<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Oops, the dump load water heater is at the turbine, not the inverter. :)<div><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; ">Randy Brooks</font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; ">Brooks Solar, Inc.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><b><i>Solar Power for People</i></b></font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; ">140 Columbia View</font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; ">Chelan, WA<span class="Apple-converted-space"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>98816</font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; ">509-682-9646</font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><a href="mailto:Randy@BrooksSolar.com">Randy@BrooksSolar.com</a></font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; ">www.BrooksSolar.com</font></p></span> </div><br><div><div>On Apr 22, 2010, at 4:37 PM, Randy Brooks wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"> Mark,<div><br></div><div>PowerSpout, from New Zealand, (<a href="http://www.powerspout.com">www.powerspout.com</a>) makes a grid tie version of their turbine that includes a dump load water heater at the inverter and uses an SMA grid tie inverter. Worth checking into.</div><div><br></div><div>Good luck,</div><div><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; ">Randy Brooks</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; ">Brooks Solar, Inc.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><b><i>Solar Power for People</i></b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; ">140 Columbia View</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; ">Chelan, WA<span class="Apple-converted-space"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>98816</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; ">509-682-9646</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><a href="mailto:Randy@BrooksSolar.com">Randy@BrooksSolar.com</a></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; ">www.BrooksSolar.com</font></div></span> </div><br><div><div>On Apr 22, 2010, at 11:04 AM, Mark Dickson wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"> <div class="Section1"><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">Hello Wrenches, <o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">Got one for you. . .<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">We have a customer that has great potential for a micro-hydro system and already has the grid on his property. The obvious way to tie the turbine unit in would be to go back through batteries and a GVFX or XW. In trying to eliminate the batteries and the inefficiencies I want to look at using a battery-less grid-tie inverter. I am assuming that I could use a small inverter such as the PVP 1100 and high-voltage Stream Engine. The problem I am trying to work around is how to divert the ~240DC output of the turbine, if and when the grid goes down. Would this be as simple a placing a relay on the AC side of the inverter and having it switch on/off a large diversion load?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">For the diversion load I was thinking I could just series up a set of water heater elements to get to the necessary voltage.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">Has anybody accomplished this before? Jay? Are there any other elegant solutions for this?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">Has anybody successfully used a WindyBoy with hydro?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p> <div><p class="MsoAutoSig"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Comic Sans MS"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:navy">Best regards,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoAutoSig"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Comic Sans MS"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:navy"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoAutoSig"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Comic Sans MS"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:navy">Mark </span></font><font size="2" color="navy" face="Comic Sans MS"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; 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