New Turbine Projects - 500watt to 9Kw wind generators

Upcoming projects to install a 500watt PMA style wind generator on the roof of the house with eventually having up to three or four of them but 1Kw each.
The last wind generator turbine project will be a 9.4Kw DC motor which I acquired a year ago capable of putting out about 48v and 280 short Amps at only 380 RPMs. This turbine will by itself generate more power in a day than I can use and thus able to be off grid and sell all the excess.

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[econewpower]

@gaypotter My water heater is solar but in winter it so overcast it doesn't work well so it works on spring through fall. Furnace is electric and we turn it way down and use electric space heaters which are 100% efficient, every bit helps.

[gaypotter]

@econewpower oofft well pumps and heating, yeh that makes sense. Do you have solar water/air heaters? they are close to 100% efficiency when pv solar is only about 17%!!

[econewpower]

@gaypotter My peak usage when the well pump and field pumps are running, the AC is on, etc can be as high as 7Kw an hour (a water heater uses 4.5Kw/hour when it is heating) - so my peak Kw/consumption is 7Kw but that doesn't mean we actually use 7Kw/per hour x 24 hours! My wind and solar is enough to being close to break even almost always and be offgrid when I want. I hope that makes better sense now.

[econewpower]

@gaypotter We average about 1,200Kw a month so that's 1200/30 = 40 Kw/day or 1.6 Kw and hour. The problem is that you forget that I can produce 7Kw/hr during peak hours, meaning the sun is shining bright and the wind is blowing faster than 20 mph - which almost never happens. I get an average of 6 hours of sunshine a day of which 2 hours are peak sunlight so the average is 3.5Kw for 6 hours = 21kw. The average wind is 12mph for 12 hours producing about 12Kw a day more.

[gaypotter]

@econewpower 5KW?!?!?! wwhooaaaa thats like 5x24 = 120kw hours a day!! in my house we use on avarage 7kwh a day!

[econewpower]

@gaypotter They are rated to produce 7Kw per hour, I can average about 5 Kw per hour (not per day).

[gaypotter]

@econewpower sorry to be a pain in the gonads, but can you tell me exactly how much are each of your wind turbines and solar panels rated to produce and how much do they actually produce (KW)? and do you mean 5Kw/hours a day yes?

[econewpower]

@gaypotter Yes, I do. Under ideal conditions (which never is) I can generate over 7Kw/hr from my wind and solar, I usually generate 2/3 of that or about 5Kw/hour, the rest I buy. There are months where me bill is close to zero but I only sell 1.6Kw of the total I can produce as that is the only section of power I have grid tied. The rest of the panels and the turbines go straight batteries, then to the inverters and then to the house and gets used up.

[gaypotter]

@econewpower why not? you have several wind turbines, do you really use all of that energy?!

[econewpower]

@gaypotter Not a penny.