Here's the guys that make replacement Wincharger blades
http://www.royalwindandsolar.com/
Here's alink to a video i made on old turbines https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sff1dluIZRw
Made a mistake with the spelling, it's a Wincharger 1200 watt 32 volt model made in the 30's
Albers Propellor
Company - In
1927,
John and
Gerhard Albers started experimenting with wind driven generators eventually becoming the Albers
Propeller Co. in
Cherokee, Iowa. They developed a small wind generator called the “Wincharger” to charge 6 volt radio batteries. The Wincharger was a local hit and the company grew to three employees and production increased to 6 units per day.
Wincharger
Corporation - In
December, 1934 the Albers brothers together with
Cecil Parris, and Ernest Arndt formed the Wincharger Corporation to manufacture their wind chargers at the Old
Hawkeye Truck plant in
Sioux City, Iowa.
Later that year, executives from the
Zenith Radio Corporation visited Wincharger unannounced, placed an order for 50,
000 Winchargers, and took a 51 percent stake in the company. The small Wincharger radio unit would become the most produced wind generator over the next 60 years and the Wincharger name would immediately become an important force in the wind electric plant business.
The new larger 30,000-square-foot manufacturing plant had 52 full time employees, the product line was expanded to include larger full home units, and daily production increased to
200 units.
Zenith bought the remaining 49 percent of WIncharger, and sales of radio and full home power plants was maintained under the difficult market circumstances resulting from federal rural electrification.
Wincharger
Radio Plants -
In time, production of the radio charger soared to 2,000 units a day at a price of $44 apiece, or even better at $15 per unit with the purchase of a special Zenith radio with a single rechargeable 6 volt battery.
The unit was a two-blade, upwind, direct-drive design. A single 6-foot-long
Douglas fir, a 1 x 4 inch board was shaped to the company’s patented air foil propeller specifications and fitted with their patented air brake governor. These components were attached by a drum brake plate to the generator. At wind speeds above 20 mph, the flaps which would normally travel in a circle would extend out to counteract the propeller forces and limit the speed up to a
point. Prudent Wincharger owners would apply the brake when severe weather approached. A tail vane was fixed in place by a length of angle iron to the back of the generator to point it into the wind. A small four-post tower with a turntable, slip ring assembly, and mounting feet for easy installation on the roof of an outbuilding were included. It was not a good idea to mount the Wincharger on the roof of the house since the roof would act as a sounding board to the point of being intolerable.
Wires connected the generator to a simple relay panel in the house and to the radio battery. When the wind blew, the battery would charge and the radio would provide continuous entertainment on demand. Since the battery was usually kept charged, the owner would frequently add a few light bulbs to make good use of the abundant wind energy
. Larger direct drive models based on this design and rated
500 to 650 watts with an 8 foot diameter propellor would be offered over time.
Here's alink to the rest of the story http://www.windcharger.org/Wind_Charger/Wincharger
.html
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- published: 15 Nov 2015
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