The Whisper 1000 is made by the same folks that made my Air Marine. I have found the Air Marine to follow exactly its published power curve.
8-10 amps may not sound like much in a 10mph wind, but if it keeps it up for 12 hours it can be all you need and then some! I seldom use more than 30 AH a day even if I run the laptop for hours. On watermaking day that changes, a once a week exception when on a passage, when wind is more abundant. One thing not mentioned before is reliability. I have found the Air Marine to be very, very reliable. Mine is acting up now, damaged from an indirect lightning hit, but over the almost 15 years I have owned it, it has used three sets of blades (sheltered anchorages are nice but wind/storm thrown tree limbs are hard on blades!) and has been fine otherwise. What's more it has needed no regulation other than its own built in regulator. It is light weight and easy to work on. On the downside, it is definatly noisier than some other models...but those models weigh twice as much for the power this one puts out. Overall I think Southwest Windpower models are a good choice. -Ken _______________________________________________ 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
