The latest upgrade to the cabin. The wind turbine has been installed. The weather is crazy warm here. -4 this morning. -7 last night when I got the turbine up. Which made it great for my hands, but this is January in the high Arctic. #CabinLife #Nunavut
The hope is that this will lessen the reliance on the generator during the dark season until solar can take over.
@NunavutBirder Where can I get one?
@donhawkins Therevsre plenty of outlets. I got mine at cabin depot. TD Solar has them as well.
@NunavutBirder that's so cool!
@NunavutBirder I am super curious to hear more about this
I've got really consistent wind here about 6 months or of the year but limited sun (I'm on the coast) and I've thought that a little windmill could be just the ticket
@sarae There’s a bit more info n other answers in the thread but if you need more just ask.
@NunavutBirder what power are you hoping to get from that?
@tinheadned It’s not a very windy spot so probably not much. I’m hoping to extend the time between running the generator. It’s a 48v turbine that is only going to the battery. I doubt we’ll be able to do away with using the generator during the dark season. And once the sun comes back in a little more than a month we likely won’t need either back up.
@NunavutBirder Ah, so it's a leisure battery top-up type thing?
Also, going back from Ottawa to the UK, it feels darker in the winter. But we still get 7.5h daylight!
@tinheadned We keep the power and heat on all the time. We get about 2.5/3 days with the battery and then run a tank full on the generator to charge it again. This will hopefully extend the time before we need to fire up the generator. And soon we won’t need either.
@NunavutBirder nice - just for my calibration, how much power is this turbine expected to generate? 50W peak? Can't quite tell the scale also, how high is it? Fun times in any case, I hope it helps!
@bert_hubert it’s an Air40, 48v. So at 5.5 m/s constantly you’d get 40 kW a month. But we will not see that. It’s 12 feet high.
@NunavutBirder that is bang on 50W! Well, 54W. Thanks!
@NunavutBirder, what is the power output of this turbine?
@rudolfsciemins At 5.5 m/s constantly it generates 40 kW a month. But we won’t see that.
@NunavutBirder Cool! Or, actually warm. It's much colder here in Ottawa. But I'm so curious to see how it performs in the high Arctic.
