Ongata Rongai Nairobi (Site 007)

At
Ongata Rongai February 2004 we installed another WindCruiser CS18TDR
240VAC in another home (Odera's) along Beverly Hills
road. This machine stands on a 40 feet tower above anything else
in that compound and the surrounding. The home has Grid power
which has proven very unreliable. Our 1.5 KVA Inverter is powered
from the battery bank hybrid charged from the wind machine and
the solar power system. The Wind Cruiser has ability to bypass
the inverter and power directly during constant winds. The home
also has a solar circuit already installed for emergency lighting
utilizing 2 x 80 watt solar panel. We have installed a switch
gear for manual selection between the Grid power and Wind Power.
This
machine is air cooled gauze covered. It is able to deliver 300
VAC in a just a breeze. The fiberglass propeller 15 feet diameter
spins easily and gains terrific speed. The tower has 2 sets of
4 guy cables holding it to the ground. It took a 4x4 truck to
hoist the 40 feet tilt-tower from the ground and pulleys to mount
the Wind Cruiser piece by piece.
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