Aug
28
2011
ReDriven 10Kw wind turbine at work
By Solar Expert
This video is showing that 3.5m/s to 5m/s wind speed can turn your meter backwards!!! So its feeding back to the grid so my local neighbours can use it too. I can’t imagine how much faster the meter will spin at 9 or 10m/s
Video Rating: 4 / 5
@fanbutton I know that, but I was wondering if that was enough to power an entire house, thanks!
@platinum243125 KW = KiloWatt = 1,000 watts. Remember, a kilo means 1,000 units or whatever, whether it be a kilometer, a kilogram, or a kilowatt. I hope this helps.
What you conveniently left out was the cost to you to purchase this hot commodity and its support equipment. I hear these things can run anywhere upwards of $300,000 each. Where’s the payoff?
@alexdrudigmail I don’t have a wind turbine so I don’t know. All I know is that I’ve read that my PV controller can also be used as a diversion controller for a wind turbine, i.e., it can operate in shunt mode whereby it connects a resistor to the source when the voltage gets too high because the source is generating more power than the load and batteries can absorb.
@ApolloWasReal Couldn’t the failsafe be just automatically turn the blades to idle angle?
So even the Amis can live without atom Energy! I say it, because the Amis continuously laugh about the German way to say good bye to the atom Energy!
10Kw? how much is that?
Thanks for the videos! I have a farm in Maine. We are burning in oil & electricity about $6000/year. I’m looking at alternatives. I see these people battling with PMA stuff & I just give up on that. I keep coming back to Redriven. Now that you have had it a couple of years, is it working out? Worth it? Do it again? Electricity (Hydro) is cheap in Ontario. I’m paying $0.15 kWh in Maine. What do you think your payoff time will be? Thanks. I need all the help I can get!
Hey two questions how tall is the tower and how much did it cost to get it installed?
@erik2be I have a PV system so I’m familiar with them. Some of the PV charge controllers used to reduce panel power production when you don’t have a load for it can also be programmed for use with wind turbines. You can’t just open-circuit the turbine like you can a PV panel because it could fly apart. Instead the controller connects a “diversion load”, usually an electric water heater element, to dissipate the excess wind power.
dude i dont know this windturbine, but usually even the tiny 400 w turbines have build fail safe
What do you use for a diversion load in case you lose your grid connection? When this happens in a PV system you simply disconnect the solar panels and there’s no harm done. A wind turbine running without load could overspeed and fly apart. Do you have some sort of resistive heating element into which you can dump the turbine output if necessary?
Nice turbine.
@coggy5 is it possible that uncle sam might issue tax incentives/credits for investing in one of these?