Air X Marine Wind Generator Problems

[alofns]

Windmill comes on but shuts off abruptly after a second or so. Batteries are below capacity and show the right voltage at the switch. It does work intermittently for a few minutes, sporadically.

I have to tie it off to keep it braked.

Appreciate any suggestions.

[neilpride]

Any red led light blinking when does it stop? From my memory they have a lot of faulty circuit board from factory in early models..

[alofns]

Originally Posted by neilpride

Any red led light blinking when does it stop? From my memory they have a lot of faulty circuit board from factory in early models..

There is a red light blinking. It seems to start up and then just stop. Very abruptly.

[neilpride]

The led lights up when the turbine starts to spin fast, that means it's charging, if the led starts blinking that means it's shorted, i imagine you have it connected without an external regulator?

What you can do is connect it directly to the battery bypassing the kill switch and any external regulator or dc meter, with the positive and negative disconnected it would have to spin fast without resistance, if you put the positive and negative together it shorts and stops, try it directly on the battery to see what happens, if it stops after a while with the led blinking, it may be that it has a fried diode, a bad connection right where the ground + - are connected to the turbine, or a bad battery.

You can also try to remove the blades and try by hand to spin the shaft, some resistance with the turbine wired to the battery is normal, to much and its shorted.

[Jim Cate]

Possibly could just be that the regulator adjustment is set way too low. This means that as soon as it spins up enough to raise the output voltage a bit the regulator shuts it down. AFter a while it will try again with similar results, and this sounds a bit like what you describe.

The regulator adjustment screw is external and easily reached.

Jim

[alofns]

Connected the turbine directly and still got the same result. Batteries are brand new so I can rule that out.