New Weather Station

Today I installed a personal weather station so that I could keep track of the current weather at the Flynn project. Here is the link to that weather station which is uploaded to Wunderground.

Update to the Flynn Project

As of today the wind turbine has produced 103kwh since June 9. She has had to purchase 510kwh from Cherryland Electric and she was able to put 43kwh back on the grid. That is very good considering that we are in a slow down for wind.

Those people that I have spoke to in the past couple of weeks, you need to buy now. I just received an email from dealer and the cost has just went up about $1000.00 a unit. I will honor all quotes until the time listed on the quote that you received from me when I visited the other day. After that I am forced to raise the price to the new level. If I could get five people to purchase one of these units in the next fifteen days I can get a little better deal on shipping and I am willing to pass that saving on to you.

If you wait until next year I feel the price will be through the roof.

Wind Turbine on a boat?

Yes that is correct I now can say I installed a wind turbine on a sail boat. I had received a last week if I could install an Air Breeze on a sail boat out in west bay here in Traverse City. I of coarse said sure. So yesterday I did install and it works great. What it does is charge the batteries up on the boat, because the boat is moored out in the bay there is no shore power. Will you might as well take advantage of all that FREE ENERGY that is just blowing by. I have a supplier of this type of technology so anyone out there with a boat can now have a wind turbine too.

Front Page of the Tuscola County Advertiser

Well I finally hit the big time, front page of the Tuscola County Advertiser. As I posted earlier my dad and I were interviewed by the Advertiser and it came out today. Here is the link to that story.
Tuscola County Advertiser

Tuscola County's first wind turbine is complete

Yesterday I meet with the power company to get their final blessing and of coarse it was not windy. So they have to come back some other day to do their final check. But they did change the meter and told us to leave it on. So as far as I am concerned that is another one done. We also meet with Stacey Tucker from the Tuscola County Advertiser, she came out to do a little interview on my dad's newest venture. So that was exciting. I currently do not have another wind turbine to install as of yet but I am meeting with ten people this next week for estimates for wind turbines. I have potential customer that I already meet with and I think that he will sign the contract for one. So cross my fingers.

Another hurtle over come

Yesterday we received our final electrical inspection for my dad's wind turbine. Tomorrow the power company comes to see what we have installed. This is their first on their system and the first in Tuscola County. Once they come and give their approval we be able to leave it on permanently.

Base is complete

Yesterday we were able get the cage built, anchor bolts in and the base poured full of concrete. I was all so able to get all the wire ran and hooked up to the base and panel. Today we are going to get the pole set in place, the nacelle on, and the gin ready. We are not going to lift pole until Sunday, I want to give that base time to get really hard. Tomorrow the electrical inspector is coming out to check my wiring. So I will have that hurtle out of the way.