I want a system to help in the loading of a windgenerator I am working on.
My proposed design uses an additional small windturbine that will be unloaded and will be used for wind speed readings. Although the wind speed will not be calculated only compared to the speed of the loaded turbine. this is to load the turbine for optimum aerodynamics.
I am thinking a counter that is reset by the freq of the loaded turbine, when the number gets to large PWM loading would reduce the load to keep the blades from stalling, therefore getting the max power from the system.
On the opposite side of the picture to low a number would indicate a need to not load the blades so the turbine will start at lower wind speed.
I am thinking that a PIC controller may do the job, but my last use of such things were a long time ago. what I am wondering is do you know of a proto board populated and ready to go. with USB connections and onboard programming, maybe with built in PWM support. Also a supplier I could contact
My proposed design uses an additional small windturbine that will be unloaded and will be used for wind speed readings. Although the wind speed will not be calculated only compared to the speed of the loaded turbine. this is to load the turbine for optimum aerodynamics.
I am thinking a counter that is reset by the freq of the loaded turbine, when the number gets to large PWM loading would reduce the load to keep the blades from stalling, therefore getting the max power from the system.
On the opposite side of the picture to low a number would indicate a need to not load the blades so the turbine will start at lower wind speed.
I am thinking that a PIC controller may do the job, but my last use of such things were a long time ago. what I am wondering is do you know of a proto board populated and ready to go. with USB connections and onboard programming, maybe with built in PWM support. Also a supplier I could contact