ChrisGreaves
- Dec 29, 2020
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I have spent the past five days playing at assembling the PikaSola horizontal-axis wind turbine; carpentry for the base, 24” of 2” plastic drainpipe for an interim tower, and today is National Assemble The Lot day. The vanes are on the hub, the hub is on the tower which is guy-wired to the wooden base, and in theory, if I take it all outside AND the wind co-operates, I shall brew up a mug of tea later this afternoon.
In practice I have a question.
I have used (North American) 3-pin 120vAC mains power plugs and sockets to connect the three red wires from the turbine to the rectifier. I reason that I can use a 100ft extension cord to run the turbine output into my kitchen, and can measure, boil water etc and even charge up a car battery when the car battery arrives, all from within my kitchen. I plan on building a “bus” or service panel from the battery so that I can easily plug in any number of appliances at will. But right now there is no car battery to smooth out the load.
So, what happens if I don't wait for the car battery, but wire the red and black output wires (12vDC) from the converter directly to the immersion heater?
Let’s assume that we have our normal 40-60Km/hr breezes here in Bonavista, not the 160Km/hr blizzardcanes of last year. Let’s assume, too, that I keep an eye on the mug with the immersion heater and don’t let it boil dry.
(1) Is a wind gust likely to wreak havoc on my immersion heater? Or converter?
I am keen as anything to see this work, but I can wait a day or two for advice. Worst case for the immersion heater is that I will have to buy a replacement ($20cdn with taxes, shipping, custom, bribes etc)
(2) Am I correct in thinking that the car battery is going to act as a smoothing buffer (much as does a water reservoir) in terms of supplying 12vDC current?
My experience with 12vDC jugs is plugging them into the cigarette lighter in the car, but I have no idea if there was any extra circuitry behind that to stop the car battery form shorting out/discharging in the blink of an eye and the flash of a flame.
"Installing the first turbine" http://www.chrisgreaves.com//12vDC/InstallingTheFirstTurbine.htm
Thanks for any tips.
Chris
In practice I have a question.
I have used (North American) 3-pin 120vAC mains power plugs and sockets to connect the three red wires from the turbine to the rectifier. I reason that I can use a 100ft extension cord to run the turbine output into my kitchen, and can measure, boil water etc and even charge up a car battery when the car battery arrives, all from within my kitchen. I plan on building a “bus” or service panel from the battery so that I can easily plug in any number of appliances at will. But right now there is no car battery to smooth out the load.
So, what happens if I don't wait for the car battery, but wire the red and black output wires (12vDC) from the converter directly to the immersion heater?
Let’s assume that we have our normal 40-60Km/hr breezes here in Bonavista, not the 160Km/hr blizzardcanes of last year. Let’s assume, too, that I keep an eye on the mug with the immersion heater and don’t let it boil dry.
(1) Is a wind gust likely to wreak havoc on my immersion heater? Or converter?
I am keen as anything to see this work, but I can wait a day or two for advice. Worst case for the immersion heater is that I will have to buy a replacement ($20cdn with taxes, shipping, custom, bribes etc)
(2) Am I correct in thinking that the car battery is going to act as a smoothing buffer (much as does a water reservoir) in terms of supplying 12vDC current?
My experience with 12vDC jugs is plugging them into the cigarette lighter in the car, but I have no idea if there was any extra circuitry behind that to stop the car battery form shorting out/discharging in the blink of an eye and the flash of a flame.
"Installing the first turbine" http://www.chrisgreaves.com//12vDC/InstallingTheFirstTurbine.htm
Thanks for any tips.
Chris