peterbringloe
New member
This will be of interest to those of us who have an Air X wind generator as well as to those who don't but have anchored next to us!
I met a cruiser recently who drew my attention to these replacement blades for the Air X. He had two Air Xs fitted to his catamaran (a F P Antigua 37'), each connected to 500amp hour battery bank. I went aboard on a windy day and the blades were very quiet. The wind generators were quite close to the cockpit and whilst obviously not completely silent the noise was a vast improvement on the standard blades. I think that with standard blades noise in the cockpit would be dreadful.
The blades are not cheap but not bad compared to a new set of standard blades. They are stiffer and have a very smooth blue finish. This guy was very much a wind generator devotee and had experimented with a variety of makes. He had even bought a new Air Breeze to compare but was not impressed (200 watts to the Air Xs 400). He is convinced that with these new blades the Air X is the best unit available - certainly for the Caribean.
Anyway, I was convinced also and plan to fit them next season. He was operating two fridges and two laptops and with the wind generators on all night the regulators had stopped the units by morning. We quite often have to switch ours off at night because the hatch in the forecabin acts like an ear trumpet. I'm hopeful that with the new blades we can leave it on all night.
Apologies if this has already been mentioned on the forum.
http://www.silentwindgenerator.com/index.php?language=en
I met a cruiser recently who drew my attention to these replacement blades for the Air X. He had two Air Xs fitted to his catamaran (a F P Antigua 37'), each connected to 500amp hour battery bank. I went aboard on a windy day and the blades were very quiet. The wind generators were quite close to the cockpit and whilst obviously not completely silent the noise was a vast improvement on the standard blades. I think that with standard blades noise in the cockpit would be dreadful.
The blades are not cheap but not bad compared to a new set of standard blades. They are stiffer and have a very smooth blue finish. This guy was very much a wind generator devotee and had experimented with a variety of makes. He had even bought a new Air Breeze to compare but was not impressed (200 watts to the Air Xs 400). He is convinced that with these new blades the Air X is the best unit available - certainly for the Caribean.
Anyway, I was convinced also and plan to fit them next season. He was operating two fridges and two laptops and with the wind generators on all night the regulators had stopped the units by morning. We quite often have to switch ours off at night because the hatch in the forecabin acts like an ear trumpet. I'm hopeful that with the new blades we can leave it on all night.
Apologies if this has already been mentioned on the forum.
http://www.silentwindgenerator.com/index.php?language=en