ALMOST perfect RE day

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bright sun, not a cloud in the sky, 15mph winds gusting well over 20.  perfect....except nothing to do w/ the power!!  the 4' turbine was making plenty of power to keep the batteries on float which meant the solar controller was basically at 0w.  when the wind slowed down, the solar charger would climb to its float wattage of about 40w.  soon as the turbine hit cut in, it would idle the panels back again.  700w solar, 4' turbine...i'm guesstimating here, but had i had some loads, i could have made close to 5kw today...instead of the puny .5kw running the batts at float all day!

have everything on a temp setup for testing over the winter.  won't get the power to the house until spring, and hopefully next year get a 10' turbine up too.  i can just imagine the 10 footer out there today!  the battery bank is 24v @ 440ah...i don't have a dump load set up yet as i figure the best the 4' turbine does is avg 2 amps which is what the solar controller puts out on float.  so i'm not too worried about overloading the batts w/ the 4'...but i do need the dump on there soon just to be safe.

[DamonHD]

Mmmm, nice.

Sure you don't have a nice Jacob's Ladder that you could power up to frighten intruders?  B^>

Rgds

Damon

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the only thing i found to power was a cpl 35w headlights.  figured i'd leave them on just to take some power off the top.  the pair draws about 3 amps, just enough to cancel what the turbine puts in.

[Bruce S]

Got an old radio you can throw on there to listen to? There has got to be something around you can use directly. OR use with a MSW inverter you could say watch a little tv, charge a car battery, electric weedeater/cultivator.
 
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[TomW]

Same kinda day here.

Running all the computers a couple TV's (off and on) The vacuum plus the  fridge & freezers and miscellaneous items we normally run on RE. A solid 30 and bursts to 130 amps in all day.

I need my water heater dump load controller mister Hurd! rather than dumping it outside as heat.   ahem.

Otherwise I will be forced into finding another 1000AH of traction batteries.

Its the real fun of RE as a hobby. What can I run today?

I love it

Tom

[defed]

Got an old radio you can throw on there to listen to? There has got to be something around you can use directly. OR use with a MSW inverter you could say watch a little tv, charge a car battery, electric weedeater/cultivator.
 
B

the only DC loads i could scrounge up were the headlights.  i actually have 2 pair which i was running both sets while i was home.  i had to leave again so i left 1 set running, figuring everything would end production soon.  i will have access to a cheapo MSW inverter here shortly....hopefully it still works.