[RE-wrenches] FW: Fwd: small wind generators

Dana dana at solarwork.com
Wed Apr 4 07:54:18 PDT 2012


I sent this to SWWP and they are in a meeting but will comment later today.
Said they had a lot on this.

 

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Esteemed Wrenches;

 

I've been watching this thread closely, and I'm thinking something is really
fishy about the Sunforce turbine....distributed by Coleman (camp stoves,
sleeping bags, lanterns) and also distributed by Home Depot, Lowes, Sears,
Target, Radio Shack, Kmart, Fry's, West Marine, Northern Tool.... I'm too
busy right now to do any investigative journalism. The "400" looks like a
Southwest Wind Power product, but I can't tell. The "600"  appears to be a
Chinese turbine, like so many we have seen before.

Fishy things:

~ Sunforce company website and docs do not show any UL or CE listing for the
included MPPT controller, nor any country of manufacture; ~ reviews on
Amazon saying the Sunforce is really "Made in USA" by "Southwest Wind
Power." Shills?

~ Mutally-linking advertising / sales drive / link spam websites not related
to either Sunforce or SWWP that extoll the virtues of the Sunforce, quoting
each other, some even using the name "Sunforce Whisper";

 

Is there an official rep from SWWP on this list? It would be interesting to
hear if the Sunforce turbines are really made by SWWP in the USA. If not --
SWWPs legal department has some work cut out for them.

 

I may have made a misjudgement here -- but I doubt it! Smells like snake
oil, and I bet all of the wind power professionals on this site have a keen
nose for rotten fish,

--

Dan Fink,

Executive Director;

Otherpower

Buckville Energy Consulting

Buckville Publications LLC

NABCEP / IREC accredited Continuing Education Providers

970.672.4342 (voicemail)

 

 

 

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