Rednecktek
Solar Wizard
So I was thinking, at my cabin I have an old TV antenna up on the roof that does precisely nothing, not even FM radio. I spend 6+ months at a time away from the camp and I was thinking to myself,
"Myself, I wonder if you could throw a small turbine up there to help keep the batteries topped up while you're at sea." (You talk to yourself a lot when at sea )
Now, I don't regularly deal with wind, and I'm going to be revamping my whole camp to a Real Size solar array and controller and wiring and such. My plan now is to use a couple of 100w solar panels that I already have up there and re-use my MPPT controller in parallel with the new system just to keep the batteries topped up.
If you were to recommend a Fisher Price My First Wind Turbine kit, what would you say I should go with?
The system is based on 24v FLA batteries, 360Ah "on paper" capacity if that makes a difference.
I figure a couple hundred watts would be plenty and small, and it would need the don't-fry-the-batteries-controller with it, but I have lots of wire.
Ideas? Be prepared for a LOT of n00b questions.
"Myself, I wonder if you could throw a small turbine up there to help keep the batteries topped up while you're at sea." (You talk to yourself a lot when at sea )
Now, I don't regularly deal with wind, and I'm going to be revamping my whole camp to a Real Size solar array and controller and wiring and such. My plan now is to use a couple of 100w solar panels that I already have up there and re-use my MPPT controller in parallel with the new system just to keep the batteries topped up.
If you were to recommend a Fisher Price My First Wind Turbine kit, what would you say I should go with?
The system is based on 24v FLA batteries, 360Ah "on paper" capacity if that makes a difference.
I figure a couple hundred watts would be plenty and small, and it would need the don't-fry-the-batteries-controller with it, but I have lots of wire.
Ideas? Be prepared for a LOT of n00b questions.
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