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Phil and all,<br>
<br>
The industry insiders have a great saying that sums this all up....<br>
<br>
Skystream owners without production meters love their turbines.<br>
Those with meters hate them.....<br>
<br>
Let's hope SWWP does what it must to turn this around and do what's
right for <br>
the industry. Hey...I can dream can't I??<br>
<br>
<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">Roy Butler
NABCEP Certified Solar PV Installer®
NYSERDA eligible PV & wind installer
Four Winds Renewable Energy, LLC
8902 Route 46
Arkport, NY 14807
607-324-9747
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.four-winds-energy.com">www.four-winds-energy.com</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.nationalsolarsupply.com">www.nationalsolarsupply.com</a>
Although no trees were killed in the sending of this message,
a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced.
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<br>
<br>
Phil Schneider wrote:
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<title>Re: [RE-wrenches] Skystream 3.7 experiences?</title>
<font face="Gill Sans, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span
style="font-size: 12px;">Our experience with the Skystream here in
Wyoming has been good so far. We have installed 6, the oldest one
being in operation for about 14 months. One is part of a battery based
grid-tie system, and operated well when tested. One of the turbines is
in world-class wind in Southeast Wyoming. I just checked with the
owner and it produced about 480 kWh in the last month on a short tower
(with a hundred miles of sagebrush to the windward side) at almost 6000
ft elevation. Unfortunately this turbine doesn’t have an
anemometer/data logger, so we don’t know if it is performing as
expected. My guess is that it spends a lot of time self-regulating.<br>
<br>
One of the turbines was in the recent batch of recalls and was dealt
with by a SWWP-hired contractor. This involved a potential leak in a
seal of the electronics compartment in the nacelle (although for some
reason they are replacing the whole turbine). While reaching somebody
at SWWP tech support has been nearly impossible, this turbine swap was
handled fairly swiftly.<br>
<br>
>From the others’ experience, sounds like we should keep our fingers
crossed.<br>
<br>
P.<br>
</span></font><span style="font-size: 12px;"><font
face="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><br>
</font><font face="Gill Sans, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><b>Phil
Schneider</b>, system engineer<br>
<font color="#ff8000">Creative Energies<br>
</font><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.CreativeEnergies.biz">www.CreativeEnergies.biz</a><br>
307.332.3410 Lander, WY<br>
208.354.3001 Victor, ID<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<hr align="center" size="3" width="95%"><b>From: </b>Kurt
Albershardt <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:info@es-ee.com"><info@es-ee.com></a><br>
<b>Reply-To: </b>RE-wrenches
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:re-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org"><re-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org></a><br>
<b>Date: </b>Tue, 23 Dec 2008 08:26:38 -0800<br>
<b>To: </b>RE-wrenches <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:re-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org"><re-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org></a><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Re: [RE-wrenches] Skystream 3.7 experiences?<br>
<br>
</font></span><font size="1"><font face="Monaco, Courier New"><span
style="font-size: 9px;">
--On Monday, December 22, 2008 6:23 PM -0500 Roy Butler
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:roy@four-winds-energy.com"><roy@four-winds-energy.com></a> wrote:
>
> In a nutshell.....this unit is not ready for prime time yet. Lots
of bugs and glitches.
> Not to mention much lower than expected energy production.
--On Monday, December 22, 2008 5:13 PM -0700 Louis Woofenden
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:louis@woofenden.net"><louis@woofenden.net></a> wrote:
>
> We've installed a couple of Skystream units here in southern
Arizona. We know the tilt-up tower works quite well--we've had to bring
each unit down 2-3 times for various problems with electronics. Added
to this was SWWP's extremely poor customer service. They took several
days to even call us back, didn't send promised parts, etc. Of course,
these two installation sites are one and two hours from our shop. We
had one customer who was just about ready to throw the unit in the back
of his truck, and drive it the five hours up to Flagstaff.
>
> It looks slick, the installation was no problem, but if it doesn't
work reliably, none of that really matters, in my opinion. I was hoping
SWWP would get this one right, but I don't think it's there yet.
Given the long and well documented SWWP history, I was afraid of this.
Has anyone successfully coupled a Bergey Xl.1 to a grid-tie? Anything
else to recommend in the 1-5 kW range?
thanks...
> Might have something to do with those little fence posts they call
towers ;-)
>
> And that Smart foundation only works on towers 60' or less.
> Too short for most sites and not a good height for energy
production anyway.
>
> Believe me.....most of us would love to see plug and play/ modular
tower
> and turbine systems but there's no such beast yet!
>
> Best advice......take a wait and see approach.
>
> Roy Butler
> NABCEP Certified Solar PV Installer®
> NYSERDA eligible PV & wind installer Four Winds Renewable
Energy, LLC
> 8902 Route 46
> Arkport, NY 14807
> 607-324-9747
>
> <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.four-winds-energy.com">www.four-winds-energy.com</a>
> <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.nationalsolarsupply.com">www.nationalsolarsupply.com</a>
>
> Although no trees were killed in the sending of this message, a
large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced.
>
>
>
>
> Kurt Albershardt wrote:
>> Anyone have realworld experience with the SWWP Skystream 3.7
they can
>> share?
>>
>> The AnemErgonics foundation kit looks fairly well thought out.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
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