are you happy with your wind turbine? - Page 3

 

thanks for your response wmbjk. I won't be getting an AirX based on the info
given here.

  tg wrote:


I have one - until the speed governor failed it never came close to 400W
either.  In high winds, a 403 should actually generate more power than an
Air-X (by SW Wind's own admission). Now, I'm tripping my breaker
occasionally (like last night), which makes the bearings scream.  Like
Wayne, if mine fails I won't be replacing it.
--
derek

 On Sat, 20 Jan 2007 14:19:55 -0400, Derek Broughton


That's what mine did at first, so I reset the breaker. The second time
it tripped I shut off the turbine using the shorting switch, which
kept the rotor braked normally. After a few months of being switched
off during substantial winds, the switch no longer had any effect, and
now the turbine goes into full blaat mode whenever winds are high.
Night before last we went to bed with full batteries and 30+mph winds.
We left a computer on downloading some torrents to capture at least
some of the excess, but most of the Whisper production was dumped. So
even though we needed nothing from the Air even if it had still been
working, we instead got to listen to it scream *all* night. Springtime
here usually means high winds many nights, so I was advised by SWMBO
that lowering the tower to scrap the Air has moved to the top of the
priority list. I've considered shooting it from below instead, but
probably won't try that for fear that if I only wound it, it might be
even noisier.  ;-)

Wayne

 



speaking of which, I've just finished servicing my Aero4gen (new bearings etc)
and like a idiot during re-assembly I put the pivot
shaft rubber seal on upside down. Now at night when the air dampens and cools
this causes the turbine to squeak when it changes
direction in the wind. aaaarrrrrrggghh! The noise is only there in the evenings
tho. I'll have to get up there on a ladder and
squeeze some grease into the seal.
Lesson learnt.

 wmbjk wrote:


Argh!  I'm not looking forward to that.  Rather than shooting it, are you
sure it's not just a defective switch?  What happens if you take the switch
out and connect the wires together?  Will it put a permanent stop to it?
--
derek