grindz145
1 MW
I'm amazed that you did all of that and pretty much stayed on your budget. WOW
Hi Harold. These inverters are 12 volt and they are not stackable like Dale's are with a network cable. I had to go the electric motor shop and get a phase synchronizer that is used to sync multiple generators and wire them up into that. With that thing I have 5 of them stacked in my house for 120 volt power.
I used to have 48 volt in the house but we bought a Sharp 1 kW solar array for 12 volt made up of 123 watt panels. So I pulled out my Xantrex XW6048, and having had previous experience with these Schumacher inverters, installed five of them (which gives me 10 kW instead of 6 kW) and switched the stators in my turbines to 12 volt.
This is the most wonderfully efficient system I have ever had. I got way more power than I can use most days and I even made a YouTube video of it running one day:
http://www.youtube.com/user/OlsonFarms#p/u/5/bszM86PzpAw
The 5 Schumacher inverters have proven to be about 8-9% more efficient in the DC->AC conversion than the Xantrex. I bought one of those 240 volt units like Dale has to run my water pump too, since it is 240 volt. Otherwise I do not need 240 volt power in the house.
I have not done anything with my radial generator lately - I have it wound and ran it on my test stand with AWG 18 windings. I was a little disappointed in the power efficiency of it, but I'm building a new turbine for it and I'm going to rewind it with AWG 13 and run it to see how it performs on a real turbine before I make any changes to it. I'm also building a turbine and steel lattice tower for the college campus in Rice Lake, WI so that has kept me busy most nights.
My regular email address is xxxxxxxxx so email me if you would like more info on those PSI-2000 inverters, or would like me to buy you one here and ship it to you. The regular price on them, like at Grainger, is around $375 and Farm & Fleet buys enough of them to offer them for (on sale I see) for $170 plus tax.
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Chris