> I made a couple of suggestions, such as an experimenter's wind
> turbine (with the motor as the generator, seems a bit of a waste
> of a good motor though),

I'm not sure why you see that as a waste.
Main issue with steppers there is that they ar highly salient aka
coggy by design and that makes them hard to start in low wind speeds
with small rotors.


 Russell
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