Where should I be looking if I want to buy my PMA for a VAWT???

[evolvingape]

Hi,

www.windbluepower.com

They sell PMA's in four power ratings for wind to hydro. These are the PMA's I recommended for use in my systems.

They are built on Delco 10si or 12si car alternator bodies and so spare parts are available all over the USA.

They are also cheap! but very good quality. $250 currently up from $199 a year or so ago. Cheapest I could ever find.

Every year they normally run a Christmas special with special discounts so this is the time to buy if you want one. this years has not started yet but may do soon. Ask them

You can buy the rotors and stators separately also as well as all the bits for wind generation.

If you give them a ring they might also custom wind an alternator for you. Worth asking!

Very good company at very good prices.

Hope that helps

[Sprocket]

I was playing with the idea of getting a Manta PMG to play with at one time.  The price put me off - £400-ish in the UK!  It's seems a real beastie though - it can generate over 30amps when shorted just with a very strenuous hand-turn, whereas the specs for "DC-540 PMA" from 'Wind Blue Power', linked to above, can only manage a paltry 15amps at 1000-2000 rpms!

http://www.windgenerator.org.uk/html/manta-pma.html

[nueview]

i had looked at the manta it is a fine generator but here in alaska i was not inclined to the open design any water getting in and freezing would be a serious problem and taking down a windmill at 30 below zero would be no fun at all so the ginlong seemed the better choice for our location but if this is not a problem then i would deffinately use the manta as a substitute.

when i was looking into the ginlong i remember reading that british subjects get some form of rebate from the government for using the ginlong generators you may want to check into this as it could effect your choice as well.
Martin

[Sprocket]

Did you actually get a Ginlong?  If so, how do they stand up to the claims of 7-times more power-out?  I watched a few of the video's 'debunking' them and while it was nice to get a look inside one, I couldn't understand why the debunkers didn't just spin one up with a drill or something and 'prove' the power-out was nothing like was claimed - rather than all the rhetoric about weight and visual comparasions.

I bet they didn't do that 'cos even though it might have shown that the makers were fibbing, it would also have shown that the ginlongs performed considerably better! 

[mercurybird1969]

http://www.hurricanewindpower.com Wind Generators from hurricane wind power  have the lowest cut in which is essential for a VAWT