Wind Turbine Replacement

emandvee44

emandvee44

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We have had a disastrous history with the Air Breeze turbine.
Our first one bought 7 years ago burned out and was just in the guarantee period. We got a replacement from the suppliers, and that did not work, and never has. The symptons are well known, lots of noise, banging and sudden stop and nothing generated. The noise is so great that the turbine has to be permanently tethered.
An online search on various forums indicates that the problem is in the pcb inside the unit. A replacement pcb can be purchased for around €250 euros, but no guarantee of a fix.

I found this:
https://www.amazon.de/ECO-WORTHY-Wi...YYE/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&qid=1541758096&sr=8-7&

It looks exactly like the air breeze, but much cheaper. It also comes with a charge controller, although I do not know if I need that.

Our current set up has solar panels wired to a Fox 320 controller, then to the batteries. A fox MD1 monitor/controller is also fitted.
The wind turbine is wired directly through the stop /run switch and an ammeter, then to the batteries.

I am wondering if there is anything wrong with the current arrangement.

Any advice would be appreciated!

Thanks,

Michael.
 
emandvee44 said:
We have had a disastrous history with the Air Breeze turbine.
Our first one bought 7 years ago burned out and was just in the guarantee period. We got a replacement from the suppliers, and that did not work, and never has. The symptons are well known, lots of noise, banging and sudden stop and nothing generated. The noise is so great that the turbine has to be permanently tethered.
An online search on various forums indicates that the problem is in the pcb inside the unit. A replacement pcb can be purchased for around €250 euros, but no guarantee of a fix.

I found this:
https://www.amazon.de/ECO-WORTHY-Wi...YYE/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&qid=1541758096&sr=8-7&

It looks exactly like the air breeze, but much cheaper. It also comes with a charge controller, although I do not know if I need that.

Our current set up has solar panels wired to a Fox 320 controller, then to the batteries. A fox MD1 monitor/controller is also fitted.
The wind turbine is wired directly through the stop /run switch and an ammeter, then to the batteries.

I am wondering if there is anything wrong with the current arrangement.

Any advice would be appreciated!

Thanks,

Michael.
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The advertised model looks similar to my Air-X and has the same output at 400W. The Air-X preceded the Air Breeze that came out with only half the output, perhaps to reduce the rotational resistance for use in lighter winds and to include stiffer blades to stop the flutter effect that caused a noise that many complained about. I do know there were many complaints concerning the Air Breeze with faults that had not occurred with the earlier Air-X.

My unit is now about 15 years old and still working without ever having had a problem other than the plastic nose cone is now cracked and has a small hole in it. Its normal mode is with shorted output so it just silently windmills with winds over ca. 8 knots as I rarely need it. I now rely on solar and would junk the Air-X as soon as it developed a problem and would not consider replacing even though there are quite a few Chinese copies of the Air-X at very cheap prices, which your advertised example is one. I would also suggest you copy the two buyers' comments into Google Translate ...

I'm sorry that I cannot help you with advice about your current configuration.
 
emandvee44 said:
We have had a disastrous history with the Air Breeze turbine.
Our first one bought 7 years ago burned out and was just in the guarantee period. We got a replacement from the suppliers, and that did not work, and never has. The symptons are well known, lots of noise, banging and sudden stop and nothing generated. The noise is so great that the turbine has to be permanently tethered.
An online search on various forums indicates that the problem is in the pcb inside the unit. A replacement pcb can be purchased for around €250 euros, but no guarantee of a fix.

I found this:
https://www.amazon.de/ECO-WORTHY-Wi...YYE/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&qid=1541758096&sr=8-7&

It looks exactly like the air breeze, but much cheaper. It also comes with a charge controller, although I do not know if I need that.

Our current set up has solar panels wired to a Fox 320 controller, then to the batteries. A fox MD1 monitor/controller is also fitted.
The wind turbine is wired directly through the stop /run switch and an ammeter, then to the batteries.

I am wondering if there is anything wrong with the current arrangement.

Any advice would be appreciated!

Thanks,

Michael.
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If the solar is giving a surface charge voltage "reading" that the wind controller sees as fully charged batteries then you could be fooling the wind controller, if you wait til we are out next I can bring my meter around and check a few things?
 
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