The ghurd controller handles 6A of individual load per power mosfet.
Want to dump more power? Add more power mosfets and loads.
Think of the power mosfets as relays that can handle 6A.
"Unlimited Current" is limited by the current the relay can handle.
There are some ghurd controllers handling over 1200W.
A relay based system is not likely to handle 100A of 12VDC long if connected as shown in the original post.
I do not recommend my controller with power such as 1200W. A system that size would generally benefit from a superior 3-stage temperature compensated factory made controller.
The controller shown in the original post has some serious issues.
First- If you can not figure out the parts shown in the schematic and know how a power mosfet works, it will likely cost more than a factory made controller if ALL the parts costs related to building it are considered (S&H from a couple places, PCB chemicals and boards {and their extra 'hazardous materials' S&H}, etc).
Second, A & B - It will be nearly impossible to get the size of the dump load correct.
A- If the dump load handles too small a load, the windmill runs away because it is severely underloaded, resulting in breaking off blades and other catastrophic failures.
Easy to find info about run away windmills and broken blades.
B- If the dump load handles too large a load, the windings will burn up in a good wind, and a good wind is when the system will be dumping.
That is something that does not get mentioned too often, because not many people think using that type of controller is a good idea.
The concept is roughly the same as the Oatly controller kits which do things like this,
http://www.fieldlines.com/story/2008/11/8/63523/3798
Third- The bioelectrifyer controller was not really very good at the time.
It could have been good with just a few tweaks.
Anything that for the control operates relays, slow enough to not kill the relay, is pretty much by definition, NOT a good controller.
Windows 3.1 was fine. It did a lot of things with very little to work with by todays standards.
It did not try to destroy everything it was connected to.
But I do recall spending 2~3 weeks pay for half a meg of RAM.
And the HDD was nowhere near large enough to hold photo's from an obsolete SD card, let alone a currently $5 SD card.
A brand new $385 Model A was state of the art at the time, but today nobody would try to drive one from NYC to LA.
I am only saying that we are talking about $15.50 (delivered), in todays prices, for something better.
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