The turbine gave me 16 amp hours last night over a 9 hour period. Had 20-30 mph gusts. Not a big deal but it put enough power in the batteries the soc only dropped 5% instead of the usual 16%. I will put out a video when I have more consistent info to report.
@@goingoffgridatgreenshireho435 I like that! I bet it was a treat to wake up to a 95% full battery bank :) So the turbine produced ~ 3.4 total kWh last night?
I didn't do the math but that is close. Winter winds will be more consistent these winds were more gusty from a storm, I might wake to full batteries with smooth winds.
Thank you. I see your concern, but we have no trees to the west and a vast flood plain out there. Those trees are south, and the wind will come from the west and NW in winter. My batteries stay full spring-fall. This has been a year of learning, going well so far.
thank you for the video, does mounting the wind turbine on the building cause and noise inside the building? I'm wanting to do the same thing but concerned that the building may turn into a big speaker.
The noise is a low hum I do not find loud or anoying at all. It may be the massive wood post I have the thick sch 40 pipe mounted to, absorbs vibration, minimizing noise. The blades on this model are only 32 inches, longer blades will be louder.
Well our monitor crashed for our computer a few days ago but back up now. Wanted to get back to you right away. We had not had good winds yet when you asked about the noise. Well we had 30-35 mph winds a couple days ago and it was noisy in the shop. I did not find it annoying but I'm hard to annoy. However there was a whining hum when it was spinning in that 35mph wind. Using sections of water pipe insolating foam may help. But I'm ok with it as it is.
so has the wind turbine produced any power yet? at what wind speed will the system start producing power? what was the cost of the parts for this system?
It has produced some power. We had good wind off and on end of Sept (15mph). I watched the Classic display climb to 1200 watts. My batteries were full so the voltage reducer kicked in to controlled the output. The "cut in" is 6mph but it takes about 12 mph to produce a reading on the Classic. In winter I will have a real world picture of its power when the soc of my batteries is lower and the wind is blowing harder 20-30 mph. Cost of package $3,000 / pipe $60
Too high cost for wind turbine and not reliable at all, better to put more solar and batteries than wind turbine, atlest in Australia where solar panels and LIFEO4 is dirt cheap. A free washing machine motor that you can find from the side of the roads can produce more than this $3000 worth wind turbine.
I'm not Savey enough to build a turbine from an old washer. I think I have enough solar, it's the heavy cloud cover here in winter that is the problem and more solar won't do the trick. We have great wind in winter so I'm hopeful it will work for me.
This looks really nice! I just finished putting up my wind tower last month with a 2000 W wind turbine. I am just starting out with 48 V 400 ah battery bank, 10,000 W inverter(second one on the way) and 16 x 555 W longi solar panels. I'm really looking forward to your numbers. As I am in the construction phase and probably have most of the things hooked up this weekend. At my location, I have an average yearly windspeed of 9 m/s at 40 m. I'm still in the testing stage, my winter turbine is at only 9.75 m. Or 32 feet plus an extra 10 foot lake sure effect. My back up generator is just a Honda 3000 iS, so the best it can do is about 20 A at 120 V. I'm still looking for a charger for it, for the big 48 V batteries. th-cam.com/video/8Bp8fcbilzs/w-d-xo.html th-cam.com/video/esDfCh-d_ns/w-d-xo.html
Sounds like your building a nice system. I hope the turbine will charge my batteries well this winter, I will advise further. That gen will probably need to be replaced with at least a 50A to charge those batteries. I have an EG4 Chargeverter and it will raise my 600ah 48v bank 20% in 2 hours burning 2 gallons of propane.
OK, not a big deal but a bit of info for you...we have a 15-20 breeze today and the batt voltage is at 54, full is 57, but the clothes drier is running so were pullin hard from the solar. With all that going on the turbine is spinning decently and the MPPT is charging at 1.3A into the batteries. not a big deal but its doing its job. More to come.
Drier is off, batteries are full, turbine still spinning but MPPT is "resting" Auxiliary 2 on the Classic shows voltage reducer has kicked in. I think winter will bring good results.
Would it work if you positioned the turbine on top of the condeser of the AC unit with a fixture so the fan can create the required wind to move the turbine when the AC is on?
Interesting question! The wind from the condenser would probably not be adequate. However bolting a vertical axis turbine to the condenser fan shaft might work. Don't know if that would cause excessive wear on the fan barrings and it would only generate power while the condenser ran. About 90% of the power I will get from mine is in winter because my batteries stay full the rest of the year so wouldn't work in my system.
The voltage on your batteries needs to be low enough to allow charging, has the soc dropped enough? Mine has shown good voltage coming in till the voltage reducer kicks in due to the soc of the batteries being too high. Don't give up on it too soon.
@@goingoffgridatgreenshireho435 I do know all about solar and battery charging. I did extensive testing with wind turbines as have others on YT. Unless you have sustained winds of over 25mph Wind Turbines are a waste of time. The only exception is when it is very cloudy getting nothing from your solar panels and it you have sustained winds. It will help then but probably not as well as you may hope. I hope your experience is better.
Thanks, that is why I got it for the below freezing, cloudy days of winter. Especially when its snowing, that's when 30-40 mph wind blows across my hill top. I love this stuff and can talk on it for hours!
Have you guys considered flywheel generator loop set up with magnet assistance ? They have a motorcycle wheel that works that I seen,,, not in real life tho ... but looking to try working on one
Sorry!! It has one but the camera I use is cheap. This was not something I planned to do. I can't even download or even watch my videos because my computer has very limited data. Some buddies bought me the camera and told me I was going to do this. When I shoot a video, I give them the disk and they upload everything for me. LOL never even thot to do this!
That was my first plan but then I saw the 11/4 pipe next to the 2"and inspiration caught me. I think this bond is much more solid and will handle vibration and Tork better.
Thank you for the great videos :) I am eagerly awaiting power numbers from the turbine this Winter!
You and me both! I may have to play with the power curve a bit but I'm hopeful it will greatly minimize generator use! I'll be in touch.
The turbine gave me 16 amp hours last night over a 9 hour period. Had 20-30 mph gusts. Not a big deal but it put enough power in the batteries the soc only dropped 5% instead of the usual 16%. I will put out a video when I have more consistent info to report.
@@goingoffgridatgreenshireho435 I like that! I bet it was a treat to wake up to a 95% full battery bank :) So the turbine produced ~ 3.4 total kWh last night?
I didn't do the math but that is close. Winter winds will be more consistent these winds were more gusty from a storm, I might wake to full batteries with smooth winds.
Congrats on a nice start but I predict you'll be raising it soon due to those trees.
Thank you. I see your concern, but we have no trees to the west and a vast flood plain out there. Those trees are south, and the wind will come from the west and NW in winter. My batteries stay full spring-fall. This has been a year of learning, going well so far.
thank you for the video, does mounting the wind turbine on the building cause and noise inside the building?
I'm wanting to do the same thing but concerned that the building may turn into a big speaker.
The noise is a low hum I do not find loud or anoying at all. It may be the massive wood post I have the thick sch 40 pipe mounted to, absorbs vibration, minimizing noise. The blades on this model are only 32 inches, longer blades will be louder.
Well our monitor crashed for our computer a few days ago but back up now. Wanted to get back to you right away. We had not had good winds yet when you asked about the noise. Well we had 30-35 mph winds a couple days ago and it was noisy in the shop. I did not find it annoying but I'm hard to annoy. However there was a whining hum when it was spinning in that 35mph wind. Using sections of water pipe insolating foam may help. But I'm ok with it as it is.
so has the wind turbine produced any power yet? at what wind speed will the system start producing power? what was the cost of the parts for this system?
It has produced some power. We had good wind off and on end of Sept (15mph). I watched the Classic display climb to 1200 watts. My batteries were full so the voltage reducer kicked in to controlled the output. The "cut in" is 6mph but it takes about 12 mph to produce a reading on the Classic. In winter I will have a real world picture of its power when the soc of my batteries is lower and the wind is blowing harder 20-30 mph. Cost of package $3,000 / pipe $60
Too high cost for wind turbine and not reliable at all, better to put more solar and batteries than wind turbine, atlest in Australia where solar panels and LIFEO4 is dirt cheap. A free washing machine motor that you can find from the side of the roads can produce more than this $3000 worth wind turbine.
I'm not Savey enough to build a turbine from an old washer. I think I have enough solar, it's the heavy cloud cover here in winter that is the problem and more solar won't do the trick. We have great wind in winter so I'm hopeful it will work for me.
This looks really nice!
I just finished putting up my wind tower last month with a 2000 W wind turbine. I am just starting out with 48 V 400 ah battery bank, 10,000 W inverter(second one on the way) and 16 x 555 W longi solar panels.
I'm really looking forward to your numbers. As I am in the construction phase and probably have most of the things hooked up this weekend.
At my location, I have an average yearly windspeed of 9 m/s at 40 m. I'm still in the testing stage, my winter turbine is at only 9.75 m. Or 32 feet plus an extra 10 foot lake sure effect.
My back up generator is just a Honda 3000 iS, so the best it can do is about 20 A at 120 V. I'm still looking for a charger for it, for the big 48 V batteries.
th-cam.com/video/8Bp8fcbilzs/w-d-xo.html
th-cam.com/video/esDfCh-d_ns/w-d-xo.html
Sounds like your building a nice system. I hope the turbine will charge my batteries well this winter, I will advise further. That gen will probably need to be replaced with at least a 50A to charge those batteries. I have an EG4 Chargeverter and it will raise my 600ah 48v bank 20% in 2 hours burning 2 gallons of propane.
OK, not a big deal but a bit of info for you...we have a 15-20 breeze today and the batt voltage is at 54, full is 57, but the clothes drier is running so were pullin hard from the solar. With all that going on the turbine is spinning decently and the MPPT is charging at 1.3A into the batteries. not a big deal but its doing its job. More to come.
Drier is off, batteries are full, turbine still spinning but MPPT is "resting" Auxiliary 2 on the Classic shows voltage reducer has kicked in. I think winter will bring good results.
So this setup does work with 48 volt batteries?
Absolutely, all components are designed to work specifically with 48v.
Would it work if you positioned the turbine on top of the condeser of the AC unit with a fixture so the fan can create the required wind to move the turbine when the AC is on?
Interesting question! The wind from the condenser would probably not be adequate. However bolting a vertical axis turbine to the condenser fan shaft might work. Don't know if that would cause excessive wear on the fan barrings and it would only generate power while the condenser ran. About 90% of the power I will get from mine is in winter because my batteries stay full the rest of the year so wouldn't work in my system.
LOL Got it all hooked up but NO CHARGING FROM WIND TURBINE. Waste of time.
The voltage on your batteries needs to be low enough to allow charging, has the soc dropped enough? Mine has shown good voltage coming in till the voltage reducer kicks in due to the soc of the batteries being too high. Don't give up on it too soon.
@@goingoffgridatgreenshireho435 I do know all about solar and battery charging. I did extensive testing with wind turbines as have others on YT. Unless you have sustained winds of over 25mph Wind Turbines are a waste of time. The only exception is when it is very cloudy getting nothing from your solar panels and it you have sustained winds. It will help then but probably not as well as you may hope. I hope your experience is better.
Thanks, that is why I got it for the below freezing, cloudy days of winter. Especially when its snowing, that's when 30-40 mph wind blows across my hill top. I love this stuff and can talk on it for hours!
Have you guys considered flywheel generator loop set up with magnet assistance ? They have a motorcycle wheel that works that I seen,,, not in real life tho ... but looking to try working on one
A wind defuser on the mic would be a big help as all I can hair is wind over your talking.
Sorry!! It has one but the camera I use is cheap. This was not something I planned to do. I can't even download or even watch my videos because my computer has very limited data. Some buddies bought me the camera and told me I was going to do this. When I shoot a video, I give them the disk and they upload everything for me. LOL never even thot to do this!
Why didn’t you just use 2” pipe and a coupler? - Not an Electrician, you don’t say. Honestly it will probably work just fine anyways.
That was my first plan but then I saw the 11/4 pipe next to the 2"and inspiration caught me. I think this bond is much more solid and will handle vibration and Tork better.