Trinity Ecopower LLC

Well... I haven't really had a lot of time to work on anything new lately. Life kinda gets in the way at times.

Since I live in what is considered the "wilderness", (Out in the open prairie land), a lot more work is involved in maintaining a home, job, vehicle and so on. So most of my power research development has been just on the existing system that I power my cabin with.

My higher-powered wind turbine has twice, burned up the stator windings, because apparently six blades and the winds here are just too much for the alternator.

So, I removed three blades, effectively limiting the actual power that the wind can provide. Even then, the winds still had a tendency to over-charge the batteries.

Voltage regulation would either cut out the turbine entirely, or load it down and make all that magic smoke, that everything runs on, out. So I got a little creative.

between the wind turbine output and the batteries, I stuck a 300 Watt halogen lamp in series to limit the current. When the wind is blowing, it lit up the porch as if it were plugged into the grid...

Yesterday, I changed it to a 500 Watt lamp and actually got to watch it in action as a thunderstorm blew through. The 500 Watt lamp lit up the porch too! It also doubled (almost) the charge current to the batteries.

Now I think I will build a cascading circuit, which will connect and disconnect the lamps to achieve different charge currents, depending on the actual battery condition.