How does honeywell wind turbine work

Search Query Submit Search. By Alan Brandon. Facebook Twitter Flipboard LinkedIn. The Honeywell Windgate wind turbine from EarthTronics measures less than 6 feet 1.

View 4 Images. The turbine can be installed on a house or business rooftop, wall or on a self-standing pole, so that power is generated where it is consumed.

Alan Brandon. Popular Stories. Load More. Sign in to post a comment. Please keep comments to less than words. No abusive material or spam will be published. Island Architect June 18, PM. It is amazing that people are finally getting it that wind power generators do not use propellers. They have to use resistors. Dead flat, highly polished stainless steel is best. They are finally beginning to replicate the studies by Bill Allison, the retired engineer from Ford, in the mid 80s are correct.

Bill found that the best way to do that was to remove two blades directly opposite from each other. The cone instantly disappeared. He found 10 blades to pull the most power. No need to pay extra for the shroud.

The problem back then was having a variable speed generator. Yes his fans would take off spinning like crazy in small breezes. And he used to get a kick laughing at the propellers desinged by NASA. What's more, he told us that while the WT should start generating power at about 3 mph, the initial juice goes just to power the system's inverter, which must be running before it supplies any AC power elsewhere. The true wind speed needed to start producing AC while the inverter is on is 6 mph, not far from the 7.

But having a thorough site analysis by a manufacturer-authorized installer, backed by your own research on websites such as the National Renewable Energy Laboratory , is vital. At the rate the WT is delivering power at our test site, it would take several millennia for the product to pay for itself in savings—not the 56 years it would take even with the 1, kWh quote we received.

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