Pikasola Wind Turbine 200W max 220W 12V 5 Blade Wind Vertical Axis Generator 3 Phase AC Permanent Magnet Generator Wind Turbine Kit with Controller for Hybrid Wind Solar System

Not designed to run your whole house. This is a “ float charger” for your system. We have solar panels charging eight golf cart batteries wired as 12 volts and an inverter to 110 ac. Works great and this turbine charges night and day as a supplement.Their customer service is absolutely top notch, instantly answering questions and providing answers.Plus we get compliments on the great appearance of this turbine!

I purchased this to augment solar array on a led sign. Contracted electrician and bucket truck, and installed at 35', well clear of any obstructions. Purchased hybrid controller as well and carefully calculated loads and capacity. When installation completed there was very little wind. Controller read a whopping .04A generation. Was not concerned. After a week batteries were drained due to overcast conditions but we had hi winds the whole time. Amazon agreed to return the cutoff date, so I purchased another and scheduled bucket truck again. New one arrived. Mounted to a short piece of pipe and got out leaf blower. Neither could ever get above .08A, and maximum 9VDC. Im now invested $3600.00 into the related costs of proper installation and still have no solid way of maintaining generation in lo/no sun conditions.UPDATE: Purchased the TYCON TP400 and installed. 18VDC and almost 12A generation in mild winds. Spend the extra money folks.

This 200 watt generator was going to augment my home solar generators. I wanted to learn from it the same way I learned by building my solar generators - some portable, some not so portable.One of my solar generators has 2-100 watt LiFePo batteries, 400 watts of solar panels, 40 amp solar controller and a few other items. It can stand on on its own for limited emergency power (refrigerator). Other solar generators provide backup power for internet connectivity, smartphone recharge, a couple of LED lights - some other stuff). Cloudy days or when the smoke (we live in California) is so thick sunlight is severely curtailed and at night, solar electrical production is not quite there and recharging falls short.Enter this wind turbine generator. 200 watts is not going to make/break anything, but it was expected to teach me.The weight of this 200 watt wind turbine with the blades installed is about 23 pounds. For round numbers, let's say 25 pounds - a separate pole mount would easily get us there. Issue 1: Securely pole mounting this wind turbine in a corner of the backyard would be interesting.Issue 2: Run electrical conduit from this wind-turbine to the solar generator location nearer the house. The conduit needs to carry appropriately-gauge electrical wiring to connect the wind turbine to its controller. As with the solar panels, the controller will be located near the storage batteries. Update 11/4/2020: There is a hybrid wind turbine + solar panel controller available from Pikasola - additional expense, good that it is MPPT. Can't find the amp-rating as with the solar controllers I have used (Renogy).The suggested installation height "should be 20 feet higher than the top of the nearest obstruction"... house, shed, trees, hill, etc. and should be "located 10 times the height of the building" away from that obstruction. Issue 3: I don't know about your neighborhood, but the houses in suburbs I know don't have this much room.The above two issues have pushed me to make this "kinetic art" project that happens to generate a small bit of electricity. It will be installed on a 9 foot steel pole sunk in a 18 inches square x 3 foot deep hole filled with concrete. That will give me a 9 feet of pole above ground/concrete + 2 feet for the turbine gets to 11 feet tall. No guy wires needed. There will be a much shorter conduit run (closer to the house and generator) as it won't have to run the length of the backyard. (11/4/2020: I updated the size of the concrete block/mount from 1 foot square to 18 inches square and will use a hinged wind turbine pole mount rather than sink the pole into the concrete. This will make maintenance - if any is needed - easier. That means the pole needs to be shorter so is now 9 feet instead of 12 feet tall.)Now I know why the manufacturer does not include installation requirements on the product page. I really should have thought this through. I can still return the purchases - but am even more curious.Issue 4: There is no "support infrastructure" in place like the armies of solar panel installers and the small panel installation I did on the back porch "roof" for the solar generator was easy for me to do...Hindsight being 20/20, here we are. I'll try to remember to update this post after installation. At this point, I can say the wind-turbine and blades look cool... in the box. The fit/finish on the wind turbine is good. I hope the update includes wind-speed needed to get to 200 watt (if that makes sense) output. This wind-turbine was shipped with a small and lightweight handheld anemometer. I have no way to know how accurate it is with wind speed until I am able to calibrate it with a known, accurate device - the anemometer part of it is accurate.+++Update 4/22/2021: Ultimately - and recently - I decided against installing this. I am well outside the return period. The above issues not withstanding, I normally don't "give up" on these sorts of science-project activities. In this case, the already incurred expense for the turbine, hybrid wind/solar controller, dump, mounting flange, hinged base pole-mount, a few other items all totaling about $800 pushed me to follow through. In the end, loss of the backyard space for limited return played against it. At least I did not install the concrete foot for mounting and did not buy a couple of sacks on concrete before giving up... An expensive mistake on my part. The purchased items will be donated to a local school interested in learning to understand alternative power generation methods. I'll probably include a couple of other items (2" diameter 8-12 foot steel pole, solar panel, 100 amp hour 12v storage battery, cables and battery storage, etc.) to make a complete "power storage system", installation guidance and follow-on "support" if needed.I will provide another update if/when this is ever installed somewhere.

The media could not be loaded. Looks nice and cool. Many neighbors asked about it. Installed 2 weeks ago waiting for strong to see if it works. Today 24mph winds, see it spin in video but still no power to charge my 206Wh test battery setup! Like several over reviewers say did work, no power only looks cool!After above review I decided to contact customer service. Excellent quick response. Could not troubleshoot to correct problem so offered full refund and suggest I go with their propeller wind generator design which has 4-star reviews and 2x power at 400W for the same price. I will try the 400W propeller design and update after the holidays. They need to provide technical troubleshooting instructions or commissioning steps and checks using a multimeter to verify performance.

Wings are not sturdy. Item received was missing parts and had been returned. All parts weee just thrown in a box.

This wind turbine works very well for my neighbor Patrick Magin's application. Customer support has exceeded expectations. I highly recommend this product and company.

I take this as a second power source for my battery. It works well until now.Especially for customer service is pretty good, seller will answer your questions in quicky and efficiency

I haven't hooked this up to my off-grid power system yet. I need a generator at night for when solar doesn't work, but it had to be small enough that our massive wind storms wouldn't rip it to pieces. It was missing some parts, but most importantly, there is no pole to mount the generator on to. They simply had a metal disk with holes punched in it that matched the bottom of the wind generator... I even recently got my welding certificate, but I thought this was ridiculous. Who buys a wind generator that shows a working generator, with a connection to a stand pole that holds the generator, and then are told 'weld it yourself'? They even now, still, show a flanged metal disk with a pole on it, attached to the wind generator in their advertisement pictures (all nice and painted white). As it was, I took it to a local welder, got a steel pipe with the correct outer diameter (schedule 40 steel from what I remember at 1.9"), and for the minor welding job, plus 5 feet of pipe, I paid about $100 for the service and pipe. They should tell you this all in advance. If they did tell us, I certainly didn't notice after hours of studying whether or not I wanted it. Good Luck with your projects.