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<p>Does anyone have experience with APRS's WT10 turbine? They've
been around for along time, but I've not tried that turbine. <br>
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<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">Ray Walters
Remote Solar
303 505-8760</pre>
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<div dir="ltr">Chris,
<div> Thanks for the reality check on Kohilo. I just tried to
get info from them asking for a power curve. No response. If
a wind turbine manufacturer can't provide even a
rudimentary power curve chart, then it doesn't work. <i> </i>I
made one for my first homemade wind turbine simply by watching
the anemometer and wattage at different windspeeds for awhile
and writing down the numbers I was seeing and then draw the
graph. Wind always cooperates and gives constantly changing
speeds.</div>
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<div dir="ltr">RUN from the room when it comes to the Kohilo!
This ole boy is in my backyard and I'm currently trying to
clean up one of their projects. They kinda went the way of
Wind Tamer, whereas they had to add solar to meet their
output claims.
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<p class="MsoNormal">Morning fellow wrenchers. There
is a newer Wind turbine company based in the North
East called Kohilo Wind. Link below</p>
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<p><a href="http://kohilowind.com/about-kohilo-wind/"
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<p>thx</p>
<p>peter Giroux</p>
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: [RE-wrenches] Wind Turbine</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Ron and John and all,<br>
<br>
SD Wind Energy out of Texas is representing what was
the Proven/Kingspan down wind turbines. They have a
3 and 6kW turbine now but I heard through<br>
the grapevine that they may have a 1kW in the near
future. Price is a bit high but they are solid
machines.<br>
<a href="https://sd-windenergy.com/" target="_blank"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://sd-windenergy.com/</a><br>
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Other folks have been using the Braun turbine out of
Germany but that's really spendy. <br>
<br>
The Whisper line was good, then Southwest Wind Power
bought it, they went under, a company from India
bought it, then it went to Japan<br>
and last I heard it's now owned by a Chinese
company.....buyer beware!<br>
<br>
Although there are a couple of small turbine
manufacturer's in the US making 1kW to 2kW machines,
I am assuming you want something reliable so<br>
you may want to steer clear of those. I won't name
names here. And of course there are all those
tempting units for sale on Amazon and Ebay....run<br>
screaming from the room on those.<br>
<br>
Slim pickings out there, the small wind industry
began a rapid decline back around 2012 when the PV
prices started dropping. Most of us wind weanies<br>
moved to solar installations to help support our
wind habit and decreased wind sales put many turbine
manufacturers out of business. <br>
<br>
Anyway, best of luck on your search and if you find
something and care to run it by me off list please
do so! </p>
<pre>Roy Butler</pre>
<pre>Four Winds Renewable Energy, LLC</pre>
<pre>8902 Route 46, Arkport, NY 14807</pre>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Ron, I installed a lot of
the Bergey XL.1 until they stopped production.
I just replaced blades on one last week and
my first install of one of the first ones
manufactured in 2001 is still working fine.
We took in down about 10 years ago for
preventive maintenance and replaced the
brushes and blades though both were still in
good shape. Most problems have been blades,
brushes and a few tower failures mostly due to
customer neglect or violent storms. I
installed a Pika </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">1.6 kw at my home about 4
years ago and fell in love with that machine.
Pika solved the Blade root attachment weakness
found on the Bergey as well as sound issues and
performance. Unfortunately they stopped
production due to low sales. I ran mine for a
year and a half and almost eliminated my
generator in a low wind speed site but att he
same time saw it perform flawlessly in high
winds putting out well over 2500 watts and
regulating my batteries at float with no dump
loads needed. I got my first order for one and
called Pika to order one but they had already
stopped production and were not going to make
any more. I had sold a customer a complete
upgrade of his system which included upgrading
from a Xantrex SW Plus to dual Outback
inverters, going from 24v to 48v, and directly
replacing his Bergey with a Pika, and new Aquion
batteries. Sine we had already done the rest of
the system, I ended up selling mine to him to
keep him happy. I dearly miss that machine.
Since Pika sold out to Generac, I\u2019m hanging on a
glimmer of hope that the turbine production
could be resurrected. </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Otherwise, the only new
turbine I have installed is a 1 kw SuperWind,
made in Germany. It is on a 40\u2019 tilt up guyed
tower on a mountaintop transmitter site. It has
performed as expected with the only problem
being susceptible to icing and the blade hub
freezing to the nacelle. It is all white so the
sun can\u2019t help defrost it. Very nice
workmanship but it also has a controller and
dump load In addition to pitching blades.
Similar cost as the Pika. I don\u2019t have any
data on how much the dump load has interacted
with the controller. This is a high wind site.
I\u2019m not sure how it would perform in low winds.
We put it up in November and it survived the
winter. If you could find a used Pika, that
would be my choice but I haven\u2019t found one yet
myself. Let me know If you find anything else.
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Wrenches. Wondering what people are liking
out there right now. I know it\u2019s a pretty
skinny market and lots of junk but my
client would like to replace an aging
model that he has in a low to moderate
wind area, not spend too much money but
spend enough to get reliable. Ideally
around 1kW but smaller is ok. </p>
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