Your Questions About Wind Generators For Home
Linda asks…
Does anyone know of any companys that are willing to donate money to college students for projects?
I am Secretary of the Applied Engineering Club at San Jose State University and we are currently working on placing a full size wind generator behind the home of a low income woman in San Jose, Ca.
If anyone knows of any companies that we could get in contact with that may be willing to help us out with this project that would be awesome!
admin answers:
Well I have just passed legislation that will enable students to receive funds directly from these companies that hopefully will increase interest in projects around the country.
Hope this helps,
George
Susan asks…
How do you determine a house’s hourly electrical demand?
How would you compute the amp/watt demand by the hour for a house wired 110/120 volt? Looking to install a wind generator for the retirement home and would like to be off the grid. House would have basically all modern appliances, air and heat plus would probably run a pump for the well. More than likely there would also be a couple out buildings to be powered.
Thank you.
admin answers:
You can survey your house and determine the volt-amps (watts) of all the stuff then convert that to kilowatts. Then estimate the time cycles of the frig, the tv computer lights convert that to hours and add it all up. Ex: A 120VAC fridge has a name plate that indicated it pulls 3.7 A. That means 120*3.7 = 444W = .444 kw. If it cycles on and off on average every 15 min (.25 hr) it used .444 kW * .25 hr =111kw-hr. Do that for the TV compoyer lights everything. That will put you in the ball park.
Or You can buy these nice devices that you plug into and that plugs into the wall and measures the amps and totals the kilowatt-hours for any device. Just plug it in and come back later and see what it reads. Go through that for everything and add it all up.
But realistically, the best way is to go to your electrical meter every night at the same time and record the kilowatt hours. The meter totals so subtract today’s reading from yesterdays to get what you consumed the past day. Do this for some time and get an average. Your electrical bill will also have all this information as they read the meter too. So read it and check out how it varies with the season.
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