[RE-wrenches] Interfacing an Air 403 wind generator

Thu May 5 19:15:33 PDT 2011

Seriously,

If you remove the blades they make a nice quiet wind direction indicator
although a little more expensive than a wet finger.

Carl Emerson

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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 R Ray
Walters
Sent: 6 May 2011 1:05 p.m.
To: RE-wrenches
Subject: Re: [RE-wrenches] Interfacing an Air 403 wind generator

Bob-O;

I was going to hold off on the obvious....

I think they're also good as a bird repellant, noise maker, etc. but I've
never seen one actually make over 175 watts, and that was a 1 sec burst in
strong wind. SWWP always said the low output was due to the thinner air at
high altitude, but then Bergey always claimed our problems with the XL1S
popping a 60 amp breaker was also due to high altitude, and the blades
spinning faster.

Confused? Hmmm.

I'd say the bottom line is If the customer wants backup power, then go
Outback for the whole system, and keep the turbine just for funnzies. 

R. Walters

ray at solarray.com

Solar Engineer

On May 5, 2011, at 3:12 PM, Bob-O Schultze wrote:

Give it a resistor to work against and call it Kinetic Yard Art. Not worth
much else...

On May 5, 2011, at 11:15 AM, Peter Talmage wrote:

Hi Dana,

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.

Peter

--- On Thu, 5/5/11, Dana <dana at solarwork.com> wrote:

From: Dana <dana at solarwork.com>
Subject: [RE-wrenches] Interfacing an Air 403 wind generator
To: "'RE-wrenches'" <re-wrenches at lists.re-wrenches.org>
Date: Thursday, May 5, 2011, 1:32 PM

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...

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.

Dana Orzel

Great Solar Works, Inc

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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
Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2011 11:26 AM
To: RE-wrenches
Subject: [RE-wrenches] Interfacing an Air 403 wind generator

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

Peter Talmage, P.E.

Energy and Design

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