Air Breeze wind generator electrics (rewired)- working! - 2012

 Broke down and bought another Air Breeze wind generator (WG) on\off switch (like we had a choice) and this time got a on\off battery switch for the WG. Somewhere in the mix we also would like an AMP meter.

May 2012 - Marina Kona Kai Shelter Island San Diego, CA

In the off position.

 The Air Breeze wind generator (WG) is finally wired and we think working. We say we think because the wind died about five minutes after we got it going. It did give us a few minutes of whoosh before the wind died. That indicated that it would spin with the solar controller connected to the system.

 So what did we do?

We removed the WG from the battery bus and wired it directly to the batteries. This way it does not see the solar controller. The only negative (pun) is that the Link 2000  does not see it to measure the charge input.  It is bypassing the shunt.

 We wired the WG (after talking to tech support at http://www.altestore.com) to the batteries. To  the center two 6 volt batteries. We have our 4- 6 volt batteries wired in a series then parallel.  

So we wired the WG to the + and – on the center two batteries as there is no room on the outer two batteries, the studs are full. The studs each have two 4/0 cable on them which takes up all the room.

This is a tad bit less efficient than the wiring of choice, on the outside tow but we will never notice it. Besides this is just an auxiliary method of charging the batteries. Our solar panels exceeds all our needs so far.

 Now it could be the WG is still not working correctly as the controller may stop and go or work erratically but so far so good. The next time we get some wind the true test will show us if it is working or not.  I think a good video is in order here when the wind is up😊

The top emergency shut off switch is the WG one.

 Not a very good picture but they do have icon labels on the switch knobs to tell what they are for.

 The cables still need to be staked down.

We are doing some wiring clean up and organization now.

 So the WG is wired to the on\off nav station switch, then to a 50 AMP breaker and then to the emergency cut off (red) switch and then to the batteries.