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Noise and generators
"Rosalie B." wrote in message We have heard the same from folks that cruise in the tropics and near tropics also. They do not like wind generators and take them off and go exclusively with solar panels. We however like ours very well. It works especially well at night when the sun doesn't shine and when it is cloudy, which it sometimes is up here in the Chesapeake. It is not dangerous or noisy, but it also does warn us when the wind is cranking up. Our KISS normally doesn't wake us up as it is very quiet. Plus it is mounted on the stern and we sleep in the V-Berth. When it's squall time at 3 am and the wind kicks up to 35 kts with cold driving rain - who wants to go on deck to turn it out of the wind and secure it. They all sound like a Cessna on the back deck trying to do a short field takeoff. And they **** off you neighbors. I just flick a switch from inside the boat to shut the wind generator down. Better yet, the charge controller senses the high wind situation and shuts it down automatically until the wind calms down to an acceptable level. Swinging the mill by hand is both dangerous and archaic. We don't have to go outside the boat either - the wind gen turns itself off if the wind gets too high, or we have a switch inside that we can turn it off when we are in a marina and don't want to disturb our neighbors. Some neighbors are easier to disturb than others. Some neighbors I'd like to disturb because they disturb me, but Bob restrains me. Running a wind generator in a marina is rude! Never any good reason to do so. We'd like to have a genset for among other things to refill the scuba tanks. What we have now is engine driven refrigeration, which we run twice a day. 12 volt belt driven holding plate systems work well. The genset is a nice complement. We run our genset for an hour in the morning to pull down the cold plates and recharge the batteries and make coffee. Run it again in the early evening to pull down the plates, recharge the batteries and make hot water. Doug s/v Callista |
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