NMwindrider;
What you have can be viewed as a beginner's guide to wind RE. More than likely ( without seeing the link or specs of the unit you bought) I'd say you got a pretty good small beginner's system. Not knowing what you paid for it, it's hard to say if you got taken or not.
At max power you'll have going into your battery set about 6Amps at 12Vdc that's rougly 72 watts. Very usable.
The 1000 watt invertor is doing it's job prefectly, let it keep on doing that.
IF you want to do more , you'll need to invest a bit more time and give us some more details of what you want to do and the specifics of your system.
The guage of the wire inside, the regulator settings the blade diameter , how high up in the "good" air it is and such. Also, we'll need to know some info of your inverter connections. What is the guage wire going from the batteries to the inverter? how long is the wire?
What types of loads are you working with on the inverter?
A word of caution DO NOT let the mill free wheel like that, always try to keep some kind of load on it, even if you're working on the down stream stuff, go get an old car battery and connect to lines to the battery or short them together. A free wheeling mill is the quickest way to have it die an eraly death!!!
Also; do not connect the batteries so you have higher voltage going into the inverter, at best the inverter will shut down from over voltage, at worst , you'll burn up the inverter.
Cheers
Bruce S
