The VIRYA-5 windmill has a 2-bladed rotor with wooden or stainless steel blades which are connected to each other by means of a twisted steel strip. The head of the VIRYA-5 is derived from the head of the VIRYA-4.6B2. The tower is identical to the 12 m tower of the VIRYA-4 .6B2. As an alternative, a shorter tower can be used which is built up from two tubular sections. The lower section will be made of 6 m, 5” gas pipe. The  upper section will be made of 3 m, 3” gas pipe. The overlap in between both sections will be about 0.4 m, so the total tower height will be about 8.6 m. This tower is described in report KD 582 (ref. 1) for the VIRYA-4.6B2. The VIRYA-5 makes use of a 34-pole PM-generator. This idea of using a 34-pole generator was already described in report KD 560 (ref. 2) for the VIRYA-3.3S generator. The VIRYA-5 is primary designed to be directly  coupled to the asynchronous motor of a centrifugal pump. The generator is made from the housing of a 6-pole, 5.5 kW asynchronous motor frame size 132 with stator lamination of manufacture Kienle & Spiess. The  34-pole generator is described in detail in chapter 7.