[RE-wrenches] small wind generators

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Sunforce is junk IMHO and not made in Flagstaff by SWWp
Jeremy
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-----Original Message-----
From: Dan Fink <danbob88 at gmail.com>
Sender: re-wrenches-bounces at lists.re-wrenches.orgDate: Tue, 3 Apr 2012 18:24:51 
To: RE-wrenches<re-wrenches at lists.re-wrenches.org>
Reply-To: RE-wrenches <re-wrenches at lists.re-wrenches.org>
Subject: Re: [RE-wrenches] small wind generators

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)


On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 7:44 AM, Drake
<drake.chamberlin at redwoodalliance.org> wrote:
> Hello Wrenches,
>
> Are the new Air 403 wind machines more reliable than in times past?
>
> I'm also looking at a Sunforce 600 W machine.  How do these small turbines
> hold up these days?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Drake
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