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Company creates wind turbine for RV use
Greg Gerber posted on November 14, 2008 11:35
MERRICK, N.Y. -- The future of affordable, renewable residential energy is wind. People will be amazed by the wind power they can harness for their home, RV or boat with the following wind generators and turbines.
Depending on the model, a small residential wind turbine with a rated capacity of 1.8 KW and a rotor of 12 feet has the ability to produce an estimated 400 KWh when the wind is breezing at a mere 12 mph. Wind generators and turbines are also designed to last, e.g. Southwest Wind provides estimates of 20 years on some of their products.
The Air-X builds upon what has made AIR the world’s No. 1 selling small wind turbine. The new technology used in the Air-X was only previously found in mega-watt-class wind turbines.
The AIR-X is an ideal product for the person that needs a little power for basic appliances such as TV, radio and a few lights.
"Our customers found this item to be most useful for applications such as alternate power for remote cabins, remote monitoring stations, telecommunication towers, and many more applications. The alternate power applications are endless," the company wrote in a press release.
The AIR-X uses a new microprocessor based technology that results in an increase in performance, battery charging capability, and reliability. Additionally, “flutter” noise from the machine has been reduced.
The controller allows for peak-power tracking of the wind by optimizing the alternator’s output on all points of the cubic curve and efficiently delivers the energy to the battery. The turbine’s smart controller allows it to actually control blade rotation speed thus eliminating the buzzing noise commonly found with most small wind turbines.
SOURCE: Earth Tech Products press release
Posted in: Supplier News
Good grief Charlie Brown, 12 foot diameter wind turbine blades!! Where are we as RVers going to place this that would not slice and dice our neighbors and kids!
Do these people actually have any common sense?
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I posted a few pictures of the Air-X wind turbine RV setup, including links to the product page with a demo video in the General RVing Issues section of the forums here. 
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capacity of 1.8 KW and a rotor of 12 feet has the ability to produce an estimated 400 KWh when the wind is breezing at a mere 12 mph.
A mere 12 MPH ! That is a pretty good breeze.
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I think its time to invent a small steam turbine to place in the fire ring to generate the juice. It would be more reliable. It could be fun, install a whistle to annoy the neighbors TOOOT.
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I bought one of these. It is still in the box waiting the day I live off the grid.
http://www.mikeswindmillshop.com/wgenerators.html
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i have a air-x set up max output is 400 watts ,they dont work that well unless you have a very windy place to put it and it takes more wind then you think to get any power at all from it.solar works much etter for me then wind,by the time you get done with a set up you could have a couple hunded watts of solar that works every day instead of waiting and waiting for enought wind to come along get it to turn fast enought to get any power from it.thats my opinion on wind power.i got plenty of wood where do i get a steam generator.
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New technology? maybe but we were in the Cg at Organ Pipe cactus national Park several (at least 5) years ago and a fellow in the next site had a wind turbine setup. It was on a sectional mast (flagpole-like) that he attached to the back end of his fifth wheel. As I recall the turbine was about 14X6 inches and the 3 blades were about 4 ft.
He claimed that in a light breeze ( about 5MPH that day) that he could run his micro wave and TV. Yes - he demo'd that for me. He had bought it at Quartzite that March.
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he was running the microwave off the batterys and inverter no way theres enought power for the small wind generator to operate a microwave on its own.tv maybe if it was spinning fast enought.it was just chargeing his battery bank.i messed around with my set up for several years added more and bigger blades for catching the wind it doesnt cut it here maybe if the wind blew steady at a good clip it would work much better instead of waiting for a wind storm to show up.you need to pick a area with steady wind over 7mph or more to realy get anything out of them to amount to anything,the higher you mount them the better.
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How much cost? I see alot of sail boats moored off shore down in the Keys with wind generators going. Their props are only about 3 feet diameters. I wonder what they cost?
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