Wind turbine help

[duncan99210]

I use semi flexible panels fixed directly to the deck (a screw at each corners does the trick). It’s somewhat more expensive than rigid panels but taken against the cost of a gantry......

 

[AntarcticPilot]

Thanks for all your comments folks... Yeah I am now erring towards the skip method of disposal ? I am however terrible at throwing anything away. my ideal would be to have wind and solar charge and think I will go with solar initially to see how it performs.

I really wanted to avoid having deck mounted solar panels for purposes of inefficiency due to shading of boom etc.

Looking at getting a gantry made was eye wateringly expensive.

I realize there are other options pushpit mount or single pole etc.

Anybody here have any cheap mounting solutions that have worked on their boats?

Thanks

I have a semi-flexible panel that I simply lash to the guard rails like a dodger. The vertical orientation is ok for UK latitudes and I can readily move it if the boat's orientation changes. No shadowing at all. Of course, that presumes that the boat is moored in a fixed orientation - it wouldn't work on a swinging mooring or under way, unless you were on a passage where you kept on the same course for long periods. It might work for a mooring where the current dominates the boat's orientation; in that case you simply accept that it won't generate much for half the time, which is fine if your aim is to ensure that your batteries are fully charged whenever you come to the boat.

 

[coopec]

I have a semi-flexible panel that I simply lash to the guard rails like a dodger. The vertical orientation is ok for UK latitudes and I can readily move it if the boat's orientation changes. No shadowing at all. Of course, that presumes that the boat is moored in a fixed orientation - it wouldn't work on a swinging mooring or under way, unless you were on a passage where you kept on the same course for long periods. It might work for a mooring where the current dominates the boat's orientation; in that case you simply accept that it won't generate much for half the time, which is fine if your aim is to ensure that your batteries are fully charged whenever you come to the boat.

That is worthwhile thinking about because my yacht is a ketch and I must of course keep the panels unshaded.

 

[Graham376]

Thanks for all your comments folks... Yeah I am now erring towards the skip method of disposal ?

Skip? Put it on ebay, you'll get a few quid for it and then we can answer the purchaser's questions about how it works

 

[coopec]

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