Vintage Windmill and Wind Generator Forum

Maybe most have already been hunted down in Alberta. I have seen a few large private wind electric collections in Calgary area.
The museum in Nipawin is called the Living Forest Museum. A 32v Wincharger was donated last year so I don’t think the display is set up yet.

I’ll see what other pics I can come up with. You seem to have a lot of historic wind machines in your area, unmolested and untouched by other collectors. You keep beating the bushes or snow drifts and no telling what you’re going to find. Great thing about the early wind electrics is there’s still a ...

Given the distance apart you found them, they must have been mfg that way for Canadian market. I’d be nice to find sales literature for them to confirm it. I don’t have a pic of just the cup handy so I attached a couple of a later model PD you can zoom in on. Maybe you can find a dog dish about that ...

I’d say yes except for the blue tower part. That’s off a later model.

Nice collection! I haven't seen that PD tail and angle iron variant before, 2nd pic. The frame looks like early PD but tails look like model 36 Wincharger. Parmak also had a tail that shape. Maybe someone's creation? If so they went to a lot of trouble to bend the angle iron. Sometimes wind chargers ...

Oh that one...that’s an early Parris Dunn, possibly pre Parris and just a Dunn. It’s casting is first mount I posted above. The tail is incorrectly mounted on mine. The upper angle iron should run along the top of the vane, lower one diagonal. Tower was shorter on those models. Most of the tails tha ...

You mean the Air Electric Streamliner? Air Electric had some pretty unique designs for the time. More info on that one here. https://www.vintagewindmillforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=42&t=825 The Air Electric Powerline model was pretty interesting too, an equally rare machine. The chief engineer was a ...

The early PD castings used 2 lengths of 3/4" angle iron to support the vane. The first one I show is the vertical mount, second is horizontal like yours. That 2nd version was a bad design...cantilevered with no bending support. The 3rd cast iron version supported a single 1"angle angle iron and it ...

Simple answer...to slow but don’t let that discourage you from playing with the concept. Whether it’s a linear or rotating generator, it comes down to frequency. Induced voltage is proportional to the time rate of change of the magnetic field and power is proportional to the speed squared. Windmill w ...

Good looking model 38 tail vane....Did I do that one? Here's a couple more Canada brands...Hardware stores?