Thanks gents.
Yea I know ghurd, I like the way my little mills work. They spin up fast and then just trickle charge the battery bank.
This is a monster of a motor and I'll of course try to see what it can do. It's always been very safe by furling early.
I did get to see it start to partially furl at only a tad over 15 amps. it's time to add weight to the tail now.
Looking at the blade calculators I know its about the limit with the 13'er and the 120 rpm cut-in, but with my winds I'm
more interested in the lite winds I get more often than when the storms come through.
I was impressed getting up in the middle of the night and looking at the c-40 remote meter and it saying 30 volts and dumping
15 amps.
I built a 1500 watt resistor set-up for a dump load before putting up this motor so I'm ready for at least what the c-40 can do.
But the last big motor I had up for the 12 volt system I was pushing two c-40's to there limit dumping around 100 amps. That's
getting kind of scary. I'd be running around checking if anything was getting hot or looking to see if it was furling or checking the
tower out.
I'm just hooked that's all. I'm planning on putting up another tower further away from the house and it would be nice to just have
a few little mills going that can't get into too much trouble, but it's all in swept area of the rotor, so we'll see. I have to put some of
these motors I've been collecting over the years into service.
Cheers
Mike
