Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #44824 in Lawn & Patio
- Brand: GudCraft
- Model: WG400 12V
Features
- Low wind speed model.
- This model starts producing the wind energy just from 5 mph wind.
- This is the latest design with 6 blades.
- Comes with wind charge controller, instruction manual and 1-year warranty from the purchase date.
GudCraft WG400 400 Watt 12-Volt 6-Blade Wind Generator With Charge Controller
Product Description
WG400 GudCraft 400W Wind Generator is a low wind speed, small-size wind generator with starting speed just 5mph or more.
Customer Reviews
Most helpful customer reviews
65 of 69 people found the following review helpful.
By brownieman
The wind generator actually works well. The instructions are a bit fuzzy, for example, "the straight edge of the blade should be to the right when fixed to the hub." Sure it sounds simple enough, but what if you are on the left of the hub? The blades are not straight, they are contoured, so what the hell? I just put it together like I designed it and it has worked fine. I'm guess just a common sense approach to the assembly works best.The charge controller also clicks. I had to contact customer service to confirm this, but a note in the instructions would have been nice to quell my fears of burning the house down when my wife called me to say the controller was clicking.All in all it is a good product. The last tip is to be sure you're able to mount the turbine high enough to make it worth your while. If you can get it 40 plus feet you should be fine.
21 of 25 people found the following review helpful.
By Ben White
Blades will not turn even in strong wind. Self braking mechanism appears to be faulty. Blades are not optimally shaped and are further distorted because of the way they are packed. Rectifier/controller is not very well explained. Waste of my money and I get no help from GudCraft.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful.
By DuncanG
So, nice little unit, pretty solidly built, not too difficult to assmeble (pay attention to which side of the blades the washers fit!).I was unable to find the "welded steel pipe" they reccommend for installation, so ended up uisng 2 inch heavy grade conduit and made an adapter (long, painful story).While the unit claims to be a 400W system, I suspect that's peak under ideal conditions, we have yet to see more than about 10AMPS out of this thing in 30+ MPH winds. However, what we have noticed is that she seems very light in the tail and tends to not keep her nose in the wind. I'm planning to add some mass and area to her tail and will update this review after that. In the meantime:PROS:Excellent price, buck a watt (if you can get all 400...)Easy assemblyVery well builtGreat instructions for adding a brake switchCONS:The controller was worthless, but that's possibly due to the 100A I have coming in from my solar controllers (I just direct connected to my battery bank through a fuse and ammeter)As mentioned, after the 100 hour+ break in period, still not seeing more than half the rated power.At this point, I'd be leery of reccommending this to anyone that isn't 100% aware of what they're buying and has some knowledge of how wind generators work.Stay tuned; I have high hopes for results from improving the tail.
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