I looked it up and Colorado City is down between
Lubbock and Abilene off I-20...I'll see what I can do
about a trip. About 200 miles it looks to be. The
map is below;
http://maps.yahoo.com/py/maps.py?Pyt=Tmap&YY=7819&city=Colorado%20City&state=TX&slt=32.4066&sln=-100.8595&mag=7&cs=5&newmag=4
Thanks for taking up the gauntlet Pat! Maybe a video
camera or good stills of what he has might be of use.
I still love the idea of a rooftop unit, some parts of
Texas are windy all the time, particularly Wichita
Falls (tornado alley..<g>..)...
Lot's of places couldn't use such a system but many
could so it is an option if your house happens to be
in a viable wind position. Maybe even an extender
pole on the side of the house.
I don't know about that phasing business with utility
power, its not impossible to do but I agree with the
guy from Florida who sent me an email saying they
require a 10 million dollar insurance policy for
co-generators and some kind of special switch that
will remove the power from the line if their lineman
have to work on the power lines.
This prevents them from being electrocuted if normal
grid power is removed and your power is still on.
I can't see any sense in trying to drive the load from
the vagaries of the wind...have to have constant
reliable power, that's why something a bit more than a
trickle charge to keep a battery network charged would
be the way to go.
There is a guy out in Louisiana who was selling a
video detailing his experience and practical
installation and usage of a diesel powered generator
that fed a battery network which runs inverters to
power his house. He has two battery networks and auto
switching so that when one battery network begins to
run down the network that has been charged is switched
in to keep everything running.
It's pretty slick and we showed it at the roundtable
meeting. Of course, its not remotely free energy
since he had to spend about $20,000 to set it all up
plus the diesel to run it. Something like 10 deep
cycle batteries in parallel, the trickle charger, the
wind generator (or whatever else charges the network)
and inverters to feed the circuit breakers, maybe as
low as $10,000 to setup.
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--- Pat Price <pat_price@asd.sel.sony.com> wrote:
> Jerry et al,
> I contacted the Saronan Power Company this
> morning. Their phone
> number ((915) 728-5553) is shown on the web site.
> After reading your
> challenge to actually contact them instead of
> carping about a drawing
> and trying to infer too much from it, as is the
> tendency of arm chair
> engineers, I decided to pick up the gauntlet and
> make the call.
>
> An older gentleman in Colorado City Texas
> answered the phone and
> finally passed me off to who I am assuming was his
> wife. She took my
> address and promised to sent some "stuff" out to me.
> When I receive what
> ever they send I will have it scanned in and emailed
> to Jerry and he can
> post it on the Keelynet archive.
>
> My own observation is that this company is
> really a garage shop
> operation setup by a retired tinker, which is not to
> be sneered at
> because he is actually doing something. I have seen
> some above average
> engineering in my time by what large groups would
> call under educated
> designers and this gentleman may well fall into that
> group, time will
> tell. Anything other than that would be speculation
> on my part, not that
> I've been above speculating on other subjects on
> which I knew nothing
> about, but I would agree with Jerry that we need to
> actually look at
> hard data.
>
> Thanks
> Pat
>
>
>
>
>
>
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