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  • 23-11-2006 10:26am
    #1
    mjffey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 180 ✭✭


    a book about windturbines and I don't mean the high tech university level stuff. No. I need a kindergarten level book :D where it is all explained in very simple steps (i love pics ;) ) how I get the electricity from the windturbine to the sockets (220V) in my house.
    I know a need batteries and something to switch from low voltage to 220 but I want to know how exactly it works and what I have to do once I have my turbine.


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  • #2
    CJhaughey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,907 ✭✭✭✭CJhaughey


    Hugh Piggott has a good book with plenty of pics, just do a search for him and you should come up with the goods, I think it was called scoraig wind or something like that.


  • #3
    Lissavane
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 542 ✭✭✭Lissavane


    mjffey wrote:
    a book about windturbines and I don't mean the high tech university level stuff. No. I need a kindergarten level book :D where it is all explained in very simple steps (i love pics ;) ) how I get the electricity from the windturbine to the sockets (220V) in my house.
    I know a need batteries and something to switch from low voltage to 220 but I want to know how exactly it works and what I have to do once I have my turbine.

    You knowhat - you came to exactly the right place. By coincidence, there's a crowd called surfacepower who specialise in low tech non university level windpower and they tend to post right here in this very forum! They're based in the west of Ireland so, again coincidentally, they should be right on your doorstep. It must be karma.


  • #4
    mjffey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 180 ✭✭mjffey


    Thanks guys,

    I'll do a google for both.:)


  • #5
    Boggle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 964 ✭✭✭Boggle


    By coincidence, there's a crowd called surfacepower who specialise in low tech non university level windpower and they tend to post right here in this very forum!
    ...and who stay very quiet when someone points out that their systems tend to be overpriced and underspec'd... :rolleyes:

    There are several companies out there but few with what I honestly consider to be worse systems...

    (If you want to buy that stuff - shop around cos someone showed where their turbine can be bought much cheaper on boards. And I'm sure I can find solar panels cheaper in a heartbeat...)

    If anyone has any specific questions just ask and I'm sure someone (or me when I'm back on) will answer you directly.


  • #6
    2 stroke
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,921 ✭✭✭2 stroke


    Certainly their system sound more attractive when purchassed elsewhere. They are very quite when asked difficult questions.


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