As the title says, i cant find them anywhere. Have they been removed or what?
Besides the obvious difference in metal/energy cost and that Wind Generators are good on maps with high amounts of wind, and that Solar Collectors sort of fill the need for energy when wind is scarce.
What are the true positives and negatives of both, as well as the best situations to use both.
Thanks.
I came up with this method of rolling wind randomly, primarily for a seafaring campaign. Feedback is welcome and I'd like to hear what methods you use to generate wind conditions!
To determine the wind strength, roll 1d6 + a modifier.
Determine the starting value of the modifier by rolling 1d4.
The roll on the d6 changes the modifier.
1: reduce the modifier by 2 for future rolls
2: reduce the modifier by 1 for future rolls
3-4: No change
5: increase the modifier by 1 for future rolls
6: increase the modifier by 2 for future rolls
The result determines the strength of the wind:
| Result | Wind | Speed Factor | DC | Other |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 or lower | Calm | x0 | 0 | Lasts 1d4 days, reset modifier to 1d4 |
| 2-4 | Light breeze | x0.5 | 5 | |
| 5-7 | Strong breeze | x1 | 10 | |
| 8-10 | Gale | x1.5 | 15 | |
| 11 or higher | Storm | x2 | 20 | Lasts 1d4 days, reset modifier to 1d4 |
To determine the direction of the wind, first determine the prevailing direction for the wind in the area and then roll 1d8:
1: The wind direction changes two steps clockwise
2: The wind direction changes two steps counter-clockwise
3: The wind direction changes one step clockwise
4: The wind direction changes one step counter-clockwise
5: The wind direction doesn't change
6: The wind direction doesn't change
7: The wind direction changes one step toward the prevailing direction
8: The wind direction changes two steps toward the prevailing direction
What do you think?
So generally it shouldnt be so difficult, right? Well if it would be a regular AC generator you could easily connect it to the charge controller and youre good.
Well, turns out that the pre-existing wind generator here is a DC one (only negative and positive cable) and I dont know how to connect it? Im tempted to just put it in a solar panel charge controller, but then I dont know how this system is supposed to dump load? Which, from googling, is an important thing with wind turbines?
I measured earlier and I could measure some voltage so its generally doing something, right?
The situation is this: I got this new boat and I am now rewiring all the stuff (or connect previously disconnected things like this wind generator), and there is a cable running to the battery department labelled "wind generator". I guess at some point it worked? Why else would it be pulled through the boat and have a very old label? Cant imagine someone drilling holes, doing all that work without the wind turbine working in the first place.
Now does anyone have an idea how I connect it to my battery?
https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/winter-storm-forces-blackouts-across-texas
"Unprecedented winter storms have hit Texas so hard and forced so many power plants offline that rolling grid outages that began Sunday night have grown into hours-long blackouts leaving about 2.5 million customers without power on Monday morning. Until those power plants can be brought back online, it’s unclear how many people will be left powerless and for how long.
That’s the dire report from Texas grid operator ERCOT after its supply-demand balance grew much worse than expected through Sunday evening and into Monday morning. The historic storm that spurred a statewide emergency declaration from Gov. Greg Abbott on Friday has forced power plants and wind farms to stop generating electricity, triggering statewide emergency blackouts and leaving the timeline for restoring that power unclear.
Texas has become the epicenter in a series of winter storms that has blanketed the central U.S. and spurred storm watches in 40 states. ERCOT hit a record winter peak demand of about 69.2 gigawatts on Sunday evening. Demand for electricity to heat and power homes, businesses and factories remained high through the evening and into Monday morning, Dan Woodfin, ERCOT’s senior director of system operations, said in a Monday press conference.
At the same time, a number of natural gas, coal and nuclear thermal generators began tripping offline starting around 1:30 a.m. Monday, he said. While ERCOT hasn’t yet collected the data to determine the precise causes of those generator outages, a previous report from a 2014 cold snap suggests a range of causes, from natural-gas pipelines freezing up to the failure of equipment that's needed to keep power plants operating safely"
Summary: Texas and most states that don't generally deal with cold weather are massively unprepared and all grid systems must be updated to higher standards to handle load surges and renewable energy. This effected ALL energy sources.
I was watching a 1:10:100:1000 gear ratio video where someone takes minimal effort to move a handle and the ratios all add up so that the last gear is outputting 1000x the amount of rotations the handle is outputting. Why can't we put this type of mechanism (on a lower scale so as to not cause it to blow up from going to fast) on a generator? Why or why not does this break the 1st Law of Thermodynamics (aka conservation or energy)?
I'm building a wind turbine off thingiverse that uses a nema 17 as the generator, it doesn't produce the desired output of 30-80w that I want and can't find any actual generators that could fit in the footprint. I was increasing the total diameter of the blades so I could get as much mechanical energy as possible but it's pointless if I can't get it transferred to electrical energy any advice would be greatly appreciated
I am seriously considering adding a wind generator to my system because it suits my location, but don't want to stress my LiFePo by micro cycling multiple times a day.
I need to figure out how to create a wind generator system that dumps load without the dump load going through the batteries!? For example: the charge controller for the turbine identifies max load then diverts energy from the turbine before it even reaches the charge controller or battery. Every diversion / dump load system seems to cycle the excess energy though the batteries themselves, something that should probably be avoided. In dire need of a solution, but after many days of research there seems to be no solution. Maybe someone has solved this problem already? I would love to know...
I've been playing since last November, so give me some slack, but...
I learned early on that wind generators would not work when attached to mobile blocks. Long story short, I experimented with placing wind generators on a mobile vehicle, equiped mobile with merge block, created a stationary mobile block, "docked" the merge blocks, and was able to generate power to charge.
So I'm curious how far behind the curb I am. How many of you have done this? How many of you never thought to do this?
This came about because I wanted to reliably move across pertrams surface. Wind seemed like a constant, and a resource worth exploiting in a sand storm. How to harness while on the move? Build a merge block and dock to it: wind generators work.
I am seriously considering adding a wind generator to my system because it suits my location, but don't want to stress my LiFePo by micro cycling multiple times a day.
I need to figure out how to create a wind generator system that dumps load without the dump load going through the batteries!? For example: the charge controller for the turbine identifies max load then diverts energy from the turbine before it even reaches the charge controller or battery. Every diversion / dump load system seems to cycle the excess energy though the batteries themselves, something that should probably be avoided. In dire need of a solution, but after many days of research there seems to be no solution. Maybe someone has solved this problem already? I would love to know...
