Most solar controllers go in the circuit between the panel and the battery, This is a series controller.
This method has serious problems with wind and is not normally used. For wind ( and it works for solar) the standard controller is a shunt or diversion controller.
A sensing circuit senses battery voltage ( direct from battery terminals) and when it exceeds a set value the controller shunts a load across the batter, diverting any excess current above that needed to hold the battery at control volts.
The whole thing works without altering the input power ( wind or sun) and it doesn't need to know what the source is doing, it just drains any excess current from the battery above that needed to charge it at the set voltage.
Below controller set volts all input current from all sources goes into the battery as charge. Once you reach the set point the battery voltage is held constant and the battery will accept as much current as it needs to continue charging and any excess current is diverted to a dump load.
Any controller that open circuits the source will not be suitable for a wind turbine. Similarly any controller that shorts the source ( as some solar ones do) will also cause big problems with a wind turbine. A few controllers seem to offer the option of transferring the mill output to a resistor ahead of the controller and they may work on a small scale but I can't really see this idea working as a single resistor will not act as a sensible load for a turbine separated from the battery .
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