Hi Jeremy, I'm strongly suspecting that there is a winding short. What do you mean by upper casting assy? Do you mean the whole turbine unit? If so, who supplies them now?
Ron On 2013-09-08, at 7:51 PM, All Solar <[email protected]> wrote: > I have had the same problem recently. > Make sure you check phase to ground voltage not just phase to phase. > I had a whisper 100 that had the exact symptom and I replaced the controller > with one of the new Luminous RE units. The old controller actually checked > out fine on a known good turbine! > Waiting on an upper casting assy now. One of the windings is apparently > shorted > > Jeremy > All Solar > Penrose CO > > Sent by Jeremy's iPhone. Sorry for typos and shorthand! > > On Sep 8, 2013, at 7:14 PM, Ron Young <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I have a client with a Whisper 200 that failed recently. It was shortly >> after a severe lightning storm so the assumption was that the controller got >> fried. The wind turbine would not spin, it was as if the brake was on - if >> you know the Whisper, the brake is electrical, basically a shorting of the >> three phases. When the turbine was disconnected from the controller it would >> spin up and produce voltage at the leads. So the controller was replaced >> with a Clipper and Classic and the same problem still exists. I have >> resisted pulling the turbine down as it is a complicated sidehill >> installation but it looks like it will have to be done. Before I do that I >> thought I'd throw this out into the Wrenches community to see if anyone >> could offer suggestions. My conclusion is that there is some kind of short >> in the electronics in the turbine that only shows up when it is under load, >> i.e. has a battery connection. Suggestions, ideas? >> >> If the turbine is fried I guess I'll be looking for another turbine that >> would work on the 80' tower installation already in place, I know SWWP has >> folded it's tent. >> >> Ron Young >> >> _______________________________________________ >> List sponsored by Home Power magazine >> >> List Address: [email protected] >> >> Change email address & settings: >> http://lists.re-wrenches.org/options.cgi/re-wrenches-re-wrenches.org >> >> List-Archive: >> http://lists.re-wrenches.org/pipermail/re-wrenches-re-wrenches.org >> >> List rules & etiquette: >> www.re-wrenches.org/etiquette.htm >> >> Check out participant bios: >> www.members.re-wrenches.org >> >> > _______________________________________________ > List sponsored by Home Power magazine > > List Address: [email protected] > > Change email address & settings: > http://lists.re-wrenches.org/options.cgi/re-wrenches-re-wrenches.org > > List-Archive: > http://lists.re-wrenches.org/pipermail/re-wrenches-re-wrenches.org > > List rules & etiquette: > www.re-wrenches.org/etiquette.htm > > Check out participant bios: > www.members.re-wrenches.org > _______________________________________________ List sponsored by Home Power magazine List Address: [email protected] Change email address & settings: http://lists.re-wrenches.org/options.cgi/re-wrenches-re-wrenches.org List-Archive: http://lists.re-wrenches.org/pipermail/re-wrenches-re-wrenches.org List rules & etiquette: www.re-wrenches.org/etiquette.htm Check out participant bios: www.members.re-wrenches.org
