I haven't actually used them for camping myself. I have a friend with a 5 th Wheeler. H swears by his but is in the situation where he travels for work and spends some months in a CP so it's a semi permanent set up. Very happy with his set up.

His is from one of the Aussie companies, Bainbridge. I am told there are three different websites for Bainbridge companies so you need the RV and Windpower division.

They are noisy.
Check the output relative to wind speed.
Only large diameter ones are effective.
If the wind is blowing strong enough for them to be effective, you don't want to be there.....

Cheers,
Peter

chopit wrote:

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...... wind & rain for days got me wondering about wind generators.

 

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 Most people underestimate how much they will or might get out of a wind generator by a very large factor.   Even the small ones need quite a constant, high wind speed for nearly all day to get a useful amount of power out of them.   If anywhere in the bush, you typically need to mount the generator several metres about the tallest vegetation to capture the wind.   Wind speed and constancy varies so much between sites that it is very difficult to ever predict how much power you might get out of a wind generator.   Don't be in a rush to lay out the money without a lot more investigation into how useful they might be as a backup or add on to solar.   If you are anywhere near Yamba, NSW, stop into the fish co-op and watch the one mounted there.   The blades don't spin much and that generator is mounted in a pretty ideal situation.

 

Iza

Fit twice as many solar panels as you need and on the bad days you will still get enough power.

Cheers,
Peter

Check out the Rutland 913 on UK websites
One of the best marine wind generators

Allan

I saw some different wind turbines on various RV websites and decided to give it a miss. Most of what I saw were expensive and not big enough for charging my house batteries. The noise factor is pretty important with these devices, I'm told if you want a peaceful sleep you have to lock them down and stop them spinning.

At the end of the day a generator for a few hours will charge this batteries, note I am not an advocate for generators BUT they charge the batteries. We have been on the road 2 years and our solar does all the charging I need. I have never used the genny on the caravan.

Cheers