bryan1
Well-Known Member
Hiya Guy's
Well I've been busy I'm finally on making up my fisher& paykel wind genny but it's not so urgent now as I have to wait until I can get the new shunt regulator Oatley's are bringing out and my new 3kw sinewave inverter won't be here until the end of the month. I recently got 30 - 6 volt 105 amp/hour agm batteries for $250 so these batteries will be the base behind the new power scheme for my shed. As I already have 8-65 watt solar panels hooked upto 2 - 12 volt 200 amp/hour wet cell batteries and a 1700 watt mod sinewave inverter which isn't much chop. Anyway I'll take 6 of those 65 watt panels for the new array and keep the other 2 for the wet cells and change the panels back to 12 volts. This way I can dedicate the new battery array to the more seroius stuff like running my lathes and mills and the wet cells can have a mundane life providing lights and a 12 volt power source.
Another project is using a 5hp briggs & stratton motor hooked up to an F&P and I'm going to see how much amps I can get before the magnet stator melts but it doesn't matter as I can get F&P motors cheap but the idea is at what rpm 1400 or 1600 will give over a kilowatt of power at 24 volts. My mate who is a pioneer with the F&P is willing to help in this project so it could prove fruitfull.
So here's a topic revelant to alternate energy and I love love some comments to come in as I'm totally reliant on R.E. and I would like this part of the forum to be more Alternate Energy rather than scams like sterion etc.
Cheers Bryan
Well I've been busy I'm finally on making up my fisher& paykel wind genny but it's not so urgent now as I have to wait until I can get the new shunt regulator Oatley's are bringing out and my new 3kw sinewave inverter won't be here until the end of the month. I recently got 30 - 6 volt 105 amp/hour agm batteries for $250 so these batteries will be the base behind the new power scheme for my shed. As I already have 8-65 watt solar panels hooked upto 2 - 12 volt 200 amp/hour wet cell batteries and a 1700 watt mod sinewave inverter which isn't much chop. Anyway I'll take 6 of those 65 watt panels for the new array and keep the other 2 for the wet cells and change the panels back to 12 volts. This way I can dedicate the new battery array to the more seroius stuff like running my lathes and mills and the wet cells can have a mundane life providing lights and a 12 volt power source.
Another project is using a 5hp briggs & stratton motor hooked up to an F&P and I'm going to see how much amps I can get before the magnet stator melts but it doesn't matter as I can get F&P motors cheap but the idea is at what rpm 1400 or 1600 will give over a kilowatt of power at 24 volts. My mate who is a pioneer with the F&P is willing to help in this project so it could prove fruitfull.
So here's a topic revelant to alternate energy and I love love some comments to come in as I'm totally reliant on R.E. and I would like this part of the forum to be more Alternate Energy rather than scams like sterion etc.
Cheers Bryan