Wind turbines

[solarman216]

Originally Posted by jims-terrano

If you want free Solar Panels check out this link http://www.ashadegreener.co.uk/


However this wasn't the scheme that I used. My local council are offering Interest free loans for Clean Energy Sources, it's a charge held against your house and not payable until you sell the house. So I own the panels and I also get the income from the Feed In Tarif.

My system is a 1.5Kw with a Sunny Boy Inverter (http://www.brightgreenenergy.co.uk/s..._inverters.asp). The cable from the inverter goes through an isolation switch, then a generation meter and then it's wired into a spare slot in the consumer unit (fuse box). The excess energy flows back through the cables and into the street and joins the grid that way. The main meter doesn't turn backwards as people think. We also have two seperate remote meters. One of them is a Bluetooth link to the inverter. This one gives and stores the amount of electric made, can be exported to an Excel spreadsheet. We also have a N Power Samrt Meter which is a simple wireless device that tells you how much electric your house is currently using. You can enter your tarif details in to both meters so that you can get some idea of your bill.
The Feed In Tarif we are on is great, we get paid to use our own free electric and paid to sell our excess. The unit charge for what we buy in from the grid is the same as normal price so it's not loaded to cost more. Don't know how they do it and I aint too bothered.
The panels are predicted to pay for themselves in approx 6 to 7 years time.

Hope that answers some questions.
Jim

The bit I am interested in is how your inverter is syncronised with the grid ( the sunny boy is not registered as acceptable to back feed into the grid as far as I am aware, very few if any are), the problem is syncronisation, example take two 3 kw alternators and try and parallel them together for 6 kw, one will have its windings reshaped, I fitted £250000.00 worth of panels to a council project roof, in the residents lounge is a big panel showing how many kw hours per day and how much is being fed back in to the grid, but there is no sync system so it is lies, and it will take 30 years to pay for itself let alone make a profit, assuming no repairs needed, but two years after installation two of the 6 inverters went down, I was only involved in order to get 35 mtrs by 7 mtrs of panel flat (on a roof that had a dip of 6 inches in the middle, I used lasers to get all the brackets level, I think there is a lot of misleading information being punted about, and to determin the wheres and whatfors of your system I would need a lot more info, regards Rick

[jims-terrano]

Well I aint gonna get too deep with this. All I can say until I start getting my bills from the energy company is that all the signs are good so far. It makes me and my Mrs happy, they've got a long warranty, we don't plan on moving for a long time and when we do finally sell it'll be a good selling point.

Back on subject, I've noticed a few single Wind Turbines springing up in my area. One of em was spinning backwards yesterday, it was facing out of the wind and the blades wasn't half bending.


Jim

[Toolbox]

Originally Posted by jims-terrano

Any chance of getting an old one, I could mount an aerial on top too

Jim

They say they are worn out, but still apparently ok to sell , I think they are heading to Pakistan

[solarman216]

Originally Posted by jims-terrano

Well I aint gonna get too deep with this. All I can say until I start getting my bills from the energy company is that all the signs are good so far. It makes me and my Mrs happy, they've got a long warranty, we don't plan on moving for a long time and when we do finally sell it'll be a good selling point.

Back on subject, I've noticed a few single Wind Turbines springing up in my area. One of em was spinning backwards yesterday, it was facing out of the wind and the blades wasn't half bending.


Jim

All I can say is that I hope that you have not been conned, I really mean that, but deep down I know you have, I hope I am proved wrong, Rick

[(RIP) PLANK]

Originally Posted by willow

We have to do something to get energy for the future.
If we all just cut down on our need of energy that would help

Well said that Lady! I use next to no power my biggest impact on the earth is diesel. everyone seems to want do much these days don't they?

[makeitfit]

Originally Posted by PLANK

Well said that Lady! I use next to no power my biggest impact on the earth is diesel. everyone seems to want do much these days don't they?

Too right
Too many energy wasters

[iandouglas]

1mile away from us they have erected 5 w/ts. 125 m high 2nd highest in world.
the locals fought against them, but lost
They look very impressive and produce 9.5kw between them.
had a look on u tube and there is quite a lot of horror story`s.
has anyone else any experience of them.
:d oh

SORRY GUYS SHOULD HAVE BEEN 9.5 MW.
enough to power 5k homes.

[zippy656]

Originally Posted by PLANK

Well said that Lady! I use next to no power my biggest impact on the earth is diesel. everyone seems to want do much these days don't they?

swop to cooking oil... use even less then

[(RIP) PLANK]

Originally Posted by zippy656

swop to cooking oil... use even less then

i'm scared