Hi everyone, BIG NEWS - we just hit our second of three fundraising milestones! 🎉
Our first goal was $50,000—the minimum needed to make this Wefunder raise viable—and we reached it fast. Then came our next target: $250,000. Ambitious, but within reach. Investors who joined us up to that point received an early-bird discount, and thanks to their belief and support, we officially met that goal last week!
Which means… we’re onto the final stretch: $3,000,000. 🚀 It’s a big goal, no doubt—but it’s not out of reach. If we’re able to raise the full $3M, we believe it could carry us all the way from now to low-volume production. That’s huge. It could mean we don’t need to raise again.
Honestly? That would be incredible. And we’re ready to work relentlessly to make that happen - if we can get to this milestone together.
To everyone who’s already invested: thank you. Your belief in us is what’s turning this technology into something real, and we’re beyond grateful to have you on this journey with us. If you’ve been on the fence about investing or if you’ve already invested and are considering more, please go here for more info: wefunder.com/HarmonyTurbines
Now for this week’s tech update. In true R&D (building a new system from the ground up), important breakthroughs and milestone moments certainly do happen—but not on a consistent weekly schedule. What does happen every week is the real work: brainstorming, trial and error, refining ideas, testing assumptions, and building smarter versions of what came before.
The past few weeks have been a perfect snapshot of that process in action—less about flashy big wins, and more about the steady, thoughtful work that actually moves the technology of our company forward, this is the true power behind innovation. Over the past few weeks we’ve laid the foundation for a big improvement to our power generation system. It’s just 3 paragraphs, so you can handle it! 🙂
First we got our new full-size scoops from the shop that does our large-size rolling jobs. With the new scoops in-house we were able to see first hand how they performed in real wind. This gave us a much better idea of the upper and lower operating range (RPM’s) of our new scoops.
Now take that new RPM range and plug the data into the 2nd thing: a gear ratio. Yes we know that we have been trying for months to achieve a 1:1 turbine-to-generator ratio but when something is too far out of range you have to accept what is fact and move forward. We have said all along, that we are NOT going to get stuck in “analysis paralysis.” So to that end we found a wonderful solution that actually “kills 2 birds with 1 stone”. By incorporating a gear ratio, we are able to both eliminate an expensive lovejoy coupling (joining turbine to generator) and at the same time build in a nice RPM increase for our generator. This new solution is very robust and should provide solid performance over many years of operation with minimal maintenance - all while eliminating the need for an expensive coupler! That’s a win-win right there folks!
Lastly, with the new higher RPM range and known torque limits from our previous testing, we were able to devise a new coil recipe for our SAF generator to dial in exactly what voltage we’re looking for. This new generator “recipe” should allow us to start producing actual wattage (for customers) right after the turbine begins spinning. Early testing shows that our unit starts spinning (with the new gearing included) right around 5mph of wind! -Excellent
Sorry for a bit of “science class” there but this is a great example of the real world R&D work that goes on here at HTHQ (Harmony Turbines Headquarters) every single week. In this case it’s helpful to ground us and our followers to this simple reality: Breakthroughs are great but they don’t happen every week; what happens in between is the TRUE heartbeat of the company!
Thank you so much for your continued support and for being part of this journey with us. We truly wouldn’t be here without you.
Sincerely,
Chris, Cheryl, and the Harmony Team