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| Guests Guest  Joined: 01/10/2003 Location: Posts: 52 |
Hi Mr. Littleford, 10 April 04 Your site is very nice, I especially like the precisely cut parts and exacting instructions. However, when it comes to be asked for comments, I can offer my little part and hope you won't mind. I think, your time and efforts put into the design and testing works, do worth the cost of the kits. But reality is Glenn, I think the cost is too high for what output it produces. People won't mind paying a cost even twice that much or more only when it is a very usable higher output unit. For those who just like to experiment and not minding the lower output, they will not like to pay your cost and still had to scouge around for additional parts to make it work. If I am not wrong, then perhaps it would have more value if all the precision-cut parts were applied on a larger unit, say, some 1000 watters or larger. Good day, Harry Luubovv. |
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| Guests Guest Joined: 01/10/2003 Location: Posts: 52 |
I really agree that the workmanship looks to be really super quality. Your website, too is really nice and clean. With that kind of precision work you might easily make a machine of 1kW, too. You might try making a bigger alt by yourself or just putting 3 F&P on the same axle. Or does F&P need too much RPM for being usable with bigger blades? - Hannu |
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Storm Regular Member  Joined: 12/09/2005 Location: AustraliaPosts: 43 |
Thats the idea, these are the begining of the possibilities available using these gennys, limited only by your immagination, tripple rotors can be done its just no ones made one yet, four or five rotors potentially. If you want to pay more or cant wait or dont have the skills or cant lern or dont want to then by all means go buy a 1000w of the shelf kit but it will cost you a heck of a lot more! Good examples(200w@$500) http://www.oatleyelectronics.com/alternative_power.html Create-Belive-Achieve |
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| RossW Guru  Joined: 25/02/2006 Location: AustraliaPosts: 495 |
I suppose it all depends. I've not long moved into my new place. 880 square metres odd of
in-ground luxury - but with no option of grid connection. Alas, being
in the IT industry, and a family used to all the mod-cons, we need
power, and lots of it. One 20W lightbulb in the middle of the room just
wasn't going to cut it! So, we have the full, 24 hours/7 days 240V mains supply thanks to a
10KW inverter and battery bank, and a small car engine (converted to
run on LPG) coupled to a 1500 RPM, 10KW alternator which provides mains
when its running and charges the battery bank. A few solar panels helps
provide some additional input - at the moment, it's a modest array, and
it makes about 25% of our daily energy. Obviously that'll drop a lot
come winter - but fortunately, in winter we want more thermal energy
from the generator to heat the house. Being unconvinced about the quality of wind here (sure, we're on top
of a hill, but hard to tell what the real wind value is) - I didn't
want to buy a hugely expensive machine, only to find out we didn't have
enough wind to use it. On the other hand, running two businesses, building a house,
preparing our old place for sale, bringing up a family and trying to
stay sane, "tinkering" around with DIY windgens wasn't an option, and
certainly something that would only make 200W odd peak was quite
simply, not worth the effort. I bought a 3 phase, 3 metre dia, 1KW machine off e-bay for $1500
including shipping, which included the guys, the mast, all the mounting
hardware, anchors etc, delivered to my door. All I had to do was dig
some holes, pour some concrete and stand the bugger up. The prospect of trying to get a lump of timber, carve it to the required shape to make a prop, etc, just *isn't going to happen* "reasonable" prices for "useful" sized machines sounds like a recipe for lots of sales IMO. RossW |
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