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Posted by Rich Parker on February 08, 2008, 04:10:32 PM

Thank you John.

I do expect all to go well. I did not conduct any torque or drag tests but they have a working windmaster on the roof of their shop and it was connected to the battery through the regulator, charge controller,etc and was spinning freely most of the time I was there. And since their office in the shop runs solely from the wind generator system I can only assume that the charging load was present during several hours while I was there. I can add that during a good wind it spins so fast you can't see the props!

But the important point for me, after reading these posts from people who said they couldn't get a battery to charge was to see that it could. And someone said they had done the drill press test without success.

Also, they are offering 3 different prop sizes that I guess are to address any situation.

Rich

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Posted by John B on March 13, 2008, 11:07:43 AM

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Rich,

I see your website is still awaiting upload. Have you received the WindMaster from Freetricity yet and can you let us know how it is working for you?

John

Posted by Troy Amason on March 17, 2008, 07:55:16 AM

Re: Freetricity.com (Reply #193)

Hey John last weekend was the big turbine challenge out in California so maybe they are all busy out there.

Posted by Rich Parker on May 06, 2008, 02:12:08 PM

Re: Freetricity.com My Results are Two Thumbs Up! (Reply #194)

Quote from: john bodden on March 13, 2008, 11:07:43 AM

Rich,

I see your website is still awaiting upload. Have you received the WindMaster from Freetricity yet and can you let us know how it is working for you?

John

John,

I thought I'd wait until I had my system up and running for 30 days before responding.

I received my 24 volt high wind system. Installed it and after a couple of days decided the high wind version was not for me.

I returned it for the low wind version that I received at the end of March and that unit works much better for my location.

My system includes a 24 volt low wind WindMaster, 4 six volt Sears Die Hard golf cart deep cycle batteries, a Xantex C-35 charge controller, an Aims 24 volt pure sine wave inverter and a Gen Tran manual transfer switch.

I'm not in the windiest area (I get a regular afternoon wind for 4 - 5 hours) of the country but my results are as follows.

It takes on average 2 days in my low wind area to charge the batteries to full charge. Since the batteries are still new and have only been cycled about 20 times or so my full charge is reading about 12.56 volts not the 12.8 I expect after a few more battery charge/discharge cycles.

Once the batteries are charged I get about 1 full day of use into the circuits I have wired into my transfer switch.

I have monitored the device almost religiously since April 1st and I think it is an outstanding product. I have noticed a few things I don't really understand though.

When the battery and charger are in the bulk charge state the charge happens at a way faster rate than when they are in the middle or absorption stage.

Does anyone know why? Can I do something to speed this up?

In conclusion:

A) The WindMaster looked way better than when I visited Freetricity. Better manufacturing all round.

B) In my low wind area I get 1 full day use out of 2 days of charging time and I think that is outstanding.

My website is currently being developed and I will post pictures of my system ASAP!

The WindMaster is extremely well built performs better than I expected so I expect my distributorship will do great!

To quote my son "I'm totally stoked"!

Rich

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Posted by Rich Parker on February 08, 2008, 04:10:32 PM

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Posted by Rich Parker on May 06, 2008, 02:12:08 PM

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