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........wired incorrectly.......no two ways about it.........................

500 watt you get only at fullspeed ... hurricane ! but WHAT BULB ? 50 WATT BULB ? 100 WATT BULB ? you must charge a battery !!! if this is a 100 WATT BULB the turbine RUNS GREAT ! but you need battery ;) because if the bulb 100 watt you see you get 100 watt .. with 100 watt you must charge a battery and then put the bulb on the battery ;)

You need to hook the wind generator to a MPPT Charge controller then to a good battery then a pure sine wave power inverter to harness it's energy.

Two years down the line from your video, and Aldi have cordless saws on offer this week, this time, they're 40V ( using their 20/40 volt batteries which are now standard, with a brushless motor. They work very well, and brilliant for £40, my only complaint being, that like yours, they're left handed, so much more natural and easier having the saw blade on the right hand side. Great for left handed folks though! ( as a welshman "in exile" in Northern England, lovely to hear a nice friendly accent, diolch yn fawr!)

Try that on a windy day, make it a really exciting day!

They lied to you about the wattage which is the norm with chinese products like this, 3 blades is best, you need a bigger one

Greenhouse looks awesome 😎 it will be a dream to grow in, Ali 🌞🌤️🇨🇦

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fair play, always love to see people figuring out how to do things on their own. Man after my own heart..

Looking good all you need are your planting beds & plants!

well done butt well done both

Yay

I enjoyed your update. I good see a lovely fountain in the background of one of your shots is there a story behind that?

Extra work on the poly tunnel will be a huge benefit come windy times. Great job 💪 and have an awesome weekend guys, Ali 🥶🌞🇨🇦

Looking fab and windows will look great 👍. Have a super week, Ali 🥶🌦️🇨🇦

It’s coming along so nicely,

Making great progress you are. We’re still to cold here.

Shooting from the hip 😅😅. Will be a fabulous greenhouse and a great addition. Glad the weather held up for you, have a super week, Ali 🌦️🇨🇦

Watching this video there are a few things I'd like to point out. That black box you call a rectifier is not only a rectifier but is also your charge controller. Most likely an MPPT controller and may even have a built-in brake switch, hard to tell from the video though. There is no need for the second PWM controller you hooked up and that may be causing problems in delivering full power to your batteries. Doesn't show how you wired up the light to your batteries, but from watching your newest video and seeing it go on and off, I'm guessing you connected it to the PWM controller load output. If you're wanting to use the PWM to control your light, you should run power to it from the batteries but not have the turbine hooked up to the solar inputs. Also, there is no need to fuse both the positive AND negative leads, just the positive, and you used a much to small a fuse for your turbine. You should have a fuse on all three wires between the turbine and the charge controller rated for 40 amps each. As for not seeing the 500 watts that it's rated for, the seller rated it for 500 watts in a 30+ mph wind, most are rated for a 36mph wind. So unless you're seeing that speed of wind all the time, you're never going to get 500w, or anywhere near that. As the wind speed decrease from the max rating by half, your power output decreases by 8. At 9mph you're only going to be generating about 8 watts at the rectifier/controller. If you're wanting more power in low winds you would need to buy a more powerful turbine.

Good idea, thanks

Nice - I bet those foundations will pay you back twice, once with extending the lifetime and also helping retain warmth 😀

Looks like your doing a fan job and you’ve got this 👍👍. How much fun are you going to have in the poly this summer. Happy sowing and growing guys, stay warm and dry, Ali 🥶🇨🇦

well done butt

Loved this! All the best for the next growing season

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We’re in Pembrokeshire. I ordered 10 small pieces via eBay, they should be here by the weekend. Thanks for your video, we’ll be copying you.

One of the best ideas I have seen in ages 😊

I have the 500-wat 5 blade and it did nothing. I geared my 1.4 to 1 and it does make some power above 3.6m/s(8 mph) With longer and wider 3 blades. I think it would do ok in good wind now.

Oh yikes I haven’t sown any peppers yet but yours look amazing. Happy gardening, Ali 🌦️🇨🇦

I love it when you don’t spend money, great.xx🐝🐝

Brilliant, well done you!! We try to use what we have lying around to pot in.

😮 what a fun idea I know I have had tomatoes in the compost a few years and when I spread it on th lawn to fill a dip we had a tomato forest 😂😂. Keep us informed, Ali ☔️🇨🇦

What a fabulous upgrade to your growing space the new tunnel will be. Good luck with the build

Hi Both Long time no see. Looks like you have yourself a proper poly tunnel there. Hope the build goes smooth for you and looking forward to seeing the end product. 👍👍👍👍👍

hello Nige long time not see looks like you been very busy with stuff looking forward see how you get on. Ivan

Found this video through your new seeds video, so sorry to hear this happened but great to see you're bouncing back! Look forward to seeing the new garden!

Sounds like you’re planning a fabulous garden.

Buy a 200ah lithium battery mppt charge controller and a 2.5kw inverter. Then you will have 240v power.

I'm so sorry. Stay positive/focused on your goals! ❤️🙏

Connect it to a battery bank use it as a charger

beats watching sky news

maybe wired up wrong or the controller keeps applying the dump

Hi Guys, lets try and see through the FOG. The Design intention of this people is to design a cheap product , to make it possible the packaging must be small and light. So the product cannot be efficient. It is about the looks and the weight and the volume.

HI Both Sorry to hear about the allotment but if you get a new plot it might work out better. We have 3 allotment plots in our village but the council gave the tenants on one sight 5 years notice so they can extend the cemetery. Take care both and good luck. 👍👍👍👍👍

Sorry to hear, but I'm glad you're still going to be growing

Sorry to hear you’re losing the allotment. Good news about your new tunnel. I hope you get to feeling better. Take care!

Just bought the Ferrex electric jigsaw and I was surprised it didn't come with a blade !

I've had a revelation of how to fix both of our turbines, maybe. In stead of the three windings being in parallel, and producing low voltage, how about instead put those three windings in series? So the whole thing wouldn't need rewound. Just the wye connection taken loose and rewired with the windings in series. That would give us both higher voltage output. The difference is there would only be two wires coming out of the generator, the two ends of all the windings. What it would do is triple the voltage, and not much amps. It is my theory that more usable power would be available from just this simple rewiring. Because the voltage will be high enough to regulate instead of too low to light the lamp. That should give you 30+ volts. It was just an idea I had to try, but it might work pretty well. Thought I would share in case you want to try it.

Have you tried hooking it up with a rectifier instead of a charge controller? I did it with mine. The controller they sent was unusable. It was a 24 volts controller, and the turbine rarely reaches that much, and only for a few seconds long. I ordered a rectifier, and hooked it up to charge part of the battery bank, and it works, but after a few hours, I have to switch to the other side of the battery bank. It's a temporary fix. I'll have it apart this summer. The main reason for this comment was, I think I figured out how they rate these turbines. They figured out it will make "so many watts" , but that's with a copper winding. So then when they wind it with aluminum wire, they never reach the rating.

Wind turbine to rectifier. Rectifier to battery. Battery to light bulb. Success.