So I'm going to do a kickstarter thing to try and fund whatever project I'm working on over the Summer (hopefully by then I'll be fully caught up on my existing projects). I asked around and this is my list so far:
$304 DC grid tie inverterThis going to be the goal of the kickstarter...something small, if I exceed it I can do to other projects but this is the starting point. The point of this project will be to compare how this inverter works versus a generic $100 inverter like the ones I already use. We're going to measure output from one turbine going through my power board into the cheap $100 inverter to get a baseline measurement. Then we're going to swap the cheap inverter out for this one and see if there's any performance difference between the two.
Further, after the initial test with the turbine is conducted we're going to do essentially the same test with three 250w solar panels and see which model yields the best results.
$406 3-phase grid tie inverterThese inverters capable of accepting 3-phase AC current have been asked about quite a few times and it's a product I've really wanted to try out. If we can hit $400 we'll try this 3-phase inverter instead of the DC grid tie inverter. With this one we'll isolate one of the turbines and measure output from it through my existing board and get a baseline for how it's performing now. Then we'll disconnect it from the power board and run it straight through this inverter to see what kind of differences we can get.
$775 The aforementioned HurricaneThis is a turbine I've come across that's really caught my interest. I feel it would be pretty comparable to the iSta Breeze i1500 and I'm really interested in pitting the two against one another to see which one gets the best results. If we can get the $775 it'll take to get the thing here I'll put it up at the same height, same wire, same rectifier, same everything as the i1500 and we'll get side by side results.
$780 A fancier Chinese vertical turbineThis is a turbine suggested to me. I haven't heard of them before but I would really like to see a consumer level vertical turbine that will actually produce a usable amount of power.
$975 A turbine I've never heard of before...Same as the vertical turbine, this is a model I had suggested to me. The person who suggested it says he's had very good luck with the company's smaller models. It's a design that's new to me and it's something I would really like to take apart and see how much of it is "fancy shrouding" and how much of it is unique design.
$1240 The same Hurricane turbine but it includes one of those three phase invertersThis is the same Hurricane vector as described above, but it includes a three phase grid tie inverter. If we can hit this target point we'll conduct the same tests I described above...we'll pit the Hurricane against the i1500 and we'll pit the expensive 3-phase inverters against running a bridge, batteries, and a cheap eBay/Amazon inverter.
And, just for mmurray70 I'm looking for a set of i1500 blades that I can tie to a gas motor and see if I can blow them up.
