Wind Turbine 1200W DC 12V Wind Generator with 5 Blades Winds Turbine Kit with MPPT Controller for Boats, Gazebos, Chalets, or Mobile Homes

I'd been waiting for a good price on wind turbines, and this one was about $100 less than all the competition so I figured that was worth the gamble. It's been an education in wind power! It says it has a low start up speed of about 6 mph. I've found that to be true for the most part, with a margin of error 1 mph, it usually starts around 7 or so mph. The power kicks on around 9 or 10 mph, tested got 14.7V which is a good standard charging level for 12V batteries. Thing is, 6 or 7 mph is fairly breezy conditions, so we don't have 'em that often :D Also, the charge controller initiates a 'brake' if the turbine spins fast for about 10 seconds, as online videos indicate this is to keep the turbine from going wild and self-destructing. So you get this pulsing 14.7V for ten seconds, then 0V for 5 seconds, then the brake comes off and it spins again. I'd much prefer if there was a governor instead of a brake, to maintain a steady limited top spin speed, rather than stop and go. It Should Be Noted: I have not tested this with a LOAD yet, and perhaps the controller WILL maintain a steady top speed with a load connected. I will update this review if/when I try that. One more thing to mention, the instruction sheet I got was for a slightly different model, and the sheet states that models will vary, but there was basically enough information to do the assembly. You WILL need to engineer a way to attach this to a standing structure/mount. They give you a mounting plate, but what you mount that on is up to you... this seems to apply to most turbine systems, so it's not unique to this one. All in all, the product seems to do all that it advertised, at a pretty good value.

Unless you live in a windy country that has 50 mile an hour wind steady this turbine uses more electricity than it puts out. It drains my battery down more than charge it rendering it useless! I give it two thumbs down 👎👎

Took me awhile to take this out of the box. It was a impulse buy due to liking the solar set up I have been building piece by piece. Used a drill to run the Gen head with controller. It will put the brakes on real quick if you over rev it. Output for mine was solid. Will be nice when I finally get this up on a pole for those cloudy windy winter days.

A friend and I each bought one of these wind turbines. Until today the wind had been intermittent and relatively light. Today the wind has been consistent at 6 to 8 mph with frequent gusts to about 20 mph. We put volt/ohm meters on each and during gusts were seeing over 14 volts. We won't know how well they're actually producing until we live with them for a while and I want to get a better (more informative) controller to get better information. We're in Quartzsite, Arizona and it can get windy here at times. My turbine is at about 10' and I haven't yet gotten guy wires on it but in the current conditions it is doing well on the black iron pipe. We did have to retighten the hub nut on both turbines this afternoon. Hopefully they won't work loose again. From the video you can see mine was turning at fairly high rpms. It is noisy but not as bad as I expected. I think I got my money's worth but time and observation will tell the tale. Addendum: The day after writing this review we had a day, and following night, with consistent 8 to 10 mph winds with gusts to 20 mph. When I went to bed my 400 amp hour battery bank stood at about 80%. The next morning at 10AM it was at 100%. Normally it would take until 2PM or later for the solar panels to take the bank to 100%.

It says 12 V 1200 W. The 1200 W might be for 24 V. But it’s barely 600 for 12 V. I have it up about 30 foot in the open the wind speeds range from 10 to 40 miles an hour. Obviously at lower wind speeds you don’t get as much power but 40 miles an hour. It should push out its max. That being said it does work.

Added this to our solar powered electric gate for those overcast days. It doesn’t take much wind at all to keep it powered. We could probably take down the solar panel and run strictly off of this honestly. Easy to put together, works great, super happy with the quality for the price. High wind or low wind, it’s done its job and seems like it will last a while.

Works great for the price it is

Unless you mount this on top of a mountain or hill or spin it yourself, it will not generate a spark. Waited to long to return it and now it is going in the trash. I live in Kansas and there is enough wind to turn a big turbine, but not this wallet sucker. Mounted on twenty foot pole and would only spin when 30 mile an hour wind gust.