Building A Wind Generator

[vredeman]

Well I have researched this idea about using a car alternator to build a wind generator. Are their any Electricians out their that could put in a word or 2? As I understand it you can only get DC out of these to a battery pack.

What I'm trying to accomplish is using this to pump water out of my pond when its windy. I have 2 1hp electric pumps that I use on my drip irrigation system. They need very little psi & power to run at 5-7psi in the lines.

I have a few links on you tube about this. Here is the main search link
http://www.youtube.com/results?se...ner ... type=&aq=f

Here is a main link on Drip or Trickle Irrigation Systems.

http://www.youtube.com/results?se...ch_ ... q=drip+irr

I do have a 1,000 gal sprayer tank on wheels but it only has 8 lines I can run drip out of. I did use it but I still needed electric pumps on a gas generator for additional lines/rows.

Also I was thinking of using electric car fuel pumps that are 12v already. All I really need is a wind battery charger. That way I can put the 10hp gas generator on standby on windy days. I'm thinking of contacting someone on Youtube to just build me one.

I have 4 deep cell battery's from my boat & camper. Which I don't think I need all 4 if I use car fuel pumps I would only need 1 12 volt battery per pump right? On the non windy days I will use my gas generator with 120v electric pumps and a battery charger for wind battery's. I want to keep it simple as possible.

What I need to figure out is. Will 1-4 12 volt car fuel pumps be good enough to get the pressure I need? Which I know fuel injection is around 18psi or should I just get a ac inverter & run my 120v 1 horse pumps that I used on my generator? I need 5-7psi for the drip but on about 1 mile of drip lines. I do have overhead sprinklers that I ran also. Not sure how I would incorporate those into the equation.

Seeing that this is new technology I think someone would have to have a wind generator, drip irrigation & 12 volt water pumps to answer some of those questions.