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| super windy |
Posted - 02/03/2008 : 00:01:31
Hi donnie, just wondering based on your experience and seeing the beewind and the future alternator, hard at work, if you had £150 where would you put your money in, what's the beewind 12v alternator like, there website doesn't show any output data or when it cut in, I'm a bit concerned on the future alternator and its bearings based on your experience, is the beewind a more solid built unit, or does it take alot of rpms to get a charge from it.
cheers any help or advice would be helpfull
keep up the good work
Super Windy |
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| donniedingle |
Posted - 03/03/2008 : 22:36:21
thanks super windy, but i only tell it like it is the good old fashioned honest way, my pal was round this morning when we spotted the frozen swivel on my beewind, well we retired to a nice cup of tea, when he says hows much was the white tornado thingy? (futurenergy unit) i tells him a real snip at 150.00, F****** ***, how much? well he rolls up his jacket and shows me his super dooper watch, with electronic calculator in built, huge frozen fingers on minut buttons produced sh** thats £21,428.00 a ton for that technology, thats more pound for £ than an all singing new top of the range John Deere tractor.......scarey eh.
donnie.
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| super windy |
Posted - 03/03/2008 : 19:55:25
cheers donnie i really liked your honest and frank approach to this mad hobby of ours, I guess you are in a area that if the turbine isn't built like a bullet, it will smoke, the tlg units seem solid, I'm going to buy the future energy generator to play with and in two years time, when I move back home (portugal), I'm seriously thinking of getting a tlg unit, has after speaking to an american friend who has one he reckons they are built to last.
cheers
super windy |
| donniedingle |
Posted - 02/03/2008 : 18:59:35
hi super windy,
firstly thank you for your video's great to see them working, if i had £150 to spend ? well i believe the futurenergy is the one to go for, just that i'm in such a windy location, did i get a rogue bearing in mine? time will tell once she is up again, though saying that, i did buy a pkt of 10 brgs, in my location reliability is the key, 100 miles to the nearest bearing dealer, over the years i learned no matter what ya buy service is paramount, and i means as regarding my tractors and lorries and my 4x4's, i keep a lot of spares for immediate use, and i class a wind turbine as no different. you could sell me the best tractor in the world, until it breaks down , (we have a daily fight against the weather up here) perhaps in the middle of sowing, and god help the mannie that sold it me...lol.
i have 2 chinese 200W units that are bomb proof, well i mean reliable, crude ,yes, but hey you don't stand admireing them, but for a location like yours superwindy youd have the council on your back in no time, they are noisey, rattle like anything, blades that crave attention, and big ugly brutes to look at but .........they keep going.
my beewind ....another expensive lesson, if you live in a hurricane area yes....they will produce these amazing quoted outputs, first time it burnt out i was told you need to buy a new unit, (no spares kept or needed) so i trawled the internet and found a really obliging firm in the usa, Bluewind power, and there led before me was all the similar specs for a converted AC Delco alternator, then i find you can get a stator to more or less suit your location, so i ordered spares and a rebuild kit, payed with pay pal and bingo, 4 days later postie has big box for donnie..lol. thats service for ya, and dam i got a good exchange rate to. since then i have now exhausted my supply of spares ....need to get more. it has the high speed plastic blades on it, wow are they fast, yes it needs them, but boy what a bloody racket they made, so hot tip number one, you cut 8" off a finally tuned piece of plastic...lol. still not a decent enough output, so i read you need more blades, once again hand in pocket and buy an 8 blades hub, and 2 extra blades. aye well a wee bit better, but nothing major. next i made a geared up one using the beewind and 8 blade hub, geared it 3 to 1 and used a toothed timing belt, great i thought, in the wind once it reached 30 amps it would stall , and not produce any more, even in gales. an idea is looming here, self governing units...lol. but on a pretty calm day they produce nothing, (not enough rpm's).
so back to the future eh .....lol.
i'm going to work it out with this futurenergy, and build my own setup around it, i'm going to use a disc brake to slow or stop it, and a 12V actuator to turn it from the gales. and this way i'n going to remove the thrust pressure completely from the pmg, if i was not totally reliant on wind power i'd have put the lot in the bin or sold on ebay as untested ....lol.. but its all one long learning curve, and i think one of your quotes says similar.
but i love reading this forum at the end of my working day and............there is more than enough brains and knowledge on here to design and build the rolls royce of all wind turbines, seriously, and look at the market out there, when we have to put up with over priced second hand units, ebay, and 100's of other snags with buying unsuitable equipment, they market is more or less supplied from china, in one guise or another, just they stick there own brand sticker on it, and made in britain ........my ass, more like assemled in britain.
no i'll stick out on this futurenergy, lets see if it will do 12 months at near max output in my conditions, and then donnie will be a happy mannie if it does ...lol.
maybe after last week and the blizzards today i should take £150.00 and go on a bender .....
regards donnie.
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