Hi Nick,
This is easy and there are a few options that I"ve done.
1. depending on the turbine or turbine possibilities you can use
standard or slightly modified battery chargers.
ie each charger is therefore a current limiting device so each house
gets no more than the charger size.
Yes there will need to be a dump load so that if all the chargers are
regulating there is somewhere for it to go.
2. You can use a timers and relays to send the watts to the different
houses.
Feel free to contact me and I can work out some details for you.
jay
peltz power
On Oct 25, 2009, at 2:29 PM, Nick Houser wrote:
Esteemed fellow wrenches: May we put our heads together on today's
problem
in my terrain: How best to distribute and regulate the output of a
single
turbine from a convenient distribution point to
four residences on the off grid property, each with it's own 12 volt
battery/inverter system. If I may spare you the details of the
lake/stream/intake/penstock and apparatus, let's say we have
sufficient head and flow to divide 700 watts four ways, average
distance
maybe 300 feet. The problem becomes: diversion controllers and dump
loads
at each battery or some central scheme?
Anybody done this kind of thing? Cautionary tales welcomed. (Any
experienced comments welcomed.
Thanks muchly in advance. Nick Houser Off Grid Services, Lund,
British
Columbia.
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