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| 6 volt on post, 32 volt on tower - 1947 | 32 volt on windmill tower - 1947 | prop gone - just a weather vane now |
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| Wind machine, made by Wincharger, used during WWII. The wind machines provided the wind needed to teach the soldiers how to collapse their chute to prevent being blown across the ground. Submitted by Edward Howard, a retired paratrooper doing some research for a book on Airborne training at Fort Benning, GA. Note the Wincharger logo on the side of the fan. | 6 volt wincharger on a farm in North Dakota. submitted by Scott Waagen | |
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| This little booklet from
1941 (in Dutch) describes the Wincharger and several home built
installations and building plans for the propeller. Many people in
Holland were using a Wincharger and several other home-made generators
to make electricity for their homes during the German occupation of
Holland during World War II. submitted by: Gerlof Langerijs, Amsterdam, the Netherlands |
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| 32 volt Control Unit | 6-volt Parris-Dunn at Mewassin, Alberta, Canada. Raymond Scheideman on roof - 1946 | |
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| This is an NOS 24 volt Wincharger, still in the original box. Note the solid-state regulator. | ||
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| Replacing 6 volt with 32 volt | 32 volt up and ready to go | 32 volt powered the whole farm |
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| 6 volt unit on a 6" by 6" post | Eigil Elisenberg examining his wincharger in Lofoten, Norway | |
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| This Wincharger (probably 12 volt, 250 watt) was located on Lofoten, a ancient Viking fishing island 250 miles north of the Arctic Circle off the coast of Norway by Eigil Elisenberg, who lives near Oslo, Norway. He is currently restoring this unit (see photos in the "Process" gallery page). This might be the Wincharger shipped and installed the furthest distance from Sioux City, Iowa. It would be interesting to get the history of this unit. Eigil, can you tell us more? | ||