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GE 1HP ECM motor windmill | 22 comments (22 topical, editorial)
Re: GE 1HP ECM motor windmill (3.00 / 0) (#5)
by ghurd on Sun Oct 5th, 2008 at 07:19:28 PM MST
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Jerry may chime in.

I saw the pic in your files. (when you want it to show in the story, there ia an "Insert Photo" drop down, maybe top right or at the bottom)
Link to photo,
http://www.otherpower.com/images/scimages/11564/geecmcolorcoded.JPG

There is no edit.

'Camper' makes me think try a 1/2HP.  Anything larger is an awful lot for a battery not being used.
Not sure what you mean by "a triple cell deep cycle", but anything larger than 1/2HP may be too much for the battery anyway.
May get a 1/2HP, Jerry Rig for limited current while hopefully staying out of a bad stall.

No. I still don't have a permanent one flying.  And ran out of summer again.
G-


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Re: GE 1HP ECM motor windmill (3.00 / 0) (#9)
by pmurf1 (pmurf1@yahoo.com) on Sun Oct 5th, 2008 at 07:46:25 PM MST
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Ghurd,

 Thanks for the help with the pic, it shows up in your post. Good to know there's no edit, I didn't see it in the rules either.

 As far as the triple deep cycle battery, my neighbor works for a credit card processor that has triple redundant systems for the electrical and generators. They swap out their huge generator starting batteries every two years regardless if they need it or not. That and they are maintained all the time to prevent failure. They look like 3 deep cycle batteries put together, just in one case. I don't know the specs on them, but it takes two guys to lift them. I put one in my slide in camper that I dry camp with, and the other in my boat which powers a monster stereo. I used to run out of battery on both before, but no more. I know he's getting 6 more in June when they swap out the others on his other gen sets. I'm the kind of guy that will take something because it's free and I might need it later, I've got the room to store stuff and I'd rather recycle it than toss it. If I can get a couple of these going, I may have a free battery bank next summer.

 Do you or any others after looking at the photo have any input how I should wire them? In other words, if you've done it to make a low wind output mill what wires do I need to hook together. Hopefully you can make it easy for a newbie like me to understand, as in hook 1 to 3, 5 to 9, etc.. for example.

Pat

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