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Coil winding / Re: How to determine the lmits of a coil / magnet configuration
« Last post by JW on February 25, 2024, 10:37:49 PM »test post
more than you asked for.Sure, every system that evolves long enough develops prehensile things like gall bladders and wisdom teeth.
I have not sat next to them at peak generation
For a long time I had an old Xantrex SW4024 inverter, which was a great workhorse inverter until mice built a nest in it, and it had to be scrapped. It worked well, but it was loud. Immediately after installing it in my "battery shed" and switching it on, I thought, "well that's never going in the house". Louder than a clothes dryer.
Fast-forward a couple of decades and I'm shopping for another inverter, which I would install in the house if it's quiet. But I can't find one. All this solid-state switching power supplies replacing coils of copper, but it's still just as noisy. If an inverter has any noise rating at all (some don't) it's pretty loud, like 60dB. That's actually quite loud, especially for a noise that is constantly humming away. The layout of my house puts the systems (electrical, heat, water etc.) in the center and the rooms radiate outward. That doesn't allow the inverter to be installed far away from bedrooms, the dining room, or the living room.
Outback doesn't give any noise data, but the installation manual for the Radian says this, "Avoid large air gaps behind the Radian inverter/charger and its mounting plate. These can result in louder mechanical noise during heavy inverting or charging." LOUDER?
Sunny Boy is 45 dB
SRNE is 60dB
Fronius is "<65dB"
These are all about as loud, or louder, than a clothes dryer. I can choose to close the door of my laundry room, but the electrical panel, where I would locate an inverter, is not isolated like that.
The Sunny Boy is the quietest I have found. Can anyone report their experience of the noise emitted by a SB inverter when it's inverting heavy loads?
Another solution is to use string inverters like Enphase, but that limits my options drastically.
Does anyone know of a quiet grid-tie inverter?
I still have a bunch of those.
I was given my first Mims book (the very one in your picture) when I was 14 years old. Learning to build little oscillators with 555's and other projects.
The 200-in-1 project kits came soon after.
Thanks for the memories, JW!
@MaryB,
I just got refunded my purchase of the F&P
Randy tells me that shipping is an additional 102 USD
I would have loved to play around with something like that. And indeed the stacking suggestion you made really is attractive to me.
Anyhow let's look forwards!
Also Ed, You know that I love you so that is why I have not send back the 16 magnets yet.
That's the second time that someone told me that they love me today. Cool, that's a good way to start my weekend.
Hz is cycles per second. 3.7 cycles, or magnets passes over the coils in 1 second equals 222 RPM.
Is that how fast you want the turbine to spin?
I am sure that you mean 3.7 RPM and not 3.7 Hz. Right?
Ed
Also Ed, You know that I love you so that is why I have not send back the 16 magnets yet.
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