The next chapter:

Just added a second 80W PV panel and increased the battery capacity to around 800Ah. It seems that during winter/spring the wind turbine was providing ample power for much of the time (dumping into the load resistors), so the extra capacity should make better use of the turbine. Seems that for his modest needs he's now down to running the generator for just a couple of hours every 3 or 4 hours for a boost, so this should reduce that even further.

He's hoping to get finance for the larger mobile home this summer, then we'll transfer the existing PV panels and add a few more onto the roof of the new unit.

P.S. His planning application for continued siting of a mobile home for residential use is still pending after over a year! [Linked Image]



[This message has been edited by pauluk (edited 06-01-2006).]