Old Fashioned Windmills and Electricity | Welcome to the ...
Mar 04, 2007· It is not worth the time and trouble to try to adapt a water pumping windmill to generate electricity. Too much would have to be modified and changed and then it would still be a 3rd or 4th rate generating system instead of a first rate water pumping system. The old pre_REA wind machines were 32 volt DC and were mostly 500 watts to 3kw in size.