Ken, Could you supply more details about the parts numbers and sources of your gas tube/zener/surge protectors?
Norm S/V Bandersnatch Lying Julington Creek FL > [Original Message] > From: ken <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Date: 2/5/2010 2:30:57 PM > Subject: Re: [Liveaboard] Wind generators > > I have had an Southeast Windpower (Air Marine) unit for years, started > life as an Air 303 but was upgraded several times as blades were broken > and the electronics were damaged from nearby lightning strikes. The > early units were noisy, I didn't think it was bad but many did, now > though the 2006 model is very quite. It makes 400 + watts, has its own > very clever regulator that doesn't waste power as it uses its own power > to brake the blades in high winds rather than using excess power to heat > up resistors or similar methods that make lots of heat and risk runaway > like many types of wind gennys do, can be easily stopped with an > external switch, and weighs only 11 pounds. > > I think very low speed start up is sort of a red herring as very little > power is made in low winds, even a quite moderate solar panel will do > much better than a wind genny in very light winds, so you do need both. > > Also I added a very large capacity and fast acting gas tube/zener diode > surge suppressor to try to mitigate lightning damage. That cost me > thousands of dollars in wind genny damage alone over the last ten years > or so, I also have smaller zener type surge protectors on most small > loads in the boat which have demonstrably helped in the past. -Ken > _______________________________________________ > Liveaboard mailing list > [email protected] > To adjust your membership settings over the web http://www.liveaboardnow.org/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard > To subscribe send an email to [email protected] > > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > The archives are at http://www.liveaboardnow.org/pipermail/liveaboard/ > > To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] > > The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list [email protected] To adjust your membership settings over the web http://www.liveaboardnow.org/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] The archives are at http://www.liveaboardnow.org/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
