This design allows you construct a Perfect Magnetically-Levitated VAWT from inexpensive components. Because this is a Mag-Lev it’s nearly almost smooth and frictionless and efficient.
Components required:
- Take 3 round plates of 0.5 inch thick plywood with 3 ft diameter with a hole of 2 inch diameter in the center
- Take 32 Neodynium disk magnets, N45 (Mark 16 magnets with red having North Pole and other 16 with South Pole with blue ink)
- Take 4 Neodynium Torus magnets, N45 (Mark 2 magnets with red having North Pole and other 2 with South Pole with blue ink)
- 32 small plastic coils of Copper 14 AWG enamel insulation wire
- 1 Steel pipe 4 Feet long and 2 inch diameter with mountable legs
- 16 plastic plates, 1 Foot by 3 Foot and 0.5 inch thick
- 64 small right-angle mounts
- 128 wood screws, 0.5 inches long phillips
- 1 metal lock-ring torus, 2 inch diameter hole in middle with screw in from side to fix to axle
