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Art_

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Joined: 22/10/2007
Location: Australia
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Posted: 03:51am 22 Oct 2007

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Hi Guys,
Well I'm new here, great site, and nice to see a lot of Australians here.
Great info on windmills here, as I was looking to expand my
solar installation:
http://www.freewebs.com/defxev/Inverter.htm
with a possible turbine since I've heard of it done for long
term camping near the beach.

It seems it might pay to stick with solar for this purpose though,
and spend the money on more PV panels, or am I mistaken?
I wouldn't call it a "mobile" installation once it has a
turbine with 2 metre rotor!
Art.

Cheers, Art.Edited by Art_ 2007-10-23

If not actually, then potentially.

Gizmo

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Posted: 11:09am 22 Oct 2007

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Hi Art

Welcome to the site.

For camping I dont think you could beat solar. A windmill just needs too much "stuff" to get it up and going, like the tower for a start.

But, if you ever get a caravan or camper van, then thats a different story. You could rig up a mast on the side/top of a van. It would have to fold down when traveling of course, so you could rig some some way to fold down/up the tower, attach a few guy wires to make it secure.

Glenn

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dwyer
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Joined: 19/09/2005
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Posted: 11:51am 22 Oct 2007

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Hi Art
Not bad ideas l like your your battery set with inverter that give me a thought that i have two 300 watts inverter cost me $59.00 each from ALDI store and will look around for batteries box or make one out of wood ply board or alloy sheet anyway welcome to this site

Dwyer the bushman

Art_

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Posted: 10:37pm 22 Oct 2007

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Thanks,
Maybe it just pays off for the person I heard about because
he camps on the beach, and there would be times of wind daily.

[quote]and will look around for batteries box [/quote]

Battery box is from Supercheap Auto, they come fitted with
terminals and basic LED bargraph voltmeter, or fitted with
nothing. They are made to fit a 13 plate 4x4 battery.
Cheers, Art.

If not actually, then potentially.

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