The wind turbine ran for about 3 weeks in Dec/Jan, without any issues. One day my husband heard a strange noise and notice that one of the blades was not strait.
We put it in shut down mode and waited for a day in Jan that was not horrible to bring down the tower. One of the screw holes in the CAM ( the part the at the blades attach to ) was stripped.
I had to order a new part ( luckily there is a place that sells them still) but it set me back another 300 dollars and took about 2 months to arrive. Then we realized that we needed new bolts too, since they were stripped too. That took another week or so.
In early April we were finally back in business. Totally missing March the best wind month of the year.
I'm really happy with the South West Whisper 200 . It spins with just the slightest breeze and is really quiet. The Redriven tower is totally over kill, but at least the tower is no longer wasted.
It gives me pleasure to see it spinning almost all of the time now.
Next time I'll tell you about how much power we are making. Be prepared to be underwhelmed with the total, but peak power was way over expectations.
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