Solar and Wind

[uksparks]

Hi,

I have a 4kW array on my roof, I was just thinking, can I hook a 1kW wind turbine into an inverter in the same way so that I get power from that during the dark hours too?

I wouldn't want to change anything in the house, it was just if it is possible to hook a wind turbine into an inverter to feed into the house.

 

[trev]

There's a site somewhere that you can put your postcode into to get an idea of what, if anything, you'll generate.
I found it when I was looking into getting MCS registered

 

[Beavstro]

Noable is the wind data site but it really is a very,very rough guide.

 

[Beavstro]

And I must agree, small turbines of that size I have seen and dealt with, aren't up to much. You'd have to take them down in high winds and if not, bye bye turbine!

 

[Silly Sausage]

Sounds like a lot of hot air to me.

 

[Gavin A]

domestic roof mounted wind turbines are commonly referred to as chocolate teapots.

I'll leave you to judge if you should procede further with this, unless you have a decent amount of land and can mounted the turbine well out of the turbulence caused by the house.

ps you'd need advance permission from the dno, as you already have filled your 16amp automatic allowance.

 

[Risteard]

ps you'd need advance permission from the dno, as you already have filled your 16amp automatic allowance.

Precisely what I was thinking.

 

[uksparks]

I think I'll give it a miss, it sounds like it might be a waste of money!

 

[GB.Kayak]

Well it's only an idea floating round in my head at present, I'll do a bit of research and monitoring of wind speed over the next month or so and see where it takes me,

I hve read bout the type of wind, I don't really even know what 5 knots or meters per second feels like.

Google the Beaufort scale, there are descriptions of observable effects of different 'bands' of wind strengths. Also take a look at the Meterological Office web local 5-day forecasts; there is usually a link to the observations of actual weather conditions at your nearest weather observation station. Usually this is your nearest major airfield, civilian or military. If you are close to that location then it will be a good indication of the wind speeds that you can expect, subject of course to variations due to local terrain and other features that affect the wind speed at your location.

 

[GB.Kayak]

Well it's only an idea floating round in my head at present, I'll do a bit of research and monitoring of wind speed over the next month or so and see where it takes me,

I hve read bout the type of wind, I don't really even know what 5 knots or meters per second feels like.

Google the Beaufort scale, there are descriptions of observable effects of different 'bands' of wind strengths. Also take a look at the Meterological Office web local 5-day forecasts; there is usually a link to the observations of actual weather conditions at your nearest weather observation station. Usually this is your nearest major airfield, civilian or military. If you are close to that location then it will be a good indication of the wind speeds that you can expect, subject of course to variations due to local terrain and other features that affect the wind speed at your location.