[RE-wrenches] Interfacing an Air 403 wind generator

Darryl Thayer daryl_solar at yahoo.com
Thu May 5 17:08:57 PDT 2011


I would have gone with the Outback inverter and let the solar and wind turbine 
put power into the grid via the outback.  

DT




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From: Drake <drake.chamberlin at redwoodalliance.org>
To: RE-wrenches <re-wrenches at lists.re-wrenches.org>
Sent: Thu, May 5, 2011 4:59:22 PM
Subject: Re: [RE-wrenches] Interfacing an Air 403 wind generator

Are these holding up any better than in the past? 

At 05:46 PM 5/5/2011, you wrote:

I'm with Bob-o on this one.  I suspect if they had any indicator of the power it 
actually produced, they would be less in love with it.
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>Chris Daum
>Oasis Montana Inc.
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[mailto:re-wrenches-bounces at lists.re-wrenches.org] On Behalf Of Bob-O Schultze
>Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2011 3:13 PM
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>Give it a resistor to work against and call it Kinetic Yard Art. Not worth much 
>else... 
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>On May 5, 2011, at 11:15 AM, Peter Talmage wrote:
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>Hi Dana,
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>The battery and all associated equipment is being totally removed as the folks 
>are now unable to do the required maintenance. They really love the little Air 
>403 and would like to interface it if at all possible even if it doesn't make 
>economical sense.
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>Peter
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>--- On Thu, 5/5/11, Dana <dana at solarwork.com> wrote:
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>From: Dana <dana at solarwork.com>
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>Subject: [RE-wrenches] Interfacing an Air 403 wind generator
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>To: "'RE-wrenches'" <re-wrenches at lists.re-wrenches.org>
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>Date: Thursday, May 5, 2011, 1:32 PM
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>The Air is DC, wouldn’t it just feed the battery bank and  there for less from 
>the PV to the battery bank and therefore more PV to go to the grid tie………
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>It is a mighty small unit to go to the effort to grid tie unless he has a 18MPH+ 
>yearly wind speed. If he has that much wind go for a SWWP - Skystream wind 
>turbine that is UL listed for grid tie.
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>From: re-wrenches-bounces at lists.re-wrenches.org 
>[mailto:re-wrenches-bounces at lists.re-wrenches.org] On Behalf Of Peter Talmage
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>Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2011 11:26 AM
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>To: RE-wrenches
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>Subject: [RE-wrenches] Interfacing an Air 403 wind generator
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>I have a client with an independent power system who is going utility 
>interfaced. We are putting the 24 volt arrays on Ephase inverters. He wants the 
>Air 403 to be interfaced as well. Has anyone done this and if so, how ?  Thanks
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>Peter Talmage, P.E.
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>Energy and Design
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