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Andy Rhody
29th October 2012, 22:32
Got a 2000 watt grid tie system up about 3 week ago. Took me 13 months. Bought the mill on ebay from China, had a controller built, bought the Aurora 3 inverter from Rob and using 2 Walmart oil filled heaters in seris for a dump load.

Hit at least 3300 Watts tonight. My 1st real test. All running basically right tonight.

Click on below to see it furl.

http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e295/andy47bottles/th_Family030.jpg
Rob Beckers
30th October 2012, 07:18
Neat!
I'm keeping my fingers crossed for you (and any others with wind turbines in the path of this thing).

All the off-gridders in Prince Edward County (an island sticking into Lake Ontario) are going to get the storm passing right over them. Ralph Day, a frequent poster on these forums, is one of them. Looks like the storm center will move our way after that, the most likely track has it heading straight to Ottawa. By then the winds should be down to 35 mph, which is what we've been having since yesterday already. Not much rain yet, guess we'll see that start in earnest tomorrow.

-RoB-
Ralph Day
30th October 2012, 13:17
No big problem here. My wind production for October doubled at least from the amount registered on Oct 27th. Very sustained levels of wind, not a lot of gusts. The 10kw microFIT only put out between 2 and 3 kwhrs each day for the last few days, enough to buy a coffee if you don't go to Starbucks:eek:

Ralph

Ralph
Andy Rhody
30th October 2012, 21:18
My wind production for October doubled at least from the amount registered on Oct 27th.]

Exactly the same down here.
Rob Beckers
31st October 2012, 06:44
Andy, how's the situation where you are? That thing is moving very slowly. Did the winds die down? Turbine still in one piece?

What a mess on the east coast though. That's a lot of damage. Nothing there seems to have been constructed with an eye for high winds and storm surge...

-RoB-
Andy Rhody
31st October 2012, 22:44
Yes, turbine still in one piece and although we're still having that "tiny raindrop" type of hurricain rain, the winds are about average today or about 13 MPH. I'm ahappy man.