Why you shouldn't, or possibly should, buy a small wind turbine.
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 1 ส.ค. 2024
- Its a complicated decision. There is so much more to wind turbines than meets the eye. HAWT or VAWT?, AC or DC?, 3 blade or 5 blade? Hybrid or stand alone system?
After 10 years of playing with wind and 25 years off grid Ive realised a few things and I have some simple tips.
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I. Was in your world in 1989. What a great people. So nice once they found out i was from usa lots people invited us to there homes.
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Really really good information. I've got solar and batteries, and I'd love to augment with wind, but residential wind really just isn't all that feasible yet. I'm looking forward to that changing.
Its pretty flukey here- but its something for nothing when the weather is bad. And the entire last 18 months has been like a wet Irish winter
You can add voltage booster between wind turbine and charge controller and you will get bit more power
I have 1600 watts of solar panels and a 600 watts wind turbine. They charge twenty deep cycle batteries. I had to replace the power and control boards in my 2000 watts Aims Power inverter charger from trying to run a welder. I bought a Winco Lil Dog gas ⛽ generator, 2400/3000 watts to run the welder. It's easier to buy a pint of gasoline than to replace the insides of the inverter charger. The welder was from Harbor freight, 75 amps DC. It takes a 20 amp receptacle, 120 v. My old previous generator was 2000 watts Winco, AC generator. It has slip rings, one wire comes out, the case is the ground. It didn't work as well with the welder, but the new one did. The new one is more of a single phase alternator. The AC generator feeds part of the output back into the field ( case) magnet coils. Older motor homes have these style of AC generators. I have a 5000 watts one that I cut the gas engine off of. The field electromagnets on it are 12 volts. It was made for an RV. That let you get the engine running and then flip the magnets on. It had two 120 volts legs. It won't have to turn very fast to make 30 volts. Then I have a DC motor that makes 79 volts when I wrapped a short rope around the pulley and pulled. So I bought a set of five blades and hub, says its good to 145 MPH winds. The wind turbine that I have now makes about 150 watts in a ten mph wind. There was some 87 MPH winds here last spring, it was making over a thousand watts for awhile. It survived. I had replaced the bolts they sent me with grade 8 bolts. I ran them past the hub enough to put nuts on the back. The wind turbine cost me $420 something. It has worked fairly well. I used a sixteen feet pole, one inch and a half inside diameter, and Made a base three foot section of bigger pipe, if I want to raise it three feet. However there was a storm last week, and lightning hit a pole that was just a few feet higher than my wind turbine is, sixteen feet at present. I have a have a three foot piece of angle iron lag bolted to the barn rafters. I made a U shaped piece and welded it to the angle iron. I made the bracket extra big, and I wrapped the pole with a piece of carpet. There's a long bolt across the top of the U shaped bracket that holds it all together. It's fairly quiet. The small amount of noise doesn't bother me, just lets me know it's making power. I live on a hill, not quite at the top, so I can't have a tall pole. But there's plenty of wind. Im going to make a homemade wind generator some way or other. I might make a DC one on a short pole. The blades are 28 inches, about 60 total with the hub.
Thats a wild sounding turbine! Im very impressed with the output. As I read I was thinking that your barn must throb when its working hard! most impressive. Ive got a selection of treadmill and washing machine motors. So the VAWT is a thing that will happen soon- just to play with.
@@t.h.o.r. I just added a lithium iron phosphate battery , 24 v, 100 a. It has changed everything but it's working great now. It's cloudy now. The voltage ⚡ is 26.6 now. It doesn't change much. There's another one coming Wednesday. Two will easily run my inverter charger.
Very interesting, well explained, thank you.
I want to double my solar first, would be happy with nearer a kilowatt system, but a small turbine such as this seems undoubtedly worth the money as backup- once one has the bulk of their other systems/preps in place.
I feel like winter nights especially is where this would shine as that seems the most regular time of steadier wind source all year.
That's exactly how I find mine. Diddly-squat all summer but in winter when I have hardly any sun- my old DIY one took up the slack and saved my batteries. Plus its a handy weather vane that lets me know whats changing up there
I build VAWT wind turbines because I like watching them spin. Hey, I'm autistic. A fascination with repetative motion comes with the territory.
All my turbines compress air, however, the real work horses of my homestead are small 12-volt PV panels each powering either air or water pumps.
I use an "Air Battery" to store power instead of something electronic like "normal" batteries. I use solar to heat my domestic water for washing mostly. Each water application depends on a PV panel and a flat-plate solar absorber panel. When there's enough sunlight to drive the pump, there's automatically enough sunlight to heat the water. When not, the system shuts itself down.
Edit: I cook year round using an All American Sun Oven. It cooks, boils, bakes, dehydrates and runs for FREE any clear, sunny day, regardless of air temperature.
Kris Harbour channel uses Hydro ,Wind and Solar so it's very rare he hasn't got his energy needs covered .
Combination is the key .
I almost bought one about 40 years ago but then decided against it. It was best because we moved from that house. I was seriously thinking about it.
Wow, this is so clear, thanks.
I once saw a youtube video in which was said that we should use a 24v turbine with a 12v battery bank. The reasoning was that 24v turbine will sooner exceeds the 12v needed for the battery to charge. What do you think?
Euuuw! that's dodgy- But if you have a reliable dump load to protect it - then its doable- but dodgy! I guess if you are in a low wind area then its a creative way of getting the amps up. BTW the supplied controller has no dump load and won't take much abuse.
I find my wind turbine acts like a battery trickle charger during the night am fully off grid with solar 24V and 12 V separate system for led lighting for the house and workshop.,.
please show the magnet addition.
coming up in a couple of weeks after I have baseline figures for its std performance. Ill be adding magnets in two stages so we can see the improvement vs the extra drag
@@t.h.o.r. I just got one from vevor and I need to get a stand for it and do the preventative maintenance on it, but I'm extremely curious about the results of your experiment before I finalize anything.
put roof over that also is duct so the uv dont eat plastic
ha ha yes that would work. New blade set in 5 years is cheap. but for now I use UV protection house paint on the blades
Can you please do the magnet glue hack sooner than later please
Damn good idea!- Ive had 3 weeks to get a baseline of what it will do. (with some surprising results) Ill bring it down this coming weekend and do the mods- The results- well that will be another 3 weeks haha
Awsome I have the Same turbine and had some really strong winds managed to get 80 watts I'm definitely going to be doing your magnets hack ifnit works out for you cheers mate appreciate the videos
be carefull with the sellers of china turbines ,,it is vital that you buy directly from the factory ,,you can get a real 1000w turbine for 200-250 dollars 2,3 meter diameter ,,but if you dont go direct to factory outlet you are gonna pay 5x or 10 times more for one furthermore companies buy the aluminium bodies and plastic blade and order tiny wire stator and tiny magnets and sell them ,,
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I would have thought the dollar would have gained on the nz dollar when I was in europe like 20 years ago the Euro was worth way more than the dollar now its like at parity did nz do way better or something, I mean soon Imagine the dollar wont be worth much but no ones will be
Interesting stuff.
The blatant obvious is no sun and no wind you are a caveman. With both you are an astronaut.
🤔 I wouldn't have a clue how to instsll one 🤣
Well- that's why Im doing these vids😁 If you have solar that cant keep up, this is an option that will help some folk. Coming soon Ill show how I made my DIY wind turbine from a ceiling fan, a chopping board, two chair legs and a piece of sewer pipe. It ran my fridge for 10 years.
I was thinking that with the omni-directional wind turbine, couldn't u just spray sum "white", (color for best sun resistance), rubberized coating on the entire turbine to protect it from sun degradation?
I wouldn't figure that to affect it's proficiency, nor would it b very costly to do.
Always lovin ur interesting projects and info.
A continuous thumbs up.
Yes totally. there are good UV protection house paints that will do the job for 5 years at a time. I wiped mine down with Armourall before it went up. Armourall has done wonders in saving the tops of the rear seats and the tops of the door trims in almost every car Ive ever owned. VAWTs intrigue me. I will build one. Ive so many washing machine motors and treadmill motors here.
@@t.h.o.r. good info to know, thanks
Don't modify your pole too much there bud or else you might win woman of the year award 😂 yeah I know, we are so f'd as a society 😐