Since the turbines are a new invention it'd hard for the inventor to predict life span with no timed field tests or existing modules operating. Life span would be based on the destructive effects of UV & heat on whatever plastic used & also based on how well the bearings are sealed against water & airborne dust/grit, the quality of the bearings & the type of bearing races as well. Friction coeficients of bearing lubricants & seals rubbing against the outer race & the inner race enter in. It the turbines just use a bushing set (at a buck a turbine roughly, that's possible!) which is merely lubed then they might not turn as freely, bushings won't last as long as ball bearing races. Does each turbine has a small generator on it or is the last turbine gearwheel the only one that's connected to the generator (for more efficiency, less friction, less cost)?? The web site gives practically no technical info...thinking about adding to it perhaps to break the secrecy?
Another thought, if you built a wind funnel in front of the turbines, that is, made up of 3 panels: 2 side panels + a top panel all connected together to make a wind concentrator. Mount this onto whatever the turbine module mounts. These panels would channel the wind as a concentrator..bottle necking it, squirting it at the module thus increasing the velocity for free (except the initial cost of the panels.) That's if the wind comes from one direction only, which is sometimes true for some locals such as beachside/lakeside homes but for others, not. SO..ya wanna directional capability, eh? OOOOK...
Mount the entire turbine framework "pod" on a sizable (car wheel roller bearing) pivoted turn table carosel (like a record player turntable). Install a hefty enough wind vane mast on the turntable center to keep the turntable & attached turbine pod pointed optimumly into the wind. On the perifery of that turntable affix your 3 wind concentrator vanes like a funnel so that this concentrator always faces the wind correctly as well. Where there's a will there's a way..."the answer my friend is blowin' in the wind..." as the song says.
Valdez - I like the concentrator idea! It probably has limits - at some point the wind deflects around the whole setup rather than funneling through. I suppose that could be modeled.
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If you already had solar panels on the roof would it make sense to add these and feed into the same inverter as the panels?
Also, how long do they last.
Since the turbines are a new invention it'd hard for the inventor to predict life span with no timed field tests or existing modules operating. Life span would be based on the destructive effects of UV & heat on whatever plastic used & also based on how well the bearings are sealed against water & airborne dust/grit, the quality of the bearings & the type of bearing races as well. Friction coeficients of bearing lubricants & seals rubbing against the outer race & the inner race enter in. It the turbines just use a bushing set (at a buck a turbine roughly, that's possible!) which is merely lubed then they might not turn as freely, bushings won't last as long as ball bearing races. Does each turbine has a small generator on it or is the last turbine gearwheel the only one that's connected to the generator (for more efficiency, less friction, less cost)?? The web site gives practically no technical info...thinking about adding to it perhaps to break the secrecy?
Another thought, if you built a wind funnel in front of the turbines, that is, made up of 3 panels: 2 side panels + a top panel all connected together to make a wind concentrator. Mount this onto whatever the turbine module mounts. These panels would channel the wind as a concentrator..bottle necking it, squirting it at the module thus increasing the velocity for free (except the initial cost of the panels.) That's if the wind comes from one direction only, which is sometimes true for some locals such as beachside/lakeside homes but for others, not. SO..ya wanna directional capability, eh? OOOOK...
Mount the entire turbine framework "pod" on a sizable (car wheel roller bearing) pivoted turn table carosel (like a record player turntable). Install a hefty enough wind vane mast on the turntable center to keep the turntable & attached turbine pod pointed optimumly into the wind. On the perifery of that turntable affix your 3 wind concentrator vanes like a funnel so that this concentrator always faces the wind correctly as well. Where there's a will there's a way..."the answer my friend is blowin' in the wind..." as the song says.
Valdez - I like the concentrator idea! It probably has limits - at some point the wind deflects around the whole setup rather than funneling through. I suppose that could be modeled.
Any ideas on using the same inverter.