds the generators (from scratch, I might add) and turns to others for the electronic side. He doesn't have a regular guy for this task, which can be a red flag that people don't like working with him, despite him being very kind. There's only one way to find out and that is to give this guy a shot and humor him....for a while at least.Have a look at these two schematics he asked me to build for a small-scale turbine. Right away, although I have close to zilch experience with gennies of any kind, these look like nothing I would stick on the output of a generator. Apparently, someone else drew them for him, who in turn got them from....somewhere. Maybe I'm a noob and they're actually some really standard setups that just don't click with me, or maybe they're just complete baloney that would never work for this, or just go pop within seconds....
There are WAY too many questions that need answering here, starting with the generator itself: he claims he can build any generator, in any shape and size, with any number of coils...which he showed me on his phone - told you the guy's nuts
In the larger schematic, the outputs from the coils (2 coils in this case) are those 4 dots in the upper-left (that's the Romanian word for "coils" BTW ). Trouble is I'm not sure how the pairs are supposed to be arranged: is one coil the upper two dots and the other coil the bottom two, or are they the left/right ones instead ??? What sort of output are we expecting from them ??? Number of turns ??? Wire gauge ??? Poles, magnets ??? Not a single capacitor in this schematic. Neon lamp across the E-C junction of the 3055, why ??? It's been a while since I had to reverse-engineer something, so although this seems simple on paper, there are many things I don't get - not to be rude, but it's almost like someone threw random components together. The bar is set too high for this thing I can't see how it's expected to rectify the AC those coils SUPPOSEDLY spit out, regulate it and then stuff it into the batteries. The only thing that I CAN kinda see is D2 blocking B1 from attempting to turn the generator. The whole thing looks like it's trying to be some sort of regulator....which it isn't because there's no reference voltage set anywhere (zener anyone ???) and no series-pass element...unless one coil acts to limit the speed of the rotor and that's your regulation.... That 5K.....pot (?) is another thing that seems unfinished. No, it's not an error - the chap says that's how the other guy drew the schematic. Might as well be a fixed 5k there then.How I would do it, even with 0 knowledge, is stick a rectifier on the output (3 phase if necessary) smooth it out and feed it into a DC-DC converter - MUCH more efficient and LIKELY to work, at least at small scale....
Is there even any point in building this ???
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