Windpower Workshop: Building Your Own Wind Turbine

I'm not an electrician or engineer, but I consider myself fairly intelligent and didn't mind the challenge of learning something new. Unfortunately this was not the book for me. While Piggot does an admirable job of laying out the basics of how a wind turbine functions and the components involved, this is not a start-to-finish guide to building a wind turbine. For example, there is a chapter dedicated to constructing (or modifying an existing) generator/alternator and a chapter on constructing an appropriate tower, but literally no information on how to mount your generator to the tower. There's information on what you need from the electrical controls to prevent battery damage, but no information on where you could get these controls or how to build them.If you're interested in getting into wind power and have a solid engineering foundation, I'm sure this book would be helpful. For everyone else, you might want to start elsewhere.

an average book for the enthuiast out there.to me there need to be more drawings, photographs, etc.for such a practical book.... that is my honest opinion.

Not much real how to in this book. Good discussions on wind power.

Not bad.

Perhaps the best wind power manual available, by a true pioneer and expert. A great book.

Nice book

Excellent book, good information and useful information if you are planning on building a wind turbine.

good one

As expected

I bought this book to help me with a project on an OU course and was well rewarded. Although written in Engineer speak for Engineers it is full of useful information about wind energy that is not always included in the classroom course work. It is also refreshingly written in 21st Century Metric values for modern Engineers, not a foot or a yard in sight.