Putting up your TESUP Atlas should feel like building good flat-pack furniture: clear pictures, one step at a time, nothing left to guess. So we made a new installation guide that works exactly like that.
The new guide has 44 illustrated steps and a narrated video that walks you from the box to the first turn of the blades. Every step shows one action, the parts you need for it and the fitting bag they come in. The video is available in 23 languages, with subtitles, and the same steps play right on the Atlas product page.
The full guide, about five minutes. Below, the same steps as manual pages, chapter by chapter.
1. Unboxing
The body arrives in a strong plywood box with rope handles. Inside you will find the output cables, the hand crank, a TESUP A4 notebook and the anchor bolts. The high and moderate wind blade sets share one carton, together with the shaft, both flanges (their collars already fitted) and fitting bag B. If you ordered the low wind blade set, it comes in its own carton with its own shaft, two flanges, connection bars and fitting bag C.
2. Mounting
Choose a place whose surface can carry the load; the right foundation depends on your ground, and a structural engineer can advise. Set the turbine body in its final position and fix the base with the four anchor bolts from bag A. Do not fit any blades until the base is completely stable.
3. Fitting your blade set
The Atlas takes three blade sets, and the guide has a chapter for each. Every flange is marked, so the blades can only go into the right housings: H for the six high wind blades, M for the two moderate wind blades and L for the three low wind blade pairs. The rhythm is the same every time:
- Slide the shaft onto the rotor shaft, keyway to key, double holes down.
- Fit the bottom flange and tighten the two screws of its collar.
- Insert the blades into their marked housings.
- Slide the top flange down so all the snaps pass through, then tighten its collar.
- Bend the snaps with a rubber mallet or by hand, each one the opposite way to its neighbour, so the blades sit stiff.
- Tighten both grub screws onto the rotor shaft with the hex key from bag B. These are what hold the blades to the generator.
▶︎ Watch: moderate wind blades
The low wind set starts turning at just 2 m/s. Its blades come in upper and lower halves, so there is one extra job: join each pair from the outer surface with an aluminium connection bar from bag C, then insert the three pairs into the L housings.
4. Finishing
Plug the main output into your inverter or batteries with the MC4 connectors; the electrical work should be done by a qualified electrician. Set the maximum voltage in the My TESUP app or with the rotary encoder, to suit your batteries or up to the 400 V limit when you power the house through an inverter. Scan the QR code to pair the app, then go round every fastener once more.
5. Connecting to your home
Run the MC4 output cable underground in a conduit, out of reach of children and protected from the weather. A small grid-tie inverter turns the Atlas output into mains electricity and plugs into an ordinary wall socket. The rules for plug-in generation differ from country to country, so check yours first.
6. Power by hand
The last chapter is for the day the grid goes down. Lift the upper body off, fit the hand crank that comes in the box onto the rotor shaft and turn it steadily, either way. The screen shows the voltage you generate. It is enough to keep a phone, a radio or a light going.
Before you start
- Keep The Book by TESUP to hand: always follow it.
- You need a spanner and a rubber mallet; the mallet is not in the box. The hex key is in bag B.
- Plan the cable route and the inverter position before the turbine goes up.
- Check every fastener at the end. Loose fastening can damage the turbine and cause injury.
The step list, the blade-set filter and the video, with each step one tap away.
Open the TESUP Atlas