
After almost an year of planning, scrounging, tinkering and building it's up and producing power.
Special thanks to this board especially the Dans, Ed and Hugh who's advice and help made this possible.
It stands about 45' high supported by guy wires on a 60' radius secured to the ground using home made "duckbill" anchors.
I'm using an 8' 2 bladed rotor and it starts in winds of 8-10 mph.
It starts to furl at about 40 mph winds and time will tell how long it will last.
The most current I've measured out of it was about 36 amps at 14.5 volts into the battery banks. This was during a gust estimated to be about 30-35 mph.
Have to complete my electronics and monitoring system to get reliable data. Line loss is a killer, 500 watts into the batteries and another 1000 watts in copper/line losses.
Having a hell of a lot of fun though,
Hank |
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