Sunforce Wind Generator Turbine - 600 Watts, Model# 45444
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Very good product
Hi I found this to be a very good product however you must take your time and do everything according to the manual and code. The pole must be securely installed i used schedule 40 pipe 2 10 feet pieces and cemented it in the ground with 2by6 pressure treated fastened to the studs and fastened to the pipe with a threaded flange on the 2by6 and t fitting to the pipe i used marine 3 conducted #10 wire. Customer support is very good and it has a 5 year limited warranty. I spoke to customer service and they advised me not to connect the the inverter load side of the battery controller and it performs better. Just take your time and if you need help contact customer service. I have two you tube videos look for jerrys coleman wind turbine and jerrys coleman wind turbine and solar power. sunforce and coleman are now together.
May 12, 2013
Worse than a waste of money
I purchased the turbine and the rectifier / charger assembly fried within a few days of installation. I returned the turbine and got another. It died with a siezed main bearing within a few weeks. I got another from Sunforce and it, too, died with a siezed bearing in a few months.
Putting up a turbine is not a trivial effort; this poorly designed unit caused me three installations without satisfaction.
April 22, 2013
Not worth the money
After purchasing and installing this unit I found the MTTP controller was malfunctuning. Sunforce replaced it at no cost. After using the turbine at my camp for two weeks hooked to my battery bank while I was gone there was no gain whatsoever in my batteries. The power inverter is turned off when I am gone so there is no draw and still the batteries did not charge at all. We had plenty of wind over the two week period and I expected to come back to camp and have my batteries topped off but there was no difference in voltage since I left. I had to start the generator to recharge the batteries. I have run a multi meter on all parts of the system and everything appears to be working but this system is no better than a battery maintainer. I think it would only be good for keeping and ATV battery topped off. For that my 15 watt solar panel works just fine for far less cost. I wish I would not have wasted the money on this and just invested it in solar panels. That is my next step, to increase my solar charging ability. I thought this would be a great addition. NOT!!!!
December 14, 2011
very bad product
it is misleading on charging system, and takes very long time to charge batteries. I have had two burned up due to poor construction, If I could give it a 0 stars I would do so.
September 28, 2011
sunforce 600 watt wind turbine
I put this up and within minues it started turning. I looked at many wind turbines, and for the price and simplicity of this one, this is a far better choice.I have solar and with the directions, it makes it so easy to instal. I added a little paint to mine and it looks great, very impressive and my neighbors love it too. Very quiet and when it is spinning fast, it is still pretty quiet. I think I made the right choice.
August 31, 2010