Build wind-powered generators to energize your electric vehicles and charge your rechargeable batteries! The wind spins the turbine, which turns an electric generator, which in turn charges your rechargeable AA batteries (not included). You can then use those wind-charged batteries to power the model vehicles you build. The six models include a glider, sail car, jet car, tractor, racecar, and tricycle.
This kit includes two styles of wind turbine blades and a gearbox with three different gear ratios for experimenting. You can adjust the angle and number of wind turbine blades to make best use of wind, to make the LED light up brightly, and to charge the rechargeable battery as fast as possible. Explore this amazing, free source of renewable energy and store the electricity you generate for use in practical applications!
This kit includes a 40-page color instruction book with illustrated step-by-step instructions for assembling two windmills and six model vehicles, and conducting various experiments. The 133 building pieces included in this set are compatible with those in all Thames & Kosmos Construction Series kits, Physics Series kits, Wind Power, and Hydropower kits.
Features:
- Recommended Ages: 8 years & Up
Product Features
- Electricity generating turbines
- Build wind powered generators to energize your electric vehicles and charge your rechargeable batteries
- Kit includes two styles of wind turbine blades and a gearbox with three different gear ratios for experimenting.
- Explore this amazing free source of renewable energy
- Kit comes with everything you need
Windturbine great educational tool The Windturbine kit was worth the money and well designed. My 8 year old enjoyed putting it together with me, and learned about reading installation instructions using the drawings. That said there was some confusion, on my part, when purchased in that they indicated the kit would also make cars. The same parts are used so you get the Windturbine OR cars. Also there should be no expectation that you could actually charge a battery (to run a electric car) from the turbine (powered by a fan). It’s all the turbine can do to light a LED, however it does prove it works. The kit is a good tool to teach gear ratio’s and mechanical assembly, as well as how the wind can produce electricity. I’d strongly recommend it.
Interesting kit, very fast delivery Very interesting science kit, though a little hard to put together by an 8-year old. I thought that one of the 6 possible vehicles can be built together with one of the windmills, but it turned out that it’s either a vehicle or a windmill. So to charge the battery using windmill one needs to dismount the vehicle and put the windmill together.Extremely fast delivery though, despite Super Saver’s Shipping.
Excellent wind turbine kit! Very nice kit to introduce the concepts of wind energy to young and old alike. I am an engineer who installs wind energy facilities for a living. This kit has been great to teach my son (4 years old) about wind turbine design, construction and operation. It is also very good for teaching young children skills for assembling kits. We have built it and used it outside and it works very well. The only thing I wish is that it would come with a more sturdy base.