by mungus » Sat Oct 12, 2019 9:33 am
Thanks Curt,
Hoping to get on to it this summer. $ dependent. Something always seems to come up when you've got kids and live on a farm!
Even if your installation isn't ideal it will still be a fun project, and its nice to know on a dark windy night, that you are still getting something...
A smaller unit like yours shouldn't be hard to fit I'd think. I actually did look at the Jaycar turbines, very nice little units I thought. When I put up my weather station on the top of my barn, I was also a bit put off by fitting a guy wire, but it turned out to be dead easy to do, with Bunnings having all the materials needed for little $. The small pole it was bolted to was bouncing around too much when it blew. All good now.
I decided to go for a bigger turbine (1.6 to 2 KW) simply because they are not that much bigger physically and can make a noticeable difference. If you view some of the MW&S YouTube videos (and some by users whove installed their systems), they're not very noisy. I guess to be fair I'm not so fussed as our barn is about 50M from our house, behind a row of trees, so we will neither see nor hear the thing. Everyone is in a different situation I guess.