It is interesting that when you download the manual for the Sunforce
400, you get a 2002 vintage SWWP Air-X manual.
Kent Osterberg
Blue Mountain Solar, Inc.
www.bluemountainsolar.com
On 4/3/2012 5:24 PM, Dan Fink wrote:
Esteemed Wrenches;
I've been watching this thread closely, and I'm thinking something is
really fishy about the Sunforce turbine....distributed by Coleman
(camp stoves, sleeping bags, lanterns) and also distributed by Home
Depot, Lowes, Sears, Target, Radio Shack, Kmart, Fry's, West Marine,
Northern Tool.... I'm too busy right now to do any investigative
journalism. The "400" looks like a Southwest Wind Power product, but I
can't tell. The "600" appears to be a Chinese turbine, like so many
we have seen before.
Fishy things:
~ Sunforce company website and docs do not show any UL or CE listing
for the included MPPT controller, nor any country of manufacture;
~ reviews on Amazon saying the Sunforce is really "Made in USA" by
"Southwest Wind Power." Shills?
~ Mutally-linking advertising / sales drive / link spam websites not
related to either Sunforce or SWWP that extoll the virtues of the
Sunforce, quoting each other, some even using the name "Sunforce
Whisper";
Is there an official rep from SWWP on this list? It would be
interesting to hear if the Sunforce turbines are really made by SWWP
in the USA. If not -- SWWPs legal department has some work cut out for
them.
I may have made a misjudgement here -- but I doubt it! Smells like
snake oil, and I bet all of the wind power professionals on this site
have a keen nose for rotten fish,
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