I built a wind turbine a couple of years ago but the voltage produce was only 11 volts so never did anything with it. tried with only 2 blades and got the rpm up but my furling was not good so the blades ripped off, now I'm thinking of using smoothing capacitors to increase voltage and stop any surges from gusts, my question is this.
Has anyone use capacitors in this way and got results, if so please could you post the schematic of the size of capacitors used and how they were wired. Also would like to know if I should turn the turbine in a down wind type, with out the furling tail.