Wind power

As long as the controllers can be set alike, there should be no issues. I run up to to 3 identical controllers and others have run two different controllers with matching settings.

Wind power can be fairly noisy. What system are you looking at?

You can hook up as many controllers as you can afford.. HOWEVER, the one with the highest VOLTAGE out is the only one that will work.

With your combination of Solar and Wind, which one is highest may depends on time of day (At night I'd suspect the windy one) and weather conditions (High v/s no wind)

I hooked up a sunforce 600 and it does not make that much noise. I have not hooked the system to the batteries yet as I was wondering about the controller issue. I have a breaker box so I can shut down either one I want. I will use the wind power at night to run fans or heat witch ever I need. I have all the power I need during the day with my solar power, it is at night I am lacking.

ironworker025 wrote:
I hooked up a sunforce 600 and it does not make that much noise.... I have all the power I need during the day with my solar power, it is at night I am lacking.

If it doesn't make noise then it may not be providing that much power.

Sounds like you're not letting solar charge your batteries. Most of us get through the night on battery.

What was the windspeed when you checked the noise?
- At low wind speeds, most don't make much noise but they also don't put out much power (low enough that it likely isn't worth the trouble).
- At high wind speeds, they put out a lot of power but most are noisy and transmit vibration into the RV.

I checked the noise at wind speed of at least 25 mph or maybe a little more and yes it did make a hissing sound but not very loud. I have great solar power at night if I just want to run lights and a little tv but when it comes to the blower motor on the furnace all night or the fans to have a breeze coming in the windows then the batt. will not handle it. I camp on the beach most of the time so there is all ways breeze.

I think you need more battery.

I can understand using the wind power to run things at night. We do that with our solar when the sun shines. That leaves us with a limitation though. Our banks can't handle the big loads like the microwave without the solar boost. So when it is cloudy we either don't use the big items or need the generator.

So if you are going to NEED the wind power to make it through the night, you are going to run out of power when it is calm. I agree with more battery and let the solar recharge it during the day. Adding wind power may be beneficial but I wouldn't depend on it.

Hi,

How many amp-hours of battery bank do you have? How old are they?