thinking of a design for a simple cup anemometer

 

deen looking at websites and thinking, there is too much work involved
in the plans mentioned about cup anemometers.

why not take just a bicycle wheel, mount it to a post horizontally, add
dixie cups, and hook up a bicycle speedometer? noneed to build your own
set of bearings, or calibrating a perm magnet motor, or building cup
arms that may end up beign misaligned.

maybe when i got a bit of free time i'll go and whip one up and take
pics for all of ya. seems like most plans are overly complicated.

 

Tater wrote:

Really? When you can buy one, admittedly toy sized, for $15?
http://shopping.discovery.com/product-59331.html

Anthony

 


Anthony Matonak wrote:

well........

not something I'd like to stick on a tower for a week, as it would be
really hard to read the LCD. the bike whell i could put on a 20ft pole
and run the speedometer wires to ground level.

 

Per Tater:

Also seems elegant in that it uses off-the-shelf parts.
--
PeteCresswell

 

Tater wrote:

In retrospect, I think building a small wind turbine would probably
be more practical for someone looking to figure out how much energy
they can produce. One of those pictoturbines could do the job and
you could just measure the power output or count the AC pulses.

http://www.picoturbine.com/

Anthony