Ryan had some good information to add here.
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Chris and others.
I agree Bergey missed the mark by not advertising a Clipper
upgrade. It will keep the investment safe as well as save wear
and tear on the turbine. The Bergey however
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Subject: Re: [RE-wrenches] Bergey Excel 1 wind generator issues
Ray,
Are you referring to Midnite's wind turbine control box, which is what comes
with the Bergey?
It does not inc
Ray will also hopefully respond here. Bergey opted to sell the
combination of Classic, turbine control box and XL.1 turbine and take
on the
warranty for over-voltage installations, like this one . The data logs
show 400+ volts which is as high as the CL250 goes. They assumed that their
bla
Hi Jeremy;
I'm referring to the Clipper. It includes everything that the regular
control box MNTCB includes: rectifier, bypass/ brake switching, but also
has the voltage limiting control circuit, and dump resistors. Midnite
sells several size resistors, so I'm waiting to find out which ohm
Ray,
Are you referring to Midnite's wind turbine control box, which is what comes
with the Bergey?
It does not include any diversion for slowing the turbine. I questioned why
they did not use the clipper, but did not really get an answer. We have
installed 2 of the Excel 1s in the last 6 months
We've done some research on this, as we're doing an XL.1 project at 12 v
right now.
I don't have first hand experience with the Clipper yet, but I have over
a decade of XL.1 experience and many years with Midnite's electronics.
The Clipper is exactly what is needed. It also moves the rectifier
Hello Wrenches:
We have a customer who's got one of the Excel One wind gennies, and he's
burnt up two Classic controllers (overvoltagethe 2nd time it got over
400V before it burnt up). Bergey's been dragging their feet as to why this
is happening; they're saying it's probably an "upslope sit
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