Twas a beautiful day in New Jersey .
for all who are still suffering in the grips of winter , take heart ,spring is on the way
was mid 50's and windy enough for me to take the minigenII out for a spin.
here are some of the pix i took
this is the rest voltage as i started , the battery was free , so if ya think its shot you're probably right! in fact i'm surprized it survived without the casing cracking , because the Uninteruptable Power Supply i got it out of was mangled by a dumpster. the thing that saved it from getting crushed was the transformer
this is the stuff i brought with me ,from top left , wind gauge , spare 12V sla battery , two 1Farad Caps in parallel,battery under charge , ammeter, volt meter , front left spare 6Volt sla.
This is a good shot of the mini gen , i changed the tail to two sanded cedar shingles and covered them with polyester resin ,came out nice .That very large building behind the trees is Monmouth U Library, this is a buddys place.
i thought the windmill might experience turbulance , but only once did it change direction really fast and even then it was only about 75 degrees.
Eighteen and a half watts from junk ! well sort of junk ..
it was at 1.5Amps a lot , 1.7A occationally and over 2Amps once or twice.
of course every time i had the camera ready to take a shot , i would either miss the gust or the wind would stop.
I am happy to report The VCR head is still working fine as a hub for the mini gen.
