wind controller [RE-wrenches]

[Matt Tritt]

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Kestrel has more than a few of the 600, 800 and 1,000 Watt machines 
running through a Kestrel voltage limiter to MX-60's. They work great. 
Many have been operating over a year with no issues.

Matt

Ian Woofenden, Home Power wrote:

>
>
> 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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