360 degree Wind Turbine

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This is my 360 degree wind turbine (which is still a work-in-progress) taken from the original design by me2space, you can find his design here https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1767153. Credit goes to me2space for the turbine blades, hub and base, everthing else i have re-designed. the original design stands at a height of about 14 inches,however, this one stands at a height of around 26inches (2ft+), and has a fully functional 360 degree blade/motor turret. i liked the original desgin so much i decided to go one little step further, i increased the general size of the WT to 170%, but to still try and keep it simple, and easy as possible to print. most of the larger parts of the model was printed in 0.3 for speed, the smaller parts were printed in 0.15 for quality and fitting. ( i do intend to print all parts in 0.15 for the final build ) 360 DEGREE TURRETT ------------------------------ as for the 360 degree turrett, i tried to keep it as simple as possible, and use what i had laying around the house for the electrical connction, so i managed to find an old router and power cable, so i de-soldered the DC power socket form the board of the router, and voila, i have a simple 360 degree capable connection :) if anyone has a new way of doing this Please let me know, ...... See a Need, Fill a Need......(Robots 2005) i have inclued a few pics to show kind of how its put together. as for the top of the tower, the Cable Pin is pushed inside the Pivot bottom first, then those two are pushed into the top of the tower, be careful its is a really tight fit ( i had to bash it in with something lol ) make sure when u fix the 360 turrett bottom, to the top of the tower, you have the tower seperated. TURBINE TOWER ----------------------- the tower comes in 3 sections. i tried to print the tower in two sections but my printer only goes 180mm high, so i had to print it horizontally & diagonally across the bed, but ended up being a horrible print, so thats why i split in into 3 and printed it vertically. the DC cable slides through the Cable pin and down through the tower. you may want to add a little glue/hot melt glue into the Pin and Cable to stop the wire twisting with the rotation of the motor mount. MOTOR MOUNT -------------------- the motor mount was increased in size, either to hold a bigger motor, or small motor with a gearing system to increase RPM of the small DC motor. i am working on a desin for some kind of modular bay/cage to hold sed items. I will continue to update the model and post. if anyone does like this model and has any ideas on how to improve it, Please feel free to comment :) Thanks for now, G.