Wind Turbine Unbox and Design Overview

In this video we cover the two wind turbines we bought, un-box them and review the parts and plans around getting them installed.
We now have everything we need to install these, so I'm hoping our next trip up we will start on the installation of one or both Wind Turbines and get them going!
Here's the links to the turbines we are testing:
- Pikasola 400W Wind Turbine Generator - k7s.co/3d05k2n
- NINILADY 600w Vertical Wind Generator - k7s.co/2ZzD9UV
The PV Combiner Box mentioned in this video is:
- PolyEnergy PV Combiner - k7s.co/3d13ONm

[@harleyreaper5146]

Can't wait to see the one year review of your system. Currently I'm looking at getting that thing vertical as you.

[@SeamrógCreek]

Yes! I'm so excited for this, just need to get it prioritized! Thanks for watching

[@harleyreaper5146]

@@SeamrógCreek can I have a preview. For me it checks all the boxes. Should I get it?

[@rgarizonahomestead2729]

so far i like mine it meets my needs in the shop and has a wind break unit that works. i hope your system works as well and i will be looking forward to seeing up and running. take care and have a great day

[@SeamrógCreek]

Excellent its working for you, I saw you had one. I'll be sure to report on these and we can compare notes! Thanks for watching

[@edialbert8035]

@@SeamrógCreek , any updates on how these wind turbines did?

[@leandrosphotostudio]

Wind "brake" you mean?

[@edialbert8035]

Looking forward to an update on these turbines. My experience so far is not good, I'm still in the process of trying to get my money back. Very curious if the ones that you got are any better. The one I ordered was a 48V VAWT claiming 2Kw, but it couldn't even charge a 12V battery and the generator looks the same as yours. Looking forward to some updates.

[@SeamrógCreek]

Which one did you get? The Pikasola or the NiniLady? The PIkasola is certainly not as well built, but I haven't gotten either of this up yet. I did get all the parts I need to do the pole mount for the Vertical NiniLady, so I think I have everything to get that one going soon.

[@edialbert8035]

@@SeamrógCreek , the one I got is unbranded, but they all come from the same manufacturer as far as I know, only the branding and other small differences between them. The one I got is a Vertical Axis Wind Turbine (VAWT) and the generator unit is the same exact one that you where spinning in this video...

[@edialbert8035]

@@SeamrógCreek , how is it going with the turbine?

[@SeamrógCreek]

@@edialbert8035 I purchased the steel pole I'm going to mount it to, working through how to install it without having to use guy wires, not sure if that will be doable. I still haven't decided on a charge controller, I need to get that done and ordered. I'd guess I will attempt an install probably in early April? Thanks for checking in!

[@edialbert8035]

@@SeamrógCreek , that sounds good 👍for the charge controller I strongly recommend the Midnite Classic 150 , that can do wind, hydro and solar. Good luck 🍀 and keep us posted.

[@MySliceOfHeavenoutdoors]

very cool, looking forward to seeing you put them up

[@SeamrógCreek]

Can't wait, just need some descent weather!

[@outpostcamp]

This is great. Enjoying your channel - from Hells Canyon.

[@SeamrógCreek]

Thanks for watching!

[@offgridstruggles7504]

I dont see any video showing how to hook up the wind turbine to this system. I am wanting to do the same thing with my system so I can use the winds power at night and not use my batteries. Did I miss something or is there not a video for that part?

[@SeamrógCreek]

Unfortunately due to other priorities and family issues, we have not gotten back to that part of the installation. We have all the parts and everything to move forward. I was hoping to get back to it this fall!

[@user-bm6uc6ft3n]

Thank you for sharing.

[@bradkiefer777]

Good video. I have the same exact system set up. Curious how you connected to the victron system and batteries. Not finding that video. Thank you.

[@damaha5]

Hi there love what you are doing. When will you be connecting it all up? I’m particularly interested in how the wind is connected and what contribution it will make. Cheers David

[@SeamrógCreek]

Hey David, thanks for watching, and commenting! We had to change our priority order on things once we had the opportunity to build the new building, so I'm in the process of moving the Solar system over to that building. Once that's done, I will get back to the Wind Turbine project. We are close on the Solar side, probably another couple weekends of work to get it up and running. I'll try to put an update in the next video on the wind turbine stuff. Thanks!

[@damaha5]

Cheers for the reply, I have a couple of the same turbines coming and will be connecting it to a my solar and 48V LiFePo4 battery system so very keen to see how you get on. Will be waiting anxiously. Keep up the good work really enjoy your content (and lifestyle)

[@SeamrógCreek]

@@damaha5 Oh that's excellent. Let me know how it goes for you as well, be great to share/swap info on this part, the wind turbine portion is the most unknown part to me at this point. And not a huge amount of data out there on these small turbines. Thanks again for watching

[@mariowilliams1580]

Hi there, just wondering when you will upload the video of your wind turbines

[@Shallow-pockets-acres]

Nice video

[@robbyfisher9187]

Your still going to need two mppt apt controllers. The two small converters are to change ac to dc. You will still need a controller to start and stop and maybe divert XS Energy like to heating elements or to a hot water tank the way you utilize all energy instead of wasting it. You could simply hook up the diversion to a small heater for your shipping container I hope this information helps you I just don't want to overload your batteries and burned them out

[@fareefta]

Hi, I installed a vertical wind turbine which is 24v and 3KW. But it is generating a very low voltage below 7V and it can't charge battery. The turbine is 30 meter far from the controller. Can it be a cable issue ? What cable size is required to connect turbine and controller ?

[@SeamrógCreek]

The voltage generated will depend a lot on the speed the turbine is spinning. At its optimal speed if its only generating 7V its might have an issue with the generator. Have you measured the voltage directly at the turbine when its running? That will tell you if you wiring is the issue or if the problem is before that. To determine wire size it will depend on your configuration, and if you are using an MPPT, etc. Here's an article I used awhile back to understand the math for it, maybe that will help: forum.solar-electric.com/discussion/17404/3-phase-wind-turbine-wire-sizing Also the manufacturer or your Turbine should have a recommended wire sizing chart for the Turbine model you purchased.

[@leandrosphotostudio]

Hey, did you complete your wind generator ? I was curious to see your experience, want to take the plunge into trying myself also, but wanted to learn from your experience.

[@SeamrógCreek]

Unfortunately, not yet. We had a rough year last year, so we didn't get to focus on some projects we intended too in the late summer/early fall. This is high on my list, especially since we could have used the power augmentation to the system in Late December when we the weather was the worst. I fully intend to get back to this part this spring, and get at least one of these turbines online. I do think I'm going to get a higher end Charge controller then what came with it. I'm looking at these at the moment, but have not decided. www.hyenergy.com.cn/a/English/Off_grid_controller/20150902/418.html Let me know if you are doing something different or get to it before I do!

[@silverleapers]

I think the math on the turbines is not in your favour my friend. 5Kw being charged by those turbines will take a LONG time and a high wind. 5,000/100= 50 hrs. Assuming you only have 100w parasitic draw by the controller/inverter/wire and manage 200w/hr/day from both turbines combined; on a windy month. We'll soon see. Check out "Toys for Watts" channel if you haven't already. If you decide to reinvest in wind, check out HenryD and a FD4 (4m rotor) with controller. I think I'd make two dumploads (one each) and put them on tilt-able towers. The noise from them in the metal shipping container may make life less bearable inside if you attach them directly to the side. Braking long term is not good for the generator (it's magnetism that causes the braking), but tilting them down without a dumploaded brake in a high wind may damage them (braking at 90Kms/hr is a lot of heat for a second). I don't think you need more solar, but definitely more and better turbine power. These turbines without a dumpload like to catch on fire from what I see on youtube and via a buddy that almost burnt his cabin with one. We have 20Kw of storage, 7800w solar and an FD4 in one of the windy-est places in North America.

[@SeamrógCreek]

This is not my intention. The point of these small wind turbines is to augment the system, not to fully charge it at 5kw. These turbines only produce 300-800kw at most depending on their speed, so most likely a few hundred watts at best, due to their size. Augmentation is adding any "free" wattage at any time whether solar is available or not. I don't need wind to charge the whole system, just off-set usage at night or on low solar days. For sure, all turbines need dummy loads to handle excess power, those will be in place to prevent overloads, but they are just not shown in this video. We've changed a lot of stuff since this video was done, the turbines and solar aren't even on the container anymore. Thanks for watching and feedback, always appreciate other peoples inputs! And thanks for the reference to that other channel, I'll check it out!

[@silverleapers]

@@SeamrógCreek Can't wait to see what you get per month from them. Best of luck. LOVE your videos.

[@SeamrógCreek]

@@silverleapers Thank you! Glad you enjoy them, I love making them. Hopefully will have some more regular stuff this year, and starting later this month! The plan is to get to the Wind stuff early this year, I'm very excited to see what it can do. Thanks for watching!

[@lesjones7617]

Do you need a dump load for your brake switch?

[@SeamrógCreek]

Well, supposedly the NINILADY turbine has one built into it, and the other one does not. So I think for one of them I will, the other in theory should use its internal dump once the brake wiring is applied. I'm going to test this thoroughly soon as they are mounted.

[@lesjones7617]

@@SeamrógCreek well done all very interesting.

[@sanctuarylifestyle]

Great video, from the turbine charge controller are you connecting it directly to the batteries or through an Mppt ?

[@SeamrógCreek]

It will go through an MPPT that came with it. Its really small too, I can't wait to get it hooked up to see how it does.

[@sanctuarylifestyle]

@@SeamrógCreek looking forward to seeing the result. ;)

[@joelsvlogsshiimi4174]

@@SeamrógCreek I am very kin to see how this connection was made??

[@kimmogensen5390]

for the prize of those china turbines , you could have gotten 2 istabreeze i1500w 24v turbines , and they actually produce their rated power as long as you have them at about 6-7 meters and in fairly clean wind ,,,

[@SeamrógCreek]

They are about similarly priced it looks like, but thanks for the tip, I'm definitely going to check them out! This video was shot over a year ago, so things have changed somewhat. Definitely up for experimenting on multiple types!

[@illyavochaltin7782]

What is the status now?

[@SeamrógCreek]

Hey Illyavo, we had to change our order of doing things so we have not finished the installation here yet, as we needed to get the new building up while the price of lumber and materials were down. That building is close to being ready to install the Solar system on to. Once we do that the wind turbines are next. I would guess in another month or so I can get back to these. I wish I could sooner I'm really excited to get these running! Thanks for watching!

[@illyavochaltin7782]

@@SeamrógCreek Ok! I am looking forward to it!

[@joelsvlogsshiimi4174]

@@SeamrógCreek Hello, I would like to know if you have the video for the wind turbine installation??

[@windpowerandmore6310]

I don’t have to ever see that in the wind to know how well it will work. I hope you didn’t spend much money on that . Anything that you can lift with one hand is useless unless you’re looking at collecting micro watts . Even in high wind events that won’t produce hardly anything. If you’re going off grid and you have skills just build a Axial Flux . It’s the only way to have something that works or buy a turbine from Tony at hurricane wind power.

[@rickharold7884]

Oil stuff

[@silverleapers]

as in snake oil.