You may well know the trials and tribulations we've had over the last 10 months since moving into our new Eco Friendly House, well after the addition of the 1kW Future Enegry Turbine and SMDO Generator we are 'almost' there with the full system !
We now have the Turbine though a Charge Controller to the batteries and the PV, although still through the Sunny Boy, is pumping a good load into the batteries as well.
The SDMO Generator is nice and quiet and at the moment we are building a shed around it to keep it out of the weather. We've had it on Autostart and along with the Sunny Island, it seems to be working a treat when needed.
The final thing is to get a 13A supply in that shed to power the LCD on the Genny and then we can leave it on Auto all the time and forget about our daily trips to check on the batteries !
After the problems we had with the Pellet Boiler, it appears that the reason it was burning the variable speed fan was because the Sunny Island allows frequencies up to 52 and down to 47, unfortunately the fan needed 'Grid' type power, so no more then 2% above 50, which is where the problem was. So we now have a UPS directly connected to the Boiler and that is set to +/- 0.1Hz so we've had no problems since that was installed. The boiler also has a relay so that if, for whatever reason, the frequency was outside the 2%, it cuts out to save more damage to the fan.
It will be interesting to see how the Turbine contributes to the power supply, we are not expecting miracles as we only got it to trickle charge the batteries and with the wind we get here, we are hoping, over the day, it will help.
So after 10 months in the house we are almost there, just a few issues with the actual house design but we will sort that out over the summer.
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