Author Topic: PRUSA 3D Printer  (Read 106 times)

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Offline Caleb

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Re: PRUSA 3D Printer
« on: March 19, 2021, 12:57:12 pm »
I'm using SolidWorks.  It is two pieces.  I wanted to make it in one piece, but that would be well over a day of printing and a boat load of support material.  I'm not quite ready to go there yet.  I started with a revolved section in the middle, then added an arm with an airfoil like cross section.  I placed the wing where I wanted it and then lofted between the arm profile and the wing profile.  Then I did a circular array to make it into three wings.  I should have turned the edge visibility off.

The solidity is quite high at 0.8, but I figured the airfoils needed some chord to act like wings and the higher solidity might be better for a smaller turbine.  My thought was to make a kit, or have some downloadable files.  Then make a booklet talking about how VAWTs work etc.  Maybe the VAWT could charge a supercapacitor and light an LED or something like that.  The base would have slots for the coil, a small box for electronics, and an adapter so it could be mounted on some electrical conduit.
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