the unit is pushing 30amps at 1.7kw since early morning...... lovely day for a walk on the beach.....not

the wind at work:

https://www.youtube.com/attribution_link?a=ckbYLfOgRrY&u=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DZhXIaUMEpqg%26feature%3Dshare

 

it has been blowing a bit out on the West Coast this morning. max was 30amps coming in. and batteries have remained above 54v overnight

early morning data.html

Very very nice... interesting SolWeb outputs!!  PVOutput for the turbine please...   Pretty please...

 

3 hours ago, Mark said:

Very very nice... interesting SolWeb outputs!!  PVOutput for the turbine please...   Pretty please...

 

I am sure that will happen soon. this is the first winters day that the batteries have remained full, still at 53.7volt

I am sure that will happen soon. this is the first winters day that the batteries have remained full, still at 53.7volt

Pv Output... would be good for us to see it on the Southern Africa group... SolWeb does the upload automatically. ..

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it will happen as soon as the inverters of mine are included.....

Mike, how much is a 1Kw turbine + charge controller?

On 6/21/2016 at 2:55 PM, SilverNodashi said:

Mike, how much is a 1Kw turbine + charge controller?

sorry only saw this now.... 1kw unit is R15999excl and charge controller with dump unit from R5500 for analogue or R8500 for digital touch ( excl )

 

On 6/24/2016 at 8:38 PM, Mike said:

sorry only saw this now.... 1kw unit is R15999excl and charge controller with dump unit from R5500 for analogue or R8500 for digital touch ( excl )

 

Thanx. And the pole?

12 minutes ago, SilverNodashi said:

Thanx. And the pole?

depends, if you want a guy wire type , just buy a 2 x 6m of 89mm galv steam pipe, or if you want hydraulic like mine then be prepared for around R21k for the pole alone

this morning i woke up to batteries sitting at 55v and now at 8.50 they be full at 58v, what a waste...need more batteries...nope need to figure out how to send once they full to the geyser element

Sad state of affairs... to much power... .

How are you finding the turbine - worth the investment?... The 1kw sounds like a good option as well...  what amps does that max out at (what amps is your max on yours).  If only an Infinisolar type wind controller was around... so you could skip the batteries and drive the load directly? 

 

A graph would be nice again

 

The Western Cape has had some lekker storms passing through lately so Mike is smiling all the way with too much power. I love it!

On top of that the Westcoast have no tall trees, and if there are trees, they are growing skew.

So Mike's investment in a wind turbine is brilliant.

 

@Mike my old PWM Morningstar has a built in load dump connection, designed for resistive loads. 

TriStar-Datasheet-English1.pdf

1 hour ago, The Terrible Triplett said:

The Western Cape has had some lekker storms passing through lately so Mike is smiling all the way with too much power. I love it!

On top of that the Westcoast have no tall trees, and if there are trees, they are growing skew.

So Mike's investment in a wind turbine is brilliant.

 

@Mike my old PWM Morningstar has a built in load dump connection, designed for resistive loads. 

TriStar-Datasheet-English1.pdf

i was going to ask you about dump load on the morningstar. i need to call them now, just got back from C.T. the only dissapointment i have is there is wind and my turbine is standing idle!!!!!, i must figure out how to make it work via a bypass - it needs to see a dummy battery load or something. other than that, i cannot complain with it keeping the batteries full. on average i go thru each night and the a.m. bvm702 reading on the battery is 95.6%, lowest i have pulled them since installing the turbine is 82%. How i configured my house is everything bar the kitchen is on one inverter and it runs 24/7 solar pv & battery, the other inverter runs the kitchen - daytime via pv and night via eskom - this unit also net meters daily. All needs data / proof then i will switch that unit off eskom and no more net metering.

@Mike

I have the Morningstar Tristar45 PWM controller. So up to 45amps it can charge.

If you have controller to loan me, I have 3 x 310w panels in parallel on the Morningstar, then you can try mine out first before you buy one.

A MPPT controller with wind is a wee bit useless. For I am angling for a MPPT my side.

Mike - Why don't you link a cheap 2,000W Inverter to the batteries powering a 1,500W element in your geyser. You switch the Inverter on when your battery reach 100%, using the BMV's relay? 

1 hour ago, The Terrible Triplett said:

@Mike

I have the Morningstar Tristar45 PWM controller. So up to 45amps it can charge.

If you have controller to loan me, I have 3 x 310w panels in parallel on the Morningstar, then you can try mine out first before you buy one.

A MPPT controller with wind is a wee bit useless. For I am angling for a MPPT my side.

thanks for the offer, but i don't have any mppt's here. let me see what i can organise.....

48 minutes ago, Louw said:

Mike - Why don't you link a cheap 2,000W Inverter to the batteries powering a 1,500W element in your geyser. You switch the Inverter on when your battery reach 100%, using the BMV's relay? 

Louw, you have a point there, i shall look into this. just surprising my wife with a kitchen makeover, then she won't say anything about the growing solar collection..

6 hours ago, Mark said:

Sad state of affairs... to much power... .

How are you finding the turbine - worth the investment?... The 1kw sounds like a good option as well...  what amps does that max out at (what amps is your max on yours).  If only an Infinisolar type wind controller was around... so you could skip the batteries and drive the load directly? 

 

A graph would be nice again

 

 

todays data.html

Thanks Mike!

10 hours ago, Mike said:

this morning i woke up to batteries sitting at 55v and now at 8.50 they be full at 58v, what a waste...need more batteries...nope need to figure out how to send once they full to the geyser element

HI MIke try one of these. 

http://www.ebay.com/itm/271832274268?_trksid=p2057872.m570.l5999&_trkparms=gh1g%3DI271832274268.N36.S1.R2.TR5

 

Will work well. 10A max current though?

1 hour ago, Mark said:

Will work well. 10A max current though?

10A is over 2000W  so should switch a 2kW geyser element.

 

16 minutes ago, Chris Hobson said:

10A is over 2000W  so should switch a 2kW geyser element.

 

He will have to replace the standard element then because most 150l have a 3kW element and 200l 4kW as standard