Until recently, reliable turbines for small scale wind power generation have not been available. Existing household wind power generation has largely been limited to wind turbines built, installed, and maintained by enthusiasts. Powerhouse Wind's engineers started with a different approach. We set out to use our experience in designing high-volume, mass-market consumer products and applied it to designing and manufacturing a wind turbine purpose built for use in a domestic environment. The result? The Thinair 102 turbine; reliable, simple and elegant.

The first thing people ask when they see a Thinair turbine is "why does it have only one blade?" The answer to that question is the key to understanding the unique benefits that Thinair's innovative and patented single blade teetering hub design offers.

Traditionally, wind turbines are constructed with multiple blades, attached to a fixed hub. The Thinair turbine, by contrast, has a freely teetering hub design that allows the blade's angle to change in response to variations in wind speed. As a result the Thinair makes efficient use of strong and gusty wind; it harnesses gusty wind to generate extra energy. The teetering hub also protects the turbine from damaging stress, allowing the blade to swing into a safe horizontal park position in extreme wind conditions. This approach is also less noisy than the traditional angling of the rotor to the wind method used by most upwind machines.
The addition of two equispaced counterweights balances the rotor and allows the machine to operate dynamically like a three bladed wind turbine while maintaining the advantages of a single blade. View our new promotional video of the Thinair 102.

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Product Brochure - Thinair 102