Hi Airstream,
Sorry about the lack of information. I was thinking if I had something that could generate the voltage for a grid tie inverter, and I could keep it furling without burning up a stator I was good to go. But it appears its more complicated than that.
Here's some extra information, I'm in the upstate of South Carolina, close toe the mountains, the wind is low to moderate, I would say it averages about 7-10 miles an hour when its blowing..sometimes nothing at all, but if I had to "guesstimate" I would think it was 7-10 miles an hour for about 10-12 hours a day. Yet, just a few days ago we had some 25-30 miles an hour winds for a few days (very rare) but it does happen living in the foothills of the mountains....
Sorry I should have done some hard numbers with an aeronometer before asking.
I realize now was I had posed a very broad question.
My idea situation is to also add solar...eventually I want to have about a 4kw+ system of panels also grid tied. I want to use both wind and solar, yet remain on the grid, using net metering for a kw-kw exchange.
While I can reduce my energy consumption I still have get the misses and the child on board to the concept of conservation. So instead of fighting the long battle, it would simply be easier to harp about using so much power while simply feeding back into the grid when generating with wind and solar.
I would like to see the 17 foot mill taking care of about 25 percent of my montly energy needs while the solar system does bulk of the work....my problem is I dont have any idea what the monthly average is for a wind generator that the Dan's 17 footer could produce?
I was hoping it could take care of about 25% of my monthly energy needs, if it's more I can subtract solar panels from the future system or add if the wind gen produces less on average.
Thanks,
Gavin