Storm Warnings for your Wind Turbine

Sorry it has been so long.  My Job that pays has been taking up more than it's fair share of my life. I promise more posts later this month.   My turbine is still spinning ( knock on wood sound effect) . 

FYI - if there is a storm coming - Turn off your Wind turbine. If the power goes off while in a wind gust you are very much in danger of losing control of the turbine.  The physical breaks alone can't stop the blades at the highest speeds.

Calling all ReDriven Wind Turbine Owners . . .

Introducing

Sustaining Your ReDriven  (Our new Website)

Redriven is no long going to provide any support or parts, so it is time for us to work together to keep our turbines going.  I've started a new collaborative site called "Sustaining your ReDriven."

Just send me your email address if you would like to be a contributor or if let me know if you have a question / answer and I can post it for you.

Scott Fouts scott.fouts@yahoo.com has offered to help with the answers. He was a one of if not the best Redriven tech.  He is willing to help people get their Redriven wind turbines going.  Of course for time and materials.

So far I've got a few questions, and even fewer answers but it is start!  You're are not alone with your very large lawn ornament there is hope.


Let me know what you think!

Wind turbine One Year Results 2,957 KWH

This our second year as a wind turbine owners, but our first year running constantly. 

The total produced for the year was 2,957KWH.

Here is graph of the power by month.

Here is the wind for that same year broken two 1/2 2011 and 1/2 2012
This was not a great year for wind as you can see below.

Some support options Redriven owners

Mark Mayhew from NYSERDA New York State Energy Research and Development Authority stopped by Thursday evening. He said there are two vendors nearby that will service Redriven wind turbines for time and materials.


Alternative Power Solutions of NY, LLC
http://www.apsofny.com/
Northwood Business Center, suite 101
6780 Northern Blvd
East Syracuse, NY 13029
Owen Pugh or Conor Kays
315.314.6930
ophugh@apsfny.com


And

Pyrus Energy, Inc.
2737 Erie Drive
Weedsport, NY 13166
James Marshal
315-834-6687
info@pyrusenergy.com

May Results

Here are the results for the May

161KWH
Average wind speed 6.2 mph

Selling Redriven Parts?  Let me know what you are selling.

Rumors Run Rampant about Redriven

Sorry readers, my job (that pays)  has been consuming every waking moment for the last three weeks and I totally missed all the Redriven news.

My first clue was that my husband noticed that his best Redriven Contact Dave V. the programmer was no longer working for Redriven on Linked in.

The Mark Mayhew (NYSERDA)  emailed me that there was a recall for some hubs and some people were asked to stop their turbines. He asked if we were one of them. We haven't heard anything yet.

Then today, I logged into my wind turbine email and yikes!  Many emails telling me the Redriven is no longer answering the phone and the website is down.

Check this out http://www.ripoffreport.com/building-products/orenda-energy/orenda-energy-redriven-power-cb1e1.htm

April - Great for Wind but Not So Great Results.

I thought April was going to be a great month. The average wind speed  was 11.4 mph . It seemed we had more wind in april than all winter. 
We had an up grade to version 3.59  ~ april 15th
Out put this month   353KWH for the month
the inverters produced 447KWh