@wkya08 Yes i believe the magnets are Neo. The best ampage ive seen is 13.8 but only for a moment in very high winds. The main problem i have is turbulence which swings it away from the wind before it has chance to realy pick up its heels. On normal days i only see 100ma to 3a which would take hundreds of hours to top up my battery bank if i didnt have panels as well. This is a very compact budget wind charger,but it needs a good flow of clean wind like you would get on a boat.
Yes idealy wind chargers need to be on a headland or stupidly high to give good results. The major drawback with these micro windchargers is that they need to thrash constantly to make consistant power. I have a 400w turbine now but still the same problems. Good product, bad location...
+Phil Hamerton Only a year too late but thanks. It does say in the description there are 4 screws and I said this a year ago in my reply to Jeff, but you tube seems to have removed the description.
Nice video,but it seems you left out 12 screws ! I bought a 913 yesterday and watched your video before assembly,then as I went to put on the nose cone I noticed 12 empty holes in the front,hang on I thought,I think Ill read the instructions!!! each blade has 4 screws not 2! no wonder you had a lot left over! You mite want to get in down and put them in,and update your video so other people don't make the same mistake. Regards Jeff
Thanks. Yes I did mention afterwards that I had a few spare screws. I should have mentioned there are 2 scews in the back and 2 in the front of the blades,thanks. I havent used this wind charger for two years now because of it's low performance but I do have other windcharger video's if you are interested including power readings. Although I have just looked at the video again and it most definately shows only 2 screw holes per blade. I had 3 or 4 extra nose cone screws supplied.
Yes the other screw holes are on the front,going in the other way, where the nose cone goes on.and they do supply 24 blade screws,or the other explanation could be,Marlec have changed it to 4 screws per blade on the recent models,looking at your vid again I cant see the holes in the front,so that's probably it! Shame you are getting a poor performance,mine is working great,only day one yet though,and it is very exposed to the wind.Regards Jeff
The location is the most important factor. Mine was getting to much turbulance from surrounding trees and houses, although the Rutland would spin all the time, even with no discernable breeze it never made more than a few milliamps, even in a storm it never realy picked up it's heels. The windcharger I now use needs a good breeze but chucks out whole amps all the time with highs of 50 during last weeks storms.
That is strange because mine is producing plenty of power! I live on a boat so its very important to me. For 3 years I had a Rutland 914i but it packed up in the recent storms! so I got a 913,and it seems to work better than the 914i! and charges in very light winds,where as the 914i needed the be humming before it did anything.Its running my laptop,fridge and lights right now and still the battery is topped up,so I'm very happy,mind you,there's a very good breeze out side,and I'm competently open to the wind. as you say, location location! What wind charger are you using now?
I am using a cheap copy of an Air Breeze at the moment.. It needs more wind than the Rutland but once it,s spinning it gives much higher power and isnt affected so much by turbulance. The Rutland never gave more than 20 amps in a storm but now I get up to 50 amps. I have said in my other video's that the Rutland isnt the problem but the location, the turbulance just swings the thing around in circles and never realy faced into the wind for more than a few seconds at a time. I have good power reading video.s of both chargers.
Good informative video, thanks fior sharing
@wkya08
Yes i believe the magnets are Neo. The best ampage ive seen is 13.8 but only for a moment in very high winds. The main problem i have is turbulence which swings it away from the wind before it has chance to realy pick up its heels. On normal days i only see 100ma to 3a which would take hundreds of hours to top up my battery bank if i didnt have panels as well. This is a very compact budget wind charger,but it needs a good flow of clean wind like you would get on a boat.
Yes idealy wind chargers need to be on a headland or stupidly high to give good results. The major drawback with these micro windchargers is that they need to thrash constantly to make consistant power. I have a 400w turbine now but still the same problems. Good product, bad location...
good video, thanks for posting, could you tell us what is the maximum power u got with it and also the magnets are neodymium?
Don't follow this video without reading the instructions! As Jeff says, 4 screws to each blade: 2 at the front and 2 at the back.
+Phil Hamerton Only a year too late but thanks. It does say in the description there are 4 screws and I said this a year ago in my reply to Jeff, but you tube seems to have removed the description.
Nice video,but it seems you left out 12 screws ! I bought a 913 yesterday and watched your video before assembly,then as I went to put on the nose cone I noticed 12 empty holes in the front,hang on I thought,I think Ill read the instructions!!! each blade has 4 screws not 2! no wonder you had a lot left over! You mite want to get in down and put them in,and update your video so other people don't make the same mistake. Regards Jeff
Thanks. Yes I did mention afterwards that I had a few spare screws. I should have mentioned there are 2 scews in the back and 2 in the front of the blades,thanks. I havent used this wind charger for two years now because of it's low performance but I do have other windcharger video's if you are interested including power readings. Although I have just looked at the video again and it most definately shows only 2 screw holes per blade. I had 3 or 4 extra nose cone screws supplied.
Yes the other screw holes are on the front,going in the other way, where the nose cone goes on.and they do supply 24 blade screws,or the other explanation could be,Marlec have changed it to 4 screws per blade on the recent models,looking at your vid again I cant see the holes in the front,so that's probably it! Shame you are getting a poor performance,mine is working great,only day one yet though,and it is very exposed to the wind.Regards Jeff
The location is the most important factor. Mine was getting to much turbulance from surrounding trees and houses, although the Rutland would spin all the time, even with no discernable breeze it never made more than a few milliamps, even in a storm it never realy picked up it's heels. The windcharger I now use needs a good breeze but chucks out whole amps all the time with highs of 50 during last weeks storms.
That is strange because mine is producing plenty of power! I live on a boat so its very important to me. For 3 years I had a Rutland 914i but it packed up in the recent storms! so I got a 913,and it seems to work better than the 914i! and charges in very light winds,where as the 914i needed the be humming before it did anything.Its running my laptop,fridge and lights right now and still the battery is topped up,so I'm very happy,mind you,there's a very good breeze out side,and I'm competently open to the wind. as you say, location location! What wind charger are you using now?
I am using a cheap copy of an Air Breeze at the moment.. It needs more wind than the Rutland but once it,s spinning it gives much higher power and isnt affected so much by turbulance. The Rutland never gave more than 20 amps in a storm but now I get up to 50 amps. I have said in my other video's that the Rutland isnt the problem but the location, the turbulance just swings the thing around in circles and never realy faced into the wind for more than a few seconds at a time. I have good power reading video.s of both chargers.