Mounting My 350 Watt Wind Turbine

Chris came out to help me work on mounting the 350 watt wind turbine temporarily. I just wanted to start pulling in some power for now until I get the materials together to raise it up higher.

I simply took a 100 foot 10 gauge commercial grade extension cord and cut the ends off. This wire was on sale so I paid less for this than if I had purchased wire by the foot.

Another advantage is that this wire has a UV coating on it and it is very flexible. Both are great points for wind turbine wires.

I have a 20 foot long pipe that I simply slid the wind turbine shaft into. This fits nicely.

Chris helped me get the wind turbine pole lifted up. I was up on top of the tower base while he lifted it up to me. Then together we got the pole in place.

We used four C clamps to hold the pipe to the wind turbine tower base.

Then I ran the wires over to my solar panel wires and tied it into an unused wire there which runs into my tiny home already. I used a common ground with the solar panels and an unused wire for the positive from the wind turbine.

Inside my tiny house I used a diode on the positive wire and tied that into my forklift battery directly. The ground wire is already connected to the common ground inside my tiny house through the solar charge controller and solar forklift battery bank.

I am looking for a wind charge controller with a digital display so I can keep track of the wind turbine power output.

For now though the wind turbine will not harm my huge 750 AH solar forklift battery bank as it runs. I also have a dump load I am connecting which will burn off any excess power if needed.

I do plan to raise the wind turbine up even higher soon. For this I will need to add some reinforcements on the tower base and assemble the HAM radio tower that my friend Neil brought over.

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