Well I have given this some time before I wrote this review. I bought 2 of these charging a 10 12v battery bank which feeds my grid tie inverters. I live in North Texas so in my area I don't have a lot of wind. As soon as I released the brake the blades started turning and only stopped for 2 days out of the month. I'm also running 1000w of solar so on a nice cloudy day the turbines pick up the slack for charging my batteries. I am very pleased with my turbines and plan on buying 2 more which will give me a total of 4 along with my solar. Sorry electric company. I'm just tired of paying your high rates.
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This turbine is well built. All around one of the best I have tried for low wind's. There is a video on you tube with what this turbine look's like out of the box. Just search wind max turbine HY-400 on you tube. Power output is excellent for low wind. All around 5 star's. I am a electrician these can be a bit tricky to install and I suggest that you have a electrician wire them for you. The rest of the install can be fairly easy.
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if you want to install this unit yourself DO NOT BUY! it comes with incomplete(intentionally) instructions-they say"these are not installation instructions, hire a electrical engineer"-there are no wiring diagrams, no output voltages,NO PHONE# to call. If you manage to find the # for their company, and try to ask about something stupid like output voltage they say"we don't support self installs", and WILL NOT answer ANY of your questions. they are just a re-pack and ship outfit(this is what THEY say) that makes a profit, while looking for ways NOT to warranty or support their product. if you are a good enough liar they might talk to you. they say if your turban fails due to the charge controller THEY sell with the unit no warranty, if you install yourself-no warranty, this unit has NO WARRANTY or instructions except that they do NOT warranty or support their china made productthe charge controller does not indicate the same as my other quality controller from arizona wind and suni have 4x 140watt poly panels, a aims 8000watt inverter(which failed,and aims replaced within 2weeks) I got good service from everyone else,.If you want to get treated like dirt, do business with these people.
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THE NEW CONTROLLER HAD TO BE SOLD AS JUNK, IT'S A WWS04-12-N00D From another maker possibly and is no good for adding to more solar and wind like the older HY WS12400L controller does. It fights all your other turbines and solar inputs. Toss it or sell it. Buy a rectifier as so many are telling to do on these now. Mine hit 219 degrees and thermal shut down and almost toasted the turbines. ### The MAKER of the new controller ( we call it a cooker) has asked I upload a video they can watch, hope Amazon lets them see it. Had to do all kinds of cutting and quality lowering to get it small enough to fit the limit here, Sorry!
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I just ordered a new one from the dealer in Texas magnets for less. They are butt heads to say the least. Don't know the answers to your questions. Personalities of retired hookers and not really into the customer, just a reboxing outfit like another reviewer said. You can go onto madeinchina.com and find the HY400L 5 blade as a HYenergy for a lot less. Pay to get it from china directly or from Amazon. I would have bought mine that way but the tax rebate question I had had not been answered when I wanted to buy it before the end of this year so I spent the extra $120 to guarantee I get $280 of it back in rebates.
Those guys in Plano Texas are really not a choice to buy from, Kinda lazy bunch and they are not willing to do anything but put a shipping label on it and cash your check! The HYenergy product has been on the market for over 10 years and I seen them all over the pacific islands. They are decent quality.
If you can tolerate dealing with morons then go buy it from their site or look on madeinchina site and find the one you want and get it.
Heres my video of it search for [ Windmax HY 400 L 5 blade model(HY Energy of the Guangzhou Energy Technology Co.) ]copy and search that lead and see the vid. There are 2 videos on this in my uploads.
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Update... 12/30/12 2 nd Generator is up and running on a 30 foot pole in Southern Idaho and has produced very good power from start. At this writing it has been 13 hours in over 25 mph winds, producing over 24 amps constant in the 3 incoming wires and very steady. Produced 2 amps in 6 mph, 7 amps in 10 mph, and 15 amps in 16 mph winds. Is not jumping around any and staying in the wind except in hard fast gust (35 mph) where it spins out of the wind a little.
UPDATE 2,for 2/28/13 First HY 400 L is running great and making good power in low wind, Just bought a second new one 2/28/13 this time from AMAZON and other than the box looking like hell the turbine is going up in a week. (we now have 3 total of these. A 3 blade that is 6 years old, and 2 of the newer 5 blade models) Really like them.
* However THE NEW CONTROLLER HAD TO BE SOLD AS JUNK, IT'S A WWS04-12-N00D From another maker and is no good for adding to more solar and wind like the older HY WS12400L controller does. It fights all your other stuff and thats no good. It literally sucks your power from all other sources and burns it up. By itself with all other stuff removed, it works great. But don't you want to add to your system, this controller wont let you!
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went up easy,and is working as it is supposed to.i have it hooked up to two 160 amp deep cycle batteries,and it is keeping them fully charged. would recomend this product...came with everything but pole-batteries-and wire..
