are you happy with your wind turbine? - Page 6

 

that's what I thought - a bigger turbine will bring in more power, irrespective
of the poorness of the location. But I can't see a
telescopic pole working. It wouldn't be strong enough to hold a bigger turbine
against stormy winds - unless you know of a
particular product that could withstand such stresses. It would have to be an
extremely well made piece of kit. The pole I use is a
2inch stainless steel pipe of 5mm wall thickness and even that sometimes wobbles
and bends a bit in strong winds.

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against stormy winds - unless you know of a

extremely well made piece of kit. The pole I use is a

wobbles and bends a bit in strong winds.

Some bending is tolerable. For example, I see lots of Air 403s on 20
ft. poles without guy wires. If some additional height on your pole
takes the form of a larger diameter pipe telescoped over the existing
one (assuming the larger diameter is sufficient for the new turbine),
then the stresses will be concentrated on the overlapped portion.
Perhaps you could reinforce that area.

Wayne

 

against stormy winds - unless you know of a

extremely well made piece of kit. The pole I use is

wobbles and bends a bit in strong winds.

yeah I see what you mean and was thinking of this myself. But I'm still worried
about such a move as - in my case -  I don't think
the uppermost pole anchor point (bracket on the wall) is strong enough to
withstand the twisting action produced by wind hitting
the turbine. To clear the gutter the brackets hold the pile about 9 inches out
from the wall, which puts a lot of stress on the
anchor bolts going into the brick. I just don't think I can push my luck on this
one. This problem of insufficient anchor strength
only applies to my own installation, not other peoples. I think there's enough
anchor strength to go up to a slightly bigger
turbine, (say double the power) but not enough to go higher.

 I'm wondering what people are using these wind turbines for. What's
downstream in the way of batteries, inverters, loads?


 ·     Designed for unattended applications
 ·     Typically used for street lighting, remote telemetry and data
loggers
 ·     Starts charging 0.5A at 6.5 Knots, Tail furls at 40 knots and
gives 20A

/Todd Marshall
Plantersville, TX

 
I'm wondering what people are using these wind turbines for. What's
downstream in the way of batteries, inverters, loads?

speaking for myself I consider a wind turbine a backup source of power in the
event of prolonged grid failure.
I'd be the first to agree a turbine could never compete with power from the
national grid, but in the event of zero power coming
outta the plugs the power from a wind turbine is better than nothing. I think of
it as preparing for a rainy day. A turbine will
only trickle charge batteries and such, but it's better than nothing. And if the
grid ever goes down, I don't want to be stuck with
nothing.