Hi to all. Here is my experience A friend of mine called me,told me about a guy who bought a "turbine" and it's not working, i asked him what type and he said Missouri wind and solar, but they sent the 24volt saying it can produce 1600 watt his inverter and batt is 12volt.. I offer to looked at it for him. Went, it was on the tower which was on the ground. 1st thing i noticed it had 9 blades, we took off 6 blades, i noticed it had quite a bit of cogging. we raised the tower into very high winds and no rotation. We jumped started it (ie touching 2 output leads with correct polarity to a batt ) and got it to turn , sure enough we got our 24volts but as the wind died so did the blades.we took it down replaced the 6 blades raised it again waited for a gust and it started turning. Next was to check the amps (that day the wind was very high about 20 mph)connect out amp meter in series with the batt and we only got a max of 9 amps .
Now tell me if it's rated at 1600 watts and it's a 24volt alternator my limited maths tells me i should get over 60 amps .
We only got 9 amps never once did out meter see 10 amps all we waited like i said the wind was strong that day. That guy is now sorry he spent his money on something that does not live up to what it claims to do
PS that same day i was getting 30 amps from mine
Jason