Dump/charge/ controller

[Jason Wilkinson]

Has anyone tried    COLEMAN air 440  load controller on a turbine as yet? can it/does it actually work with turbines?
  Jason

[smidy]

I don´t have any experince of that controller, my first impression is not to good, 5 sec conection time seems like forever to me...and everything i´we read about dump controller say relay is big no no, it´s not if, it´s when they fail and in my world a solenoid is just a big relay. I don´t like that the turbine is conected in the dump controller, it shoud be conected to the battery. if you are on 12/24 volt, put 10 bux (ish) on a ghurd controller. just my opinion tougth.

[Jason Wilkinson]

Any one else?

[frackers]

Not quite sure what you are looking for but take a look at

http://gilks.ath.cx/~g8ecj/New_Turbine/new_controller.html and
http://gilks.ath.cx/~g8ecj/Mk3_Turbine/Mk3_controller.html

which I've developed over the last couple of years. Mine has wind and solar on it and regulates with a dump load.

It comprises 4 parts:

• The PCB that holds the parts that measure voltage, current and RPM and provide a PWM output for a dump load
• The PCB that holds the power parts of the dump load (the big MOSFETS!!)
• The PCB that interfaces to the LCD, the SD card and push buttons
• An Arduino Mega 2560

The software for it can be found on github
https://github.com/g8ecj/turbine