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Dupa

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Posted: 12:50pm 14 Dec 2009

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Being a newbie and all, I thought I would post a pick of my wind gen controls. It�s been evolving since day one. We have a lot of power outages out here in the sticks so I have set it up as a storage/supplemental power. I use the big variac transformer as my back up battery charger should there be such a need. I have it wired into a homemade full wave bridge. You can see the black finned set just left of the fluke. The box with the green digital readout is my pickaxe chip programmed as a charge controller. The analog meter is my amp in amp out reading to the battery bank. Just to the left of the amp meter are the two bridges from the two GE Fanuc servo motors on the towers. The battery bank is from an electric fork lift. It was set up as 36v but pulled out all the 2v cells and re-wired for 12v. Next big upgrade is going to be a 240v inverter. Any input as to what to buy would be greatly appreciated.

On a side note the 1.5f cap I got for next to nothing on Craig�s list so I wired it in thinking it would help out a little regarding surges.

Also I have never been able to figure out what the amprage rating is on the 2v cells. They are Crown?.

Thanks in advance for any input regarding my set up.

I is a injenear

Gizmo

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Posted: 12:43am 16 Dec 2009

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Hi Dupa

Good looking setup. The supercap across the batteries is a good idea, if you have one you might as well use it. The CSIRO here in Australia has developed what they call the "SuperBattery", basically a lead acid battery with super capacitors built in, as part of the battery plates! Link.

My only concern is mounting so much gear above the batteries, if something falls off the wall or you drop a screwdriver, ZAP! Maybe a battery cover could be added.

Glenn

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Dupa

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Posted: 12:20pm 16 Dec 2009

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Thanks Gizmo
Your right. I should make a battery cover.
I have already smoked one of my screw drivers.

I is a injenear

cobo351
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Joined: 18/12/2009
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Posted: 03:33am 18 Dec 2009

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seems like i seen a set up just like that somewhere. lol.

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