Interesting facts on the 3.2m machine. With the longer cable you have got it running out of stall mode and the furling behaves as I find my machines doing. The power falls when furling hard.
You are probably reaching that 30A in lower winds than before with the short cable so you may not be loosing anything at all from the longer cable run.
Others seem to report an increase in power out when furling in high winds and I am now fairly convinced that it is something to do with the stalled operation and probably at some wind speed you break clear of the stall with potential power out increasing faster than the furling can hold it. This at a time when you have a lot of energy in the wind leaves you with a lot of stator heat unless you have got the furling set low enough in the first place.
I suspect that each system needs the furling tweeked to take care of the circuit resistance and that no one tail weight is going to suit all conditions.
Flux
