Comentarii la: My KISS Wind Generator – S-a OPRIT ROTIRE! (Casa de cărămidă Sailing #84)

De: David C

David C — Thu, 15 Sep 2022 05:06:38 +0000

Hey Rebecca and Michael so great to see a new Sailing Brickhouse update. Great job on the wind turbine repair. So great to see you both having a great time together and wishing you both the best. Cheers!

De: Dave Amies

Dave Amies — Thu, 15 Sep 2022 04:31:31 +0000

There's the "right" way to a job when your in a place where all the necessary parts are available affordably, then there's the "good enough" way to do the job when you're living in the real world For anyone complaining about electrical tape, try living in the real world. Heat shrink is nice when it's available, waterproof heat shrink (with glue/goo inside) is even better when it's available, but electrical tape is perfectly acceptable the rest of the time (I remember the bad old days, before heat shrink existed, and there were even more evil alternatives to plastic electrical tape)

De: Dave Palmer

Dave Palmer — Thu, 15 Sep 2022 04:11:52 +0000

Hey Michael totally agree with your methods with the sicka I use the same method with my windows on my old gal on her windows and not a leak in over 20 years .
Great video guys keep em coming

De: Scott .Wallace

Scott .Wallace — Thu, 15 Sep 2022 02:30:12 +0000

Nice, glad too see you kids are getting it done

De: dennis hively

dennis hively — Thu, 15 Sep 2022 01:58:15 +0000

Great to see you both , awesome repair job , thanks for sharing, safe travels

De: Reload 'n Charge!

Reload 'n Charge! — Wed, 14 Sep 2022 23:22:06 +0000

Well done! My quandary with my old Ampair 100 unit was….anchor close to the beach – no wind. Anchor a mile out – wind. But we always wanted to be close to the beaches/shore (poor inflatable/engine combo!). Thanks, Andrew

De: Gil Core

Gil Core — Wed, 14 Sep 2022 22:13:49 +0000

AS I said a long time ago, this is your channel now! Good job! Thank you.

De: Frank Abbey

Frank Abbey — Wed, 14 Sep 2022 20:52:10 +0000

Old corroded screws even with the worlds most horrible Phillips head can often be freed up with a sharp whack with a hammer on the end of the screwdriver.

De: 1Sean Bond

1Sean Bond — Wed, 14 Sep 2022 19:40:43 +0000

A excellent view thanks so very much for sharing this with us! Appreciate your efforts and quality Video's! Luv&Peace Rebecca Cheers from Sask Canada!⚘

De: SV Barry Duckworth

SV Barry Duckworth — Wed, 14 Sep 2022 16:56:33 +0000

This was a really cool video showing the magnet removal and replacement process on the KISS turbine. Moat other brands probably would not be repairable like that. Impressive. It's too bad you didn't have the right Phillips tip for your hand impact tool. I bought an extra expanded 10-piece set of impact tips for ours since we had destroyed some of the basic 4 that came with the tool. These impact tools are a life-saver and a labor-saver too. I've used them on the outboard even with socket wrenches on stubborn bolts on the lower unit and to get the flywheel off.

Wind turbines are neat but they are not nearly as maintenance-free as our solar panels. They do make power at night and on cloudy days though which is something solar panels just can't do. We have a Primus Air Breeze on our boat which we recently upgraded to from an ancient and anemic Rutland Windcharger that was so old they no longer made blades for it.

We love the quiet and poweful Air Breeze but you are right that it doesn't make more than a tiny fraction of an amp under 10kt even though it starts spinning at the slightest air movement. 0.04 amp is really not that useful but does show up on the meter at least. At 10kt it makes about 1A and then rises in a curve topping out around 20A at 20kt on our 12v system according to our cheap Chinesium shunt power meter I have installed for the turbine. Primus has charts on their website and we find they are pretty truthful when it comes to our 200w Air Breeze. They claim it tops out briefly at 250w at around 20kt then throttles down to 200w at higher winds to protect the turbine and we see that playing out on our meter.

This past spring I barely touched one blade on our turbine while sounding the bottom with a boat hook off the transom in a very shallow anchorage. Oops! It wasn't spinning very fast in light winds but that mistake still put a bit of a chip into one of the three fiberglass blades so we ordered a replacement set from eMarine. I didn't feel safe in the cockpit or on deck knowing there was a chip that could propagate into a crack that could cause instant catastrophic blade disassembly while operating over our heads. So we took the safe course to replace them as a set.

Unfortunately the Post office damaged all three new blades in shipment when they crushed the box somehow. It took a few weeks to get that first set and then a couple of months more for the second since everything is so hard to source these days. They were back -ordered for quite a long time. The new blades are installed now and the turbine has never been quieter. They must be improving them over time. We will have to be more careful now in the future with a boat hook or carrying anything on the aft deck that can reach up high enough to engage those dangerous spinning blades! If it had been blowing harder the boat hook could have shattered one of the blades and been very bad standing under it.