Adding wind turbine to compliment existing Solar.

[Iliade]

At sea, I find my wind generator spends quite a lot of time spinning round and round, on the x axis! (not to self - replace metal stabiliser with a bigger carbon one.)

At anchor I don't find the turbine noise too distracting, but swmbo does; it evidently is a wind generator because the apparent wind drops a good couple of Beaufort when it is tied off...

 

[geem]

Is that your experience? It certainly strikes me that the batteries appear to charge up overnight.

I have a Duogen. 1.1m diameter. My friend had a Rutland 913. We both had meters installed on the wind turbines. He was super disappointed with the Rutland. Its output was woeful compared to what it was supposed to do. We found my Duogen closer to the declared output but by comparison to solar, small wind turbines are not worth it Watt/£ invested. My Duogen goes through bearings for fun. I will be removing it when I get back to the UK next month and sticking it on Ebay. 20 years ago, wind was popular. We see less and less wind turbines when we are cruising. Solar is so cheap.
Stick a meter on the Rutland and compare it to solar. You might be surprised.

 

[Bristolfashion]

I have a Duogen. 1.1m diameter. My friend had a Rutland 913. We both had meters installed on the wind turbines. He was super disappointed with the Rutland. Its output was woeful compared to what it was supposed to do. We found my Duogen closer to the declared output but by comparison to solar, small wind turbines are not worth it Watt/£ invested. My Duogen goes through bearings for fun. I will be removing it when I get back to the UK next month and sticking it on Ebay. 20 years ago, wind was popular. We see less and less wind turbines when we are cruising. Solar is so cheap.
Stick a meter on the Rutland and compare it to solar. You might be surprised.

I've got both which seems to work quite well - I will confess that the Rutland came with the boat which makes the £/W pretty good!

 

[geem]

I've got both which seems to work quite well - I will confess that the Rutland came with the boat which makes the £/W pretty good!

Unless the Rutland shades the solar. Then you shading effect is likely to lose more amps than the wind turbine produces

 

[Bristolfashion]

Unless the Rutland shades the solar. Then you shading effect is likely to lose more amps than the wind turbine produces

The Rutland is on the rear arch, the solar on the deck. No shading. Frankly, as we don't have a fridge, we have oodles of power.

 

[geem]

The Rutland is on the rear arch, the solar on the deck. No shading. Frankly, as we don't have a fridge, we have oodles of power.

Glad that works for you. We see yachts with a solar arch and a wind turbine on it. It's a pretty poor set up