Chicken wire isn’t predator proof either😅

Wena gringo, gracias.

I only have a small solar panel for proof of concept purposes. Here in Victoria Canada, I can solar cook too, because we get the Sun. (steaming soil, boiling weeds, dehydrating herbs). I "invented" an airlift pump-waterwheel-capstan drive as one method to rotate it. (saw a video about capstan drives in robots) No need for actuators or motors. Anyway, it works! So looking at your setup, if you can rope around the outside of your rotating stand, and attach your motor to a capstan drive instead, you can easily rotate it way more evenly. You probably need to use good climbing rope or sailboat rope for the capstan, but I bet everything will work way better, and it will be a lot more steady in the big winds. I'm originally from a farm near Rathvilly, Co. Carlow

Arkadaşım dilinizi iyi bilmiyorum fakat anladığım kadarıyla inverterin fan sesinin çok fazla çıkmasından şikayetçisiniz. Buna benzer sorun benim 24volt inverterimde vardı. Fan’ın kablosuna gerilim düşürücü regülatör bağladım ve artık yarı hızda çalışıyor. Hem soğutmaya devam ediyor hem de çok az ses çıkıyor. Ürünün garantisi bittikten sonra bunu yapmanızı tavsiye ederim. Yada ben garantiyi bekleyemem derseniz şimdide yapabilirsiniz😊

Love it ! But does it get damaged if it comes in contact with rain ?

Very impressive ,how you use the basic technique to improve on your original designs , including your generator carriage to move to the out of round drive wheel , Top marks in my opinion and the education you have learned is beyond text books. Keep Strong and vertical.

Hey Kilkenny, you did a video explaining how dc and ac electricity runs down a wire cable, went and brought the cheapest 2.5mm to find all solid core wire and have now found all my wind turbine cables have black coated wires inside the conduit, it this burnt or corroded ? is it a good swop from wound wire to solid core for the windturbine ? Thanks Henry

Thank you very much man, exactly what I was looking for

Does your system hold that ~2.5 volt per cell absorption voltage all day after it is reached? Or does it step down to a float voltage eventually? Those are AGM batteries? Is the voltage compensated for battery temperature? Hope you don’t mind all of the questions. I’ve recently bought a motor coach and have installed a Victron inverter charger to both charge the battery and allow the use of some AC power without the need for running the generator set. I’ve not yet decided on a battery, though I’ve always had a fondness for FLA, which is why I watched your video when I saw it. Am considering 6 large individual (as in 2 volt) cells. Everything else in the coach is 12 volt, so I’m sticking with that voltage for the battery. Lastly, I would not think that the required battery charging voltage would change based on other loads on the system. The generator voltage regulator should maintain the correct battery voltage, even as other system load changes. Maybe I misunderstood that part of the video. Couldn’t agree more about the majority of “information” found on much of the net. I like to say that we are living solidly in The Misinformation Era.

All makes good sense. Most of my experience with lead-acid batteries is for standby applications for communication equipment where a rapid charge isn’t really required, yet manufacturers of some equipment, particularly UPS systems try to be too clever and they just cook the batteries every three years. One piece of (American) equipment actually has two ‘intelligent’ chargers in parallel, each of which has its own ideas about what it should be doing. For standby applications, just float a 12V battery at 13.8V with a charger current limited to 5 or 10A, no multi-stage charging required. They usually last 10 years+ like that. One customer has a diesel standby generator with a 10 year old battery floating at 13.8V, which still works fine. The manual lift pump lever is broken so it takes a good amount of cranking to prime the system after a filter change, which it still does with no sign of slowing down.

Those batteries are like toys for an off grid system. Get some traction batteries aka IFLA.

You are spot on in your reccomendations. there is a group of us that refurb traction batteries for home power use and equalise 24V system batteries to 30-32V. This restores the batteries to very good working condition. It does not happen overnight, sometimestakes months but it certainly does work. You are also spot on about the regurgitated ignorant crap on websites, particularly FB pages. People just repeat the same crap they read before and have no idea they are repeating complete misinformation.

I'm not sure if measuring the voltage is enough to figure out what the SOC of the battery

Very interesting

Very impressed mate looks good

Couldn't this have been prevented by putting a resistive load directly on the motors phase wires?

90 watts sounds about right. My 2 5.5kw draw that amount. Thats more than 2kw over a 24 hour period. Summer not a problem but winter its a huge draw if you living totally off grid. Only way round that is to switch off at night, it doesn't switch off totally as it goes into mmpt mode and will still accept charge from the panels. Your 13kw battery is now actually a 11kw. Running the whole house on DC with dc converters for phones laptop etc and smaller inveters for fridge washing machine and TV which you can turn off when not in use

Could you recommend the best turbine kit (including rectifier and charge controller) to hook up to a 48v eg4 battery bank with a solar charge controller and inverter already connected to the bank?

Excellent video and plenty of good ideas to help with my own project. I'm struggling to source the plastic washers and foam inserts. Any advice on this would be welcome.

Awesome very inspiring

what size pallet was used ? i see small ones and long ones

Just be a little wary if you reckon DC is a lot safer. It *can* be safer "like for like", but although it might take 75mA with DC before you are unable to let go, a typical installation like you have just set up, will probably be around 240v (20 panels @ 12v) and around 15A. If your hands are dry and you touch it with a finger, it will indeed "give you a little dart". If your hands are damp, it can be a different story. If you use larger panels which are more typically 35v - 40v with a 10A current rating, a string of 20 panels can be around 800v DC (the London Underground uses about + / - 600VDC and manages to kill pretty effectively if people play with the rails.) Not trying to be a smart arse (honest), but once you go above about 50V even with DC, I'd treat it with SOME caution. Once you are much above 100V, I'd start to treat it as you would mains (better to err on the right side). Once you are up around 300-400V, then not a bad idea to treat it as you would working on live three-phase. DC is not as hazardous to the heart BUT if you are in series with a few hundred volts DC at several AMPS, you will be burning your insides with a few thousand watts of heat. The heart might keep going but you will be burning away nerves, arteries and so on with terrifying efficiency. If you are bored, get a piece of raw meat (chicken breast ?) and see what happens if you give it a good solid connection (crocodile clip on each side) and then connect clips to a large solar array. It's a scary but fun way to cook food VERY quickly. (Hot dog sausages can explode, proper sausages cook completely in 10 - 20 seconds :) ) Really useful info though on fastening the clips. In England roof tiles are pretty common, but ours tend to have ridges and as I am pretty much useless when it comes to working with fragile stuff, I am hoping the metal bracket might fit into one of the "ridges". Grinding out a channel for me I think will mean lots of spare tiles will be needed :) Love the idea of being totally off grid - but alas with just a little terraced house, there isn't enough roof space to go much above about 2KW - though a few panels on the shed roof and workshop roof with little tiny micro-inverters are helpful. Once you are using 48vDC, it can be worth noting that 60v - 90v > 48v MPPT battery chargers can be found on ebay for about £30 - and with around 100A rating. This can mean that if you add an extra set of panels elsewhere (garden mount for example), and you just have a series parallel setup that keeps the voltage to between around 60v and 90v, then this can be used to ALSO charge the batteries. Inverter doesn't know about it - it just sees batteries with plenty of extra power in. Final comment, a DC isolator is not a bad plan, but they are not the same switch design as the cheaper AC isolators. If you have an AC connection and break it, the arc is usually pretty tiny - a millimetre or two is enough of a gap to work as a switch. With DC, you can get AWESOME plasma streams from just a couple of hundred volts - as in well over a centimeter if you break the connection while it is on load. So the DC isolators are dearer than the AC ones - but they have a MUCH bigger gap and usually a method of physically sticking an insulator between the contacts to quench the plasma.

What kind/brand of screws did you use? It isn’t clear in the video.

Parkside tools is da shit 😊 I have 3 impact drivers

How long have you been off grid?

Like the Vid (down in Australia here...) - where there have been some more recent Strict controls added for Self Installation...Basically - Quite hard to do it yourself now without contravining several new laws... Anyway that aside... Just a couple of comments...Actually one in particular. The Twin & Earth is NOT rated for External use, if you insist on using it, make sure to put it in Appropriate Weather rated conduit to put it in, otherwise it will suffer UV degredation, Animals will chew on it, and Moss & Lichen ensymzes (as well as animal faeces) can chew through it as well...Preferably use PVC conduit, which is typicaly Cheap as Chips, but where you should also 100% seal it at both ends to restrict any Moisture ingress, as moisture getting in will create a Dielectric effect, and the use of Twin and Earth doesn't help that, as there are air gaps in it, unlike the Sheethed DC cable, It's why the preference Actually is to use individual DC cables appropriate for the run which are seperated.

Never never water on top of the leafs

Great video!

Good to see it working! Is the wind turbine good at covering your winter gap when the solar goes right down?

Barrie trower is who you look for on KZbin. Hes a ex navy specialist

Just buy a house plant and watch itdie within months of being by wifi.

Wifi kills my plants 100%

Great, thanks

Very interesting video. The voltage test is fine, but the power under load test might be a bit pessimistic. The 700w label for the drill will be the input power so its output at optimal rpm would probably be 400 to 500 watts. Probably even less trying to drive that big load. Hence the drill smoke! Maybe the cure for efficiency losses is a heli 2.0 or 4.0 !😅

If you didn't have any solar at all, how many hours per day would the generator need to be running to keep the batteries topped up? thanks... (2 people in 1 bedroom garden chalet. saniflo loo, no washing machine, wood burner for heat)

Great video! Thank you!

Great video. I have two i1500s Up 3 years now. Generally only run them in the winter months. Bearings still smooth. Still on original slip rings. Fingers crossed for the winter coming. Did great last year. Was thinking of adding a third but tempted by hefy looking FltXny brand on Aliexpress.

if it makes 87v, then it should be convertible to 48v.

Great video! Do you know what is the difference between i1500 and i2000 except max output? Price is the same in here. Is there a good reason to buy with carbon blades? Maybe those are lighter so it will spin easier?

Thanks for the video. I most probably won't do the same design, but I feel just seeing it will help with future decisions about wind power.

Really good content here. Thank you for sharing.

I feel your pain. Mine had been up for a few hours when a storm blew in. My welding was worse than I thought and generator blew off the top of the pole. The impact broke the tail boom off and I found only part of one blade. I never found the rest of the blades.😮

Interesting what you said about the cost of batteries. I went over to LiFePo4 cells about a year ago and I’d never go back to FLA. I recently built a 15kWh battery for 1500 euros. With the falling prices of LFP cells I could today build the same thing for little more than 1000 euros. Winter was alway a challenge as there are not enough solar hours in the day to fully charge FLA batteries. This is not a problem with LFP batteries. There is no lengthy absorbe period and it doesn’t matter if the LFP battery is not fully charged for weeks on end.

I’ve the 1000W 24v version but I use a charge controller. It has a programmable V/I load table so I can limit the current produced by letting the voltage increase to around 45V.

Very interesting. Thanks for the video

So slip ring rated to 12v 60 amps now, if thats one wire 12v 30amp x 6 = 6000+watts ! thought i sore on an turkey website say the generator can reach 90-120 volts, should last a life time. So much fun ! tried lifting thoughs pannels with threaded bar and a drill ! stripped the threadeds in the middle of the bar ! didnt counter balance them wood was wet, longer nut would lift pannels better as well. inspired me to piant mine now.

Cheap is my favourite flavour

Our have made it through three harsh winters, came with coated wire and a split doors with nice latches, also came with wire to wrap around the poles and fence to secure it, and tatp was nice and thick. Those nails are for a wood base frame, not a product issue that is your issue. And yes it is the vevor brand. So you either their quality went way down or you just bought the cheapest you could because mine is 3 years old and have not had an issue. Off amazon.

Thier is something wrong with um, hot air should be pushed out the top, not pulled out threw the bottom, guessing they wanted to make cleaning fillers easyer, might be a case of a scoop outa the bottom, keepin it off the csbles and a bit of rectangler ducting, from the ground to filter, cause she does get wham, in my plastic shed

got lost in the song lol, but cool video