I don't know what the rotor diameter is for the 100 model but the 200 has a 10 feet and it is for home renewable energy use. I don't thing you would want a rotor diameter more than 3 feet for a sailboat or a small vessel in that respect.
Yanni Marinated S/V Princess Thalia Hamilton-Fifty Point @H3 www.yannismarine.ca ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ken Klingman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, November 04, 2007 4:40 PM Subject: Re: [Liveaboard] Whisper 100 Wind Gen >I only use the stated power rating as a rough comparison > between generators. But to compare them apples-to-apples > you need a power v.s. wind speed chart as you found for the > older version of the Whisper. Thanks for pointing me to it! > > For other common marine wind gens you can see their power v.s. > wind speed (actually amps v.s. wind speed; let's hope they're > using 12v amps!): > > http://www.fourwinds-ii.com/v2/?c=library&i=windGenComp > > Nobody puts out very much power at 10mph, though it looks like > the Red Baron (and Fourwinds?) puts out a little less than 70 > watts at 10mph wind speed. Hard to read the equivalent Whisper > chart, but interpolating it looks like about 50 watts at 10mph. > But by the time you get to 15mph it's putting out nearly 200 > watts while the Red Baron/Fourwinds are putting out just a tad > more than 120 watts. > > I would never expect to see 28mph winds with any regularity, > but I would expect to see between 10 and 15 here in the Caribbean. > Based on power generation between 10 and 15 I'm still looking > favorably at the Whisper. > > Ken > S/V Aurora > _______________________________________________ > Liveaboard mailing list > [email protected] > To adjust your membership settings over the web > http://www.liveaboardnow.org/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard > To subscribe send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To unsubscribe send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > The archives are at http://www.liveaboardnow.org/pipermail/liveaboard/ > > To search the archives > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] > > The Mailman Users Guide can be found here > http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html > > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.503 / Virus Database: 269.15.21/1109 - Release Date: > 04/11/2007 11:05 AM > > _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list [email protected] To adjust your membership settings over the web http://www.liveaboardnow.org/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] The archives are at http://www.liveaboardnow.org/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
