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Wind Turbine Testimonials
And Other Intrigue
Hornet wind turbine testimonial - 9-23-2003
I am one very happy owner of your HT 2 wind
turbine. It flew through the hurricane Isabel flawlessly, as
did the SEA charge controller. This was the first opportunity
I have had to see it work in high wind conditions. I have only praise
for the design, function, and durability. It is a very quiet
turbine, a barely audible whispering hiss could be heard while
standing at the base of the mast and had no detectable vibration
of any kind. I do not have any testing equipment to give you
technical data. I did wire in an indicator to let me know when
the dump load was being powered. The turbine is on the short
mast as you have advised, with the 6 blade prop, wired into a
12 V DC battery bank, using the SEA charge controller per your
diagram. A no frills, basic, stock setup. The indicator went
off and on as the batteries were discharged and replenished.
This is a very neighbor friendly wind turbine,
its near silent operation makes it unobtrusive, I painted the
blade tips yellow, as is the body, hub and tail, making it resemble
a giant sunflower. Considering zoning limits, I classify it as
a lawn ornament. My concerns of neighbor complaints were needless,
all of them frequently stop by, look and marvel, waiting for
a breeze to start it turning and ask endless questions about
it.
I live just across the river from Washington,
DC. The hurricane here was bad, but could have been much worse.
They say a million people are without power throughout the region
and likely will be for days. I am enjoying adequate power needs
for my home. I have loaned out my portable and backup generators.
I want to take this opportunity to thank
you all for the service and courtesy I have experienced in the
email and telephone communications, and mostly for the first
class product you make. I wish now I had two of them. I am sure
in the near future I will be sending for another.
One thought I did have would be the use of
two or more battery banks, each connected with the SEA charge
controllers, using battery bank Two as the dump load for the
first, cascading the charging power and finally into a standard
dump load. I do not have the reliable wind for this arrangement
to adequately test but wonder if you have tried or considered
The microphone in
this video was placed only about 12" away from the blades
so you can clearly
"hear" the power and spin speed. At distance these
blades
are surprisingly
quiet and non-offensive to be around. Very neighbor friendly.
Dear qaz,
No question about this item, just wanted to let you know
a tornado came
through our place the blades held up great, Fantastic blades.
John
-steelh??d201
Subject: Please and thank you
Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2008 08:49:55 -0700 (PDT)
From: Dan and Sheila Seakers <dseaker?@yahoo.com>
To: inf?@oicu2.com, inf?@oicu2.com
I bought one of your 600 watt wind mills. Very pleased
and impressed, I want one of your voltage regulators, do you
have expatiated shipping? Please?
Last night I checked the out put of the wind generator
in what seemed to be a 35 mph wind. It was putting out 50 volts
at 20 amps! Need to calm that
baby down fast. Please let me know and I will pay with
paypal and again thanks!
Dan Gendron
I just want to brag about your blades and PMA, I live
here on a mountain top in Idaho, and had freezing temps. Then
came the high winds, the 12 volt
PMA maxed out over 75 volts and the blades held together with
wind gusts over 50 MPH. What a great product. I just need a controller
that won't
smoke with these high wind surges, what do you recommend?
Thanks Sonny
-ljdk07
aswhy????@eastlink.ca
andrew why????? wrote:
Hey qaz , yes I have a set of your 28" blades
which is why I have purchased more from you. I have spent the
last year doing R&D in my spare time on various products
from you and many other companies on line for small wind and
solar. I have a full time electrical company so my time is limited
to the winter months. Please understand that I am in no way trying
to infringe on your products or your business and the few sales
that I would do in the winter time would not even compare to
the volume you do. With that being said I hope we can keep the
communication between us now that I have your attention. The
29" blades that I purchased from the seller "hi_iq"
are: thinner and have a reverse blade tip pitched back the opposite
to the base hoping to get the blade to yield away from the tower
in higher winds but in fact interferes with the performance of
the blade. With your blades my machine starts at 9 mph and quickly
speeds up to a blur, with hi_iq's blades on my machine it doesn't
start to spin until 14 mph and just sort of "lolly gags
around" giving me no charge. I am using 10si Delco remy
alternators completely stripped and rebuit from scratch with
1" x 2" N50 magnets in my core which gives me huge
power potential but serious cogging issues for the blades to
overcome. My resources are limited and am still looking for a
cheap supplier of special would stators as I don"t have
a stator winder and angling my magnets to overcome the cogging
like yours is not an option with those big magnets jammed in
that little PMA. On another note I think you need to have a discussion
with the sellers that are using your pics of wind turbines to
sell theirs, I have noticed you have built up a good rep it would
be a shame to let other sellers destroy it by using your famous
pics. Anyway I could ramble all night, I have included a pic
of my machine, if you have any questions about anything contact
me and I hope to do a lot of business with you in the near future.
Thanks andrew????
Love these blades you were right, wow can they
turn on, im getting up to 40
volts out of my indiana general dv pm motor,there scarey sometimes,
im
putting it on youtube for all to see, thanks again
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Subject: Re: 1 kW Hornet 24 Volt, low 12V
Date: 06-17-06
Good afternoon Bob!
The Hornet I purchased is finally up & flying. I had concerns
with my neighbors regarding the visual aspect & possible
noise if and when the wind decides to blow over our area.
I recall describing my plans for the Hornet's ultimate use in
the Black Rock desert and eventually the windy mountain region
of Costa Rica.
At the moment it's being tested with a portable DC/AC power center.
On the first day of operation, two of our neighbors came over
( one of which I was certain would complain ) had nothing but
praise to share, as well some obvious envy! Others stopped by
to ask how well it produces power and what the costs were to
convert to AC. I'm very pleased with not only your easy build/install
instructions, but the true rugged nature of your design. Plus,
it's much quieter than I anticipated.
Thanks for providing such a great RE product line.
Mark Laucks
Seattle Washington
10 Blade
Custom - Spinning very fast with lots of extra torque to spare!
Custom 10
blade Hornet spinning very quickly in only a light breeze.
My Hornet wind turbine
loves those stormy winter wind days that we get up here weekly
during this time of year. Once it starts blowing it lasts for
several days. Winds are blowing at 110 MPH right now while I'm
writing you this letter. My HT12SC is taking it in stride but
my pole is deflecting backwards about 2 feet in between gusts so I am going
to add guy wires as soon as the weather settles down some. My
highest current reading was 120 amps going to my 12 volt configured
L16 / 14x battery bank. The Hornet is just making far to much
power for my controller to handle so I will have to disconnect
for now. Battery is reading 15V+ so the small 50 amp controller
just can't keep up with the amperage dump needed. My 1200 Watt
electric heater was running all night long on my power inverter
too. Still reading 15+ volts, way to high. It did give me a great
idea for heating my whole home and not using any propane during
my wind storms. Do you make any 5000 Watt diversion loads? People
in my wind area would buy them.
I have owned at least
one each of every popular wind turbine made in the past 8 years.
They are all destroyed now. What really surprises me most is
that your Hornet actually keeps making power during these tremendous
wind storms. Maybe you have found the secret to survivability
in your tough little design here. Since it stays ice free while
spinning it can't load up. Even when we had bad Ice-Storms the
Hornet blades were still spinning nice and clean. In the final
analysis it was the high wind speed protection designs of all
my other broken wind turbines that ironically was the major factor
to their own demise. Ice and snow combined with wicked winds
brought all my other wind turbines down in the end. I think you've
got a really smart concept going here in your Hornet design.
Keep it spinning all the time no matter what. It reminds me of
the spinning glass windows they use on Arctic ice breaker ships.
Spinning glass works extremely well. The rest of the ship can
be an icy mess but that little piece of spinning glass is always
clean no matter how bad things get.
Please send me two more
HT12SC units. Send me a Paypal bill to David????????42@Gmail.???
Many thanks Qaz for all
your help
Sincerely
David Houser
Subject:
Re: Item #6002150843 - Notification of an Instant Payment Received
fro mau2 (gelatinous@xxxxx.com)
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 01:13:34 GMT
From: "GWisWatching" <gelatinous@????.com>
To: inf?@oicu2.com
My wife and I liked the first "slow"
generator so much we wanted another one for the top of my ham
radio tower. If you could please be sure to send the tracking
number like last time. It helped since my wife was home that
day to receive the package.
The first generator is up and flying
at about 50 feet and it does live up to your description.
Thanks!
George
Subject: Hello, again, from Minnesota
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 11:43:49 -0500
From:"Pfeifer, Eric A., M.D." <Pfeifer.Eri?@mayo.edu>
To: "'infx@oicu2.com'" <infx@oicu2.com>
My hornet went up on 16 September 2004
and has not been taken down since.
It has survived 60 mph gusts, a cold
winter, snow, ice and sun,
and it's still collecting energy!
Nice machine!
Eric Pfeifer
Rochester, MN
Condor Vers. AirX on a virtually
windless day!
See the NEW
video "FRED'S TEST" Fred is a very happy customer!!!!!
The Hornet puts out a lot of volts!
Dan - (Tornado alley) - TX ..........................................
(Notice the wind damage to the TV antenna)
Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2008 08:33:34 -0700 (GMT)
Reply-To: ssbo????@????es.net
To: aeq@hughes.net
Hi,
In the last year I have purchased a set of wind turbine blades
and an
12v/1800w inverter from you. I am also currently bidding on one
of your
wind generators.
I love the wind turbine blades. We live at 7500 ft and
the AirX Marine that we have, which used to be almost useless,
now kicks
butt. Almost an impossible to believe improvement! Thanks you!!!
NICE HAWK LETTER 12-19-04
Subject:
Great Servise
Date:Sun, 19 Dec 2004 17:44:16 +0000
From"Terry Simpson" <gol*??ak@hotmail.com> ------------------------*??
to protect privacy
To: inxx@oicu2.com
Hello Bob,
I would just like to say how I appreciate Your great service,
and how your company stands by your products. I sent back my
PMA for warranty work and you took care of the problem and I
had it back flying in no time, Thank You.
I'm going to put another one on my pole as soon as you come out
with the new system for doing so.
As soon as I put my Hawk back into service a big storm hit us
with 60 to 80 mph winds, and it performed wonderful. There were
power outages in town, but not for me, I was the only one in
my area that had Chrismas lights going !!!!!!!
Thousands of Hornet's dot mountain tops all
over the world since our units really do well in high wind zones
too.
Hornet and Hawk has become the #1 wind turbine
of choice for most operators of remote radio repeater stations.
Subject: Do you have the specs for your standard round Hubs??
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 23:49:14 GMT
From: vt_21@hevanet.com
To: inxx@oicu2.com
CC: vt_21@hevanet.com
Hello,
I purchased a six blade set w/ round hub and mounting hardware
a
couple three months ago. They have been performing great....stood
up
to 50mph gusts and at one point had over an inch of ice built
up on
them from some freezing rain we had recently. I really did not
expect
them to handle that much abuse so well! Anyway...I'm getting
ready to
put up another wind machine and I need the dimensions of the
round hub
and its hole sizes and placement specs for a hub I'm building
for a
project generator. I could go up and take the blades off of my
currently running machine and get the measurements...but I'm
hoping I
won't have to do that. Basically, what it the hole size needed
for
your 59" blade sets....what is the spacing for the two holes
required
for each blade...and how far out from the center should I drill
my
holes? I looked for a diagram on your web page...but could not
find
it. THANKX AND LOOKING FORWARD TO YOUR REPLY!
Victor T.
Another Nice Looking Wind Farm - "Thanks
to all the people at Hornet Wind Turbines, Brandon Smith"5@v
The Photo says it
all
ne
JUST WANTED TO LET YOU KNOW I GOT WIND GENERATOR INSTALLED
LAST MONTH IN SOUTHERN COLORADO & IT WORKS GREAT. ON THE
NEXT VISIT I PLAN TO RAISE IT ABOUT 10' HIGHER. DIVERSION CONTROLLER
WORKS ALSO.
THANKS FOR THE GREAT PRODUCT.
ROLLAND
Dear qaz6??
Bob, these blades are awesome. I've started
installing a few PMAs, running
2 here at home, for outback and rural location applications in
Michigan.
I've been in the auto industry for 30 plus years and think I've
found my
second calling. Thanks for a great product. Future business with
you is a
given... Thanks Again!!!
Greetings from Vancouver Island BC Canada...I am a Re dealer
situated here on Vancouver Island. I
have
a recreational community close by that has banned AIR-X wind
generators due to the excessive noise they
produce. The area is situated in a valley ...in the
bottom of the valley lies a like,. which is surrounded by
cabins and cottages.
How does the Condor compare noise wise with respect to a AIR
X. I am aware that the power outputs would
be lower..but with a continual breeze...it all adds up.
I like the look of your product. Any help would be an asset.
regards
Harvey Sommerfeld
East Isle Power Ltd.
Parksville BC Canada
Xantrex Certified Dealer
from: fritzsutliff?@y????.??m
Hi! No doubt you've heard this many times
but these blades are fantastic!
installed them on a PMDC 90v Pacific Scientific @ 1750 rpm 1/8
hp..generating 12-16 vdc 1n nom 6-10 mph winds @6-9A! ...a perfect
and
ballanced compliment to our solar array through a Coleman 80A
solar/wind
divertion charge controller...Thank You! they're every thing
you said!!!
-?ugust124?
NICE HAWK LETTER 11-14-04
"I order a Hawk 12
volt a few months back and it works really well for us up here.
We live on a small island off of the cost of Alaska and man a
weather and repeater station. It blows between 30 to 68 MPH day
and night out here. This little Hawk turbine finally did what
my 10,000 watts of solar panels could not do for me in the cloudy
and practically sunless northern winters of Alaska. We only run
the generator about half of the time now since we got the Hawk.
Its hard to believe that this little 20 lb. turbine can charge
my 2600 lb. battery in under 6 hours. This is a fantastic little
turbine you make. Never had to de-ice it once. Spins like a bat
out of Hell. I also treated the blades with silicon oil, a little
trick we northerner's use to keep windows clean and easy to de-ice.
I have tried other turbines over the years but they either broke
in the first few days or they went into self protection mode
from the extreme winds effectively stalling the blades and by
that time it was all over anyhow. The stalled blades picked up
so much snow and ice that the towers folded days later in the
gale force winds. You have a real winner here especially for
people in places like me. Thank your engineering team from me
personally. Can you sell me a can of that green varnish please
since I see some rust forming since I put it up unpainted (My
mistake).
Please put it on the same credit card number I faxed a few months
ago? Just ship it UPS Blue label to the same Anchorage address
if you please. It will find its way out here sooner or later.
My sincerest thanks go out to you for building this great little
turbine.
Larry Arronson"
Dear Bob:
I thought I would drop you a line and let you know about the turbine
I ordered from you, it was to replace a southwest wind power windseeker
503, because it continually trashed the blades, I have gone through
three of their sets of blades, and now they stopped making and
servicing them. As I was assembling the one I received from you
the windseeker was on the bench right next to it, and just for
the heck of it I thought your hub and blades might go on the windseeker,
which it did, I remounted the wind seeker with your hub and six
blades and never saw it do such a good job, for nine years I have
been hiding from this thing, and now I can stand right underneath
it, your advertisement on your web site is 100% truthful, your
blades turn with very little wind, and they withstand very high
winds, and make very little noise, and virtually no vibration.
I would recommend your blades to anybody that wishes to improve
their current Wind Chargers. I haven't had a chance to mount your
wind turbine yet as I am waiting on another set of blades. And
if anybody wants to know about your customer service, I would
highly recommend them to you, you always answer your e-mails and
are very helpful.
thank you
R.S.
Colo.
PMA Testimonials
I don't know if you remember me about 2 years ago I was asking
you questions about your PMA's. They are great, attached is a
photo of my engine setup that has over 5000 hours on them. I've
just completed a 48 volt system and now am looking to finding
out something about your HT48. At what wind speed does it start
producing 48 volt power - even 10 watts? I'm thinking of putting
two in series, isolating the ground or case in order to get them
to produce something at a low wind speed.
Thanks
Bill Miller
This "Weather Vein"
tail keeps my neighbors thinking its an ornament!
A "Weather Vein"
that makes power? Now that's a real tough one to classify!
We have
been in the alternative energy
it work in high wind conditions. I have only praise
for the design, function, and durability. It is a very quiet
turbine, a barely audible whispering hiss could be heard while
standing at the base of the mast and had no detectable vibration
of any kind. I do not have any testing equipment to give you
technical data. I did wire in an indicator to let me know when
the dump load was being powered. The turbine is on the short
mast as you have advised, with the 6 blade prop, wired into a
12 V DC battery bank, using the SEA charge controller per your
diagram. A no frills, basic, stock setup. The indicator went
off and on as the batteries were discharged and replenished.
Hey qaz , yes I have a set of your 28" blades
which is why I have purchased more from you. I have spent the
last year doing R&D in my spare time on various products
from you and many other companies on line for small wind and
solar. I have a full time electrical company so my time is limited
to the winter months. Please understand that I am in no way trying
to infringe on your products or your business and the few sales
that I would do in the winter time would not even compare to
the volume you do. With that being said I hope we can keep the
communication between us now that I have your attention. The
29" blades that I purchased from the seller "hi_iq"
are: thinner and have a reverse blade tip pitched back the opposite
to the base hoping to get the blade to yield away from the tower
in higher winds but in fact interferes with the performance of
the blade. With your blades my machine starts at 9 mph and quickly
speeds up to a blur, with hi_iq's blades on my machine it doesn't
start to spin until 14 mph and just sort of "lolly gags
around" giving me no charge. I am using 10si Delco remy
alternators completely stripped and rebuit from scratch with
1" x 2" N50 magnets in my core which gives me huge
power potential but serious cogging issues for the blades to
overcome. My resources are limited and am still looking for a
cheap supplier of special would stators as I don"t have
a stator winder and angling my magnets to overcome the cogging
like yours is not an option with those big magnets jammed in
that little PMA. On another note I think you need to have a discussion
with the sellers that are using your pics of wind turbines to
sell theirs, I have noticed you have built up a good rep it would
be a shame to let other sellers destroy it by using your famous
pics. Anyway I could ramble all night, I have included a pic
of my machine, if you have any questions about anything contact
me and I hope to do a lot of business with you in the near future.
- SEE MORE
backwards about 2 feet in between gusts so I am going
to add guy wires as soon as the weather settles down some. My
highest current reading was 120 amps going to my 12 volt configured
L16 / 14x battery bank. The Hornet is just making far to much
power for my controller to handle so I will have to disconnect
for now. Battery is reading 15V+ so the small 50 amp controller
just can't keep up with the amperage dump needed. My 1200 Watt
electric heater was running all night long on my power inverter
too. Still reading 15+ volts, way to high. It did give me a great
idea for heating my whole home and not using any propane during
my wind storms. Do you make any 5000 Watt diversion loads? People
in my wind area would buy them.
Subject: Hello, again, from Minnesota
See the NEW
video "FRED'S TEST" Fred is a very happy customer!!!!!
from: fritzsutliff?@y????.??m
PMA Testimonials
and CHECK OUT