About the service
I start with the wind, not with the hardware. Before anything is bolted together I look at the average annual wind speed for your location, the shape of the terrain, the tree line, the ridge of the roof and the distance to every obstacle upwind. From that I work out the hub height that actually pays for itself. The same machine standing ten metres up in the turbulent wake behind a barn will give roughly a third of what it produces at eighteen metres in clean flow, so the mast is not a mounting bracket, it is half of your energy yield. I measure, I calculate, and I tell you honestly whether your plot needs a taller tower or whether a turbine makes no sense here at all.
The second half of the job is the ground and the guys. I set the foundation for the soil you actually have, place the anchors at the calculated radius, tension the stays evenly and build a tilt-up mast with a winch, so one person can lower the machine for service or ahead of a storm warning. Lowering has to take minutes, otherwise nobody ever does it. Every installation gets a working shutdown path: furling or an aerodynamic brake, an overspeed limit, a dump load able to swallow full output when the batteries are already full, and a manual short-circuit brake you can reach from the ground without climbing. A turbine that cannot be stopped in a gale is a turbine that a gale will destroy.
Then the electrical side, done as one complete system: rectification and a charge controller matched to the curve of your particular generator rather than to a solar panel, cable sized for the real voltage drop over the run from the mast to the house, a battery bank sized from your measured daily consumption and a sensible depth of discharge, an inverter for the household circuits, surge protection, fusing, a separate earthing loop for the mast and a labelled distribution point indoors. I finish with commissioning under load, output readings in several wind conditions, a written inspection schedule and a walk-through of what to do when the weather turns serious.
What the job includes:
— site survey, wind assessment and hub height calculation
— foundation, anchors, guy wires and tilt-up mast assembly
— turbine mounting, balancing and first raising
— charge controller, dump load and braking circuit
— battery bank assembly, wiring and inverter setup
— grounding, surge protection and the feed into the house
— commissioning, measurements and maintenance briefing
The second half of the job is the ground and the guys. I set the foundation for the soil you actually have, place the anchors at the calculated radius, tension the stays evenly and build a tilt-up mast with a winch, so one person can lower the machine for service or ahead of a storm warning. Lowering has to take minutes, otherwise nobody ever does it. Every installation gets a working shutdown path: furling or an aerodynamic brake, an overspeed limit, a dump load able to swallow full output when the batteries are already full, and a manual short-circuit brake you can reach from the ground without climbing. A turbine that cannot be stopped in a gale is a turbine that a gale will destroy.
Then the electrical side, done as one complete system: rectification and a charge controller matched to the curve of your particular generator rather than to a solar panel, cable sized for the real voltage drop over the run from the mast to the house, a battery bank sized from your measured daily consumption and a sensible depth of discharge, an inverter for the household circuits, surge protection, fusing, a separate earthing loop for the mast and a labelled distribution point indoors. I finish with commissioning under load, output readings in several wind conditions, a written inspection schedule and a walk-through of what to do when the weather turns serious.
What the job includes:
— site survey, wind assessment and hub height calculation
— foundation, anchors, guy wires and tilt-up mast assembly
— turbine mounting, balancing and first raising
— charge controller, dump load and braking circuit
— battery bank assembly, wiring and inverter setup
— grounding, surge protection and the feed into the house
— commissioning, measurements and maintenance briefing
