Wind turbine

[Highlander]

Apart from the normal day to day things that we try to do for our preps, we have also tried to do at least one bigger job as and when we can afford to do so.

We have had the solar panels fitted for all things electrical, and the multi-fueled stove linked into the central heating and hot water, also linked into the oil as back up,.... and others

.... but we feel vulnerable,.. if the mains power goes off, then so does our solar panels, at the moment its more profitable to take the 43 pence tariff for each unit given to the grid, than it is to put the power into batteries...... we have the generator linked into the house main wiring, but that could also be expensive if the power was off for any length of time,...so we need something that is completely off grid

So our next project is to install a 1 kw wind turbine.

At the moment our heads are full of figures, and that usually means that we could do with some more solid ideas/suggestions/advice

We are not even sure what a 1kw turbine will do, but its not really a question of what it will do, but more of a statement that a 1kw is about all we could afford so we will work with what it produces

Anything related to the workings of a 1kw wind turbine will be very well received