wind controller [RE-wrenches]

[Ian Woofenden, Home Power]

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OutBack has an MX running on an ARE 110 in my neighborhood (but not 
on my dump truck...), but this is still under testing and 
development. They hope to hook it up to my XL.1 with a higher-voltage 
winding sometime in the next 6 weeks. Stay tuned.

Ian

At 6:20 AM +0100 5/12/08, Hugh Piggott wrote:
>>I just had a customer call me saying he was told at a show that
>>someone had a functioning controller that would do wind or solar.
>>Anyone heard of anything up and running yet?
>>I know several are in the works, anyone got there yet?
>>He actually seemed surprised I didn't have one.
>
>The word 'controller' covers many possible meanings but the 
>Morningstar Tristar (and of course the older Trace c-40 with its 
>delayed action) is a solar controller that can also be configured as 
>a diversion load controller for wind or hydro applications.  I 
>wonder if he meant one of these diversion load controllers?  With 
>enough load you can also use them for hybrid wind/solar applications.
>
>Last year when I was in Washington state, Ouback did some tests on 
>an MPPT wind variant of the MX60 controller but it was a very brief 
>truck test of a homebrew turbine and I never heard that they took it 
>further.  More like a day out having fun.  Windy boy inverters are 
>now quite a commonplace thing but we don't have a product for the 
>stand-alone market that optimises the turbine voltage like that. 
>Except for the Bergey XL.1 of course and the old Marlec fm 1800. 
>But no third party stuff.  I would be very interested if there were 
>something.
>
>No tornados here in Scotland yet.  But plenty of UK Bergey blades 
>have hit towers in the past.  I think they made them stiffer at some 
>stage?
>
>--
>Hugh Piggott
>
>Scoraig Wind Electric
>
>http://www.scoraigwind.co.uk

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