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GREEN ENERGY
# 7079
Build wind-powered
generators to energize
your electric vehicles
8
8
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PIECES

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  • Page 1 GREEN ENERGY # 7079 Build wind-powered generators to energize your electric vehicles MODELS AGES PIECES...

  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

    TABLE OF CONTENTS Table of Contents ............................. 1 Safety Information ............................2 Kit Contents ............................... 3 Check It Out ..............................4~9 Tips and Tricks............................10~11 Indoor Experiments ............................12 Setting up the Windmills ..........................13 Let’s Do Some Experiments! ......................... 14 Storing the Generated Electricity .........................

  • Page 3: Safety Information

    Dear Parents and Supervising Adults, This specialized kit makes it possible to investigate how natural resources such as wind can be used in Gigo mechanism by assembling each model to produce energy, or by transforming them from one form to another.

  • Page 4: Kit Contents

    KIT CONTENTS What’s inside your experiment kit: Checklist: Find – Inspect – Check off QTY. Item No. QTY. Item No. NO. Description NO. Description B-SHORT PEG 7344-W10-C2D C-5X10 FRAME 7413-W10-I1W C-LONG PEG 7061-W10-C1R C-5X15 FRAME 7413-W10-J1W C-100mm AXLE Ⅱ C-STATIC AXLE CONNECTOR 1187-W10-E1K 7413-W10-L2D C-150mm AXLE Ⅰ...

  • Page 5: Check It Out

    CHECK IT OUT 1. Formation of Wind How is “wind” formed? What are the functions of wind? How is wind utilized? The Earth’s surface is surrounded by an atmosphere. Solar radiation is constantly landing on and passing through the atmosphere before it reaches the Earth. Because the Earth spins at an angle, different regions are subjected to different levels of solar heat.
  • Page 6 CHECK IT OUT Wind Force Scale The wind force can be measured by observing the sea or land condition under wind effects, and represented based on the wind force scale. At present, the most common scale used internationally is the Beaufort Scale, which was created in 1805 by Sir Francis Beaufort, an Irish-born British admiral.
  • Page 7 Eddies and vortices in the air near a moving body lower efficiency. The shape of the wing in Gigo’s long and windmill blades all follow the principles described here, and these are taken from a the science of fluid mechanics.
  • Page 8 CHECK IT OUT 3. Principle of Wind Power How Wind Power Works Rotor Blade Tower Nacelle Low-speed High-speed Shaft Shaft Rotor Hub Gearbox 1. Blades 2. Rotor 3. Pitch 4. Brake 5. Low-speed shaft 6. Gearbox 7. Generator 8. Controller 9.
  • Page 9 CHECK IT OUT Similar to the alternating generator. Different from the alternating generator. Commutator Fig. 11 Current generated by a direct current generator: During the coil’s rotation of one cycle, When the coil passes through the vertical Current I is constantly changing. position, the commutator changes the connecting direction of the coil and the external wiring, making the electric current...
  • Page 10 CHECK IT OUT 6. Reverse Generator with Wire Connector Fig. 13 30X MOTOR WITH WIRE CONNECTOR Generator Axle In this experiment, we use a special generator component, as shown in Figure 13. On its most right side, an axle is placed to rotate the input fans, and then the wind power generated by the fans will be transmitted via the gear A, B, C and D to the generator.

  • Page 11: Tips And Tricks

    TIPS AND TRICKS Tips and Tricks for Building the Models Fig. 16 Fig. 17 Fig. 18 OK! (with gap) Fig. 19 Fig. 20 1. Use the end “A” of PEG REMOVER to pull off the LONG PEG (Fig. 16). 2. Use the end “B” of PEG REMOVER to pull off the LONG BUTTON FIXER (Fig. 17). 3.
  • Page 12 TIPS AND TRICKS How to Adjust the Gearbox Fig. 24 Fig. 25 Hold the gearbox and the 60T GEAR you are to Hold the gearbox and the 20T GEAR you are to shift as shown in Fig. 24 and move this 60T GEAR shift as shown in Fig.

  • Page 13: Indoor Experiments

    INDOOR EXPERIMENTS Setting up a Fan and the Windmill for Indoor Experiments Please refer to these instructions to properly set up a fan in order to conduct experiments with your wind turbines indoors. 18" Industrial Fan 18" Industrial Fan The Windmill with Long Blades The Windmill with Short Blades 100cm 100cm...

  • Page 14: Setting Up The Windmills

    SETTING UP THE WINDMILLS Outdoors Fixing the windmill on a bamboo rod with 2 CABLE TIE (Fig. 34). Fastening the CABLE TIE to ensure the windmill is immovable (Fig. 35). Fig. 34 Fig. 35 Indoors Press the Gearbox with your hand (Fig. 36) while fixing the windmill base to the ground with tapes (Fig. 37). Putting two iron blocks or stones with the weight of 1.3 Kgs for each on the base to further fix the windmill (Fig.

  • Page 15: Let's Do Some Experiments

    LET’S DO SOME EXPERIMENTS! Experiment 1: Adjust the Gear Ratio of Gigo Gearbox Use a windmill with SHORT BLADE (Fig. 42) to observe the variation of power generation (the brightness of the LED bulb) under the same wind speed. Fix the angles of the blades and change the gear ratios by shifting the gears at the lower axle.

  • Page 16: Storing The Generated Electricity

    STORING THE GENERATED ELECTRICITY With the Following Experiment, a Mini Power Plant Can be Built. Fig. 45 Make sure the switch on the 1.5V DUAL BATTERY To activate the windmill, toggle the switch to OUT BOX is set to IN (charge). (discharge).

  • Page 17: Advanced Reference

    ADVANCED REFERENCE Fig. 47 5. When set to OUT, the 1.5V DUAL BATTERY BOX will discharge and activate the windmill in case there is no wind. 6. Interestingly, the fast-rotating windmill slows down when rechargeable batteries are inserted. It is a normal phenomenon because the flat batteries constitute an ultra high capacitance.
  • Page 18 ADVANCED REFERENCE ER Diagram of Blade Angle Change vs. Voltage Change for Fans with 6 SHORT BLADE. Blade angle ER Diagram of 6-blade fan angle vs. (with the ultra shaft 16” power generation voltage 14” and included angle of Industrial Stand fan the universal electric fan...
  • Page 19 ADVANCED REFERENCE Advanced Reference II An Analysis on Fan Blade Angle vs. Power Generation Capacity. Quantitative Analysis is adopted to verify the optimum blade angle through a measuring instrument. In “Experiment 3: Is There Any Change in Power Generation Capacity (Change in Brightness of LED Lights) for Wind Turbines with Short Blades? Can You Find the Best Fan Blade Angle?"...

  • Page 20: Testing Results

    TESTING RESULTS Wind Blades 3 SHORT BLADE Gear Ratio 1:1 Speed Turning Lighted Testing Results by 16" Household Fan Strong Middle Gear Ratio 1:3 Weak Wind Blades 30X MOTOR WITH 4 SHORT BLADE Gear Ratio 1:1 Speed Turning Lighted WIRE CONNECTOR Strong Middle Weak...
  • Page 21 TESTING RESULTS Wind Blades Wind Blades 6 SHORT BLADE Gear Ratio 1:3 6 SHORT BLADE Gear Ratio 3:1 Speed Turning Lighted Speed Turning Lighted Strong Strong Middle Middle Weak Weak Wind Blades 3 LONG BLADE Gear Ratio 1:3 Speed Turning Lighted Strong Middle...
  • Page 22 Model WINDMILL WITH LONG-BLADE Parts Needed x 10 x 18 ×3 ×2...

  • Page 23: Model 1 Windmill With Long-Blade

    Model WINDMILL WITH LONG-BLADE Side view...
  • Page 24 Model WINDMILL WITH LONG-BLADE Short leg Long leg Short leg Long leg...
  • Page 25 Model WINDMILL WITH LONG-BLADE TEST THE MODEL The blades should spin clockwise, and the LED(20mm) will light up. If the LED(20mm) does not power up, try inserting the LED(20mm) again, but in the Done! opposite direction. Only the gears closest to the motor mesh.
  • Page 26 Model WINDMILL WITH SHORT-BLADE Parts Needed The frame and gears for Model 2 are identical to Model 1. To build the frame and gears, see Model 1, steps 1 and steps 4 through 22. x 10 x 18 ×6...
  • Page 27 Model WINDMILL WITH SHORT-BLADE Only the gears closest to the motor mesh. If the wind power is low, try meshing the blue gears in the middle, rather than the gears closest to the motor. TEST THE MODEL The blades should spin clockwise, and the LED(20mm) will light up.
  • Page 28 Model GLIDER Parts Needed x 11 ×2 ×2...

  • Page 29: Model 3 Glider

    Model GLIDER Front view Done! Toggle the switch to OUT.
  • Page 30 Model SAIL CAR ×3 Parts Needed x 13...

  • Page 31: Model 4 Sail Car

    Model SAIL CAR Toggle the switch to OUT. Done!
  • Page 32 Model TRICYCLE Parts Needed x 16 ×2 ×2...

  • Page 33: Model 5 Tricycle

    Model TRICYCLE Done! Toggle the switch to OUT.
  • Page 34 Model JET CAR Parts Needed x 18...

  • Page 35: Model 6 Jet Car

    Model JET CAR Toggle the switch to OUT. Done!
  • Page 36 Model TRACTOR ×2 Parts Needed x 20 ×2...

  • Page 37: Model 7 Tractor

    Model TRACTOR Toggle the switch Done! to OUT.
  • Page 38 Model RACE CAR ×2 Parts Needed x 18 ×2...

  • Page 39: Model 8 Race Car

    Model RACE CAR ×2 Front view Toggle the switch to OUT. Done!
  • Page 40 © 2022 Genius Toy Taiwan Co., Ltd. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED R21#7079...

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