- Vertical Axis Wind Turbine with sails that can receive wind forces from any direction. Including up and down winds.
- Magnetically Levitated – reducing friction, noise, vibration and energy loss.
- Axial Flux Alternator – Allows it to generate large amounts of electricity at low rotational speeds.
- Roof Mounted – Does not require a tower, allows the wind turbine to take advantage of air-compression velocity increases from roof effect.
- Programmable Variable Coil Resistance – allows the increase of magnetic resistance as the wind speed increases. This reduces the cut-in wind speed required for electricity generation.
Overcoming Challenges of the Conventional VAWT concept:
- The ‘conventional’ VAWT has bearings to change
- Mag-Wind™ MVAWT uses magnet levitation, which does not need regular maintenance.
- Mag-Wind™ starts at low wind speeds
- Variable resistance coils - controls Drag.
- MVAWT accepts wind from multiple directions
- Sail design accepts all winds even from above.
- The ‘conventional’ VAWT suffers torque ripple effect.
- Mag-Wind™ MVAWT has no drive train to torque.
- The ‘conventional’ VAWT suffers wear and tear from vibration
- Mag-Wind™ MVAWT is magnetically levitated, so there is no vibration.
There are five main aspects that affect the output of our wind turbine:
- Wind Speed – Site wind characteristics.
- Roof Effect - The shape of the roof can increase or decrease the performance
- Coil Output – Number of coils
- Sail Size – surface area and configuration of the sails
- Inverter – the maximum amount of electricity is limited by the size of the inverter.