Friday, November 29, 2013

Time to get that Wind tower up

This is what we came up with to lift the tower.
Two lifts, then add the bale of hay to give a way to slide up the tower.
We got as far as we could, then had to stop when we got to an extra large bump we couldn't climb over safely.
At this point, we could pull it by hand using the guy wires.
We then anchored them, basically these are our insurance policy:
And there's the final product, Wind and solar together!

2 comments:

EMok said...

I'm curious how much electric energy can the wind turbine plus the solar panel can generate for use?

Wayne & Dawn said...

The wind tower is rated for 1 kW, while the six 12v solar panels (130 watts each) should be capable of 390 watts (since they are wired as 3 pairs of 24v)