22-08-2020, 10:08 PM
Hi.
The turbine arrived on Wednesday. I'm impressed by the build quality, everything fits perfectly and the cover is well sealed from the weather. At 9kg it's not overly heavy. I've got a local engineering shop to sort out the pole and mounting. The charge controller takes the battery volts to 14.4v above that the output from the three phase motor are shorted effectively stopping the rotation. Once battery volts drop below 13.5v it restarts. That's ideal for me as the solar goes to 14.6v as a boost so the wind will stop at this point on a dull day and with current drawn over the charge rate will make the turbine kick in if its sufficiently windy. We will see how this all pans out once its up, hopefully next week.
Looks like a very good buy for the money, feedback on them looks promising.
The turbine arrived on Wednesday. I'm impressed by the build quality, everything fits perfectly and the cover is well sealed from the weather. At 9kg it's not overly heavy. I've got a local engineering shop to sort out the pole and mounting. The charge controller takes the battery volts to 14.4v above that the output from the three phase motor are shorted effectively stopping the rotation. Once battery volts drop below 13.5v it restarts. That's ideal for me as the solar goes to 14.6v as a boost so the wind will stop at this point on a dull day and with current drawn over the charge rate will make the turbine kick in if its sufficiently windy. We will see how this all pans out once its up, hopefully next week.
Looks like a very good buy for the money, feedback on them looks promising.
