Honeywell Mini Wind Turbines

[rl71459]

Has anyone else seen the Honeywell Wind Turbines that are advertised in "Northern Tool & Equipment"

They claim decent KWH in a small footprint. It made me curious cause I live on the end of a lake and have high winds frequently. These claim to be roof mountable and have some kind of "Blade Tip" technology.

Sooo    Does anyone know anything good or bad about these?

Rob

[mobile_bob]

save your money, is all i can say
these things have been the topic of discussion on the windpower forums some time ago, and the consensus
is that honeywell allowed their name to be attached to a less than acceptable product that was over hyped.

unless they are very inexpensive and you don't expect much, then maybe you won't be disappointed,,

btw, never mount any windgen to your house roof, you won't be able to tolerate the noise and vibration.

bob g

[wrightkiller]

Honeywell Wind Turbine to be Sold at Ace Hardware Stores for $4,500.......

::)OUCH!!!!!!!!  NOT ON MY HOUSE>>>>>>

[Carlb]

I don't know anything about the honeywell turbine but i do have a Skystream 3.7 on a monopole out back and I can tell you that if you attached it directly to the house you would have to leave the house when the wind blows.

[mobile_bob]

a 6' turbine of any type will not produce a significant amount of power for a family home, a cabin? maybe?

not unless it is running at this units max wind speed of 40mph will a turbine of that size make any substantial amount of power.

apparently honeywell, the manufactures and those associated with sales of this particular unit are unaware of things like the "betz limit",
the square and cube laws of wind power generation and a few other issues that limit the amount of power from a small machine.

a 6ft machine is seen as note much more than a toy, and not something that is going to offset  you power bill by a meaningful amount, meaning it will never pay for itself.

they talk about its ability to make power at 0.5 mph? ya right, at that windspeed there is no way it makes much more than it takes to light up an led let alone something useful in a house, and at the recommended 10-12mph windspeed i would be surprised if it can make 500watts max.  a site that has 10-12mph windspeeds a significant amount of time per year is an outstanding wind site.

at 5mph i would be amazed if it could produce 50 watts.

they talk about there unit using no power robbing gear box?  good for them, however there are no sub 15ft models from any manufacture that use a gear box that i know of, and certainly none in the 6ft diameter market. there is no power robbing gearbox
because the machine can't produce enough power to overcome "any" additional loading.

the hype behind this machine is near criminal in my opinion, any federal tax breaks, state tax breaks are just plain irresponsible use of tax dollars, and when someone finally figures this out the industry will be damaged irreparably by this product.

4500 dollars?  what a bunch of crap

please if anyone here is contemplating purchasing one of these, do a lot of research first, don't take their ad copy as fact, and don't believe me either, do  your own homework.

don't be taken, and don't let tax money to be spent supporting this sort of thing.

bob g

[wrightkiller]

 OOOPPPPSSSSS    THIS IS FROM the northern tool site ..I got the price wrong  


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