1.（-Safety-）: 5-leaf double-axis vertical blade design, which looks like a Red lantern. Safety factor is high due to blades be fixed inside by a flange, then not risk of blade falling off.
2.（-High Wind Energy Utilization-）: Wind blades adopt reinforced fiber nylon which more durable and strong ability of Anti-wind. Especially with optimized aerodynamic shape and structural design, has a High wind energy utilization. Wind turbine can start by breeze and adapt to 360° wind, no yaw system is needed.
3. (-Quietly-): The vertical wind turbine is quieter than horizontal axis turbine. Double bearings make it more stable and not easy to shake when wind generator is running. Silent rotation, suitable for home, boat, marine, monitoring use, solar and wind hybrid street lighting system.
4. (-Excellent Generator-): Permanent magnet three-phase alternating current can reduce the resistance torque of wind generator effectively. Also make the wind wheel and the generator matching better and then running more reliability.
5. (-Installation convenience-): Vertical axis wind turbine can use a screw pile foundation. It is a cost reduction and easy&quick installation compare with concrete foundation installation. Screw pile foundation can be fully recycled at the end of life. An environmentally friendly and low carbon emission way.
Additional information
Product Dimensions
23.4 x 17.3 x 12 inches
Item Weight
24.2 pounds
Manufacturer
PIKASOLA
8 reviews for Pikasola Wind Turbine 200W max 220W 12V 5 Blade Wind Vertical Axis Generator 3 Phase AC Permanent Magnet Generator Wind Turbine Kit with Controller…
Rated 5 out of 5
Ken and Sherry –
Not designed to run your whole house. This is a “ float charger” for your system. We have solar panels charging eight golf cart batteries wired as 12 volts and an inverter to 110 ac. Works great and this turbine charges night and day as a supplement. Their customer service is absolutely top notch, instantly answering questions and providing answers. Plus we get compliments on the great appearance of this turbine!
Rated 1 out of 5
James mcgraw –
Doesn’t take much wind to start it up. But it does not charge my batteries at all. Even in a strong wind this thing would not even charge a phone.
Rated 3 out of 5
DAVE –
Did not come with all parts to assemble, was missing flat washers or plate that goes on top of blades to help hold down. Have not had enough wind to see it it works yet. Looks cool though. Will update when we get some wind and/or missing parts.
Rated 3 out of 5
Extensive dabbler –
This 200 watt generator was going to augment my home solar generators. I wanted to learn from it the same way I learned by building my solar generators – some portable, some not so portable.
One of my solar generators has 2-100 watt LiFePo batteries, 400 watts of solar panels, 40 amp solar controller and a few other items. It can stand on on its own for limited emergency power (refrigerator). Other solar generators provide backup power for internet connectivity, smartphone recharge, a couple of LED lights – some other stuff). Cloudy days or when the smoke (we live in California) is so thick sunlight is severely curtailed and at night, solar electrical production is not quite there and recharging falls short.
Enter this wind turbine generator. 200 watts is not going to make/break anything, but it was expected to teach me.
The weight of this 200 watt wind turbine with the blades installed is about 23 pounds. For round numbers, let’s say 25 pounds – a separate pole mount would easily get us there. Issue 1: Securely pole mounting this wind turbine in a corner of the backyard would be interesting.
Issue 2: Run electrical conduit from this wind-turbine to the solar generator location nearer the house. The conduit needs to carry appropriately-gauge electrical wiring to connect the wind turbine to its controller. As with the solar panels, the controller will be located near the storage batteries. Update 11/4/2020: There is a hybrid wind turbine + solar panel controller available from Pikasola – additional expense, good that it is MPPT. Can’t find the amp-rating as with the solar controllers I have used (Renogy).
The suggested installation height “should be 20 feet higher than the top of the nearest obstruction”… house, shed, trees, hill, etc. and should be “located 10 times the height of the building” away from that obstruction. Issue 3: I don’t know about your neighborhood, but the houses in suburbs I know don’t have this much room. The above two issues have pushed me to make this “kinetic art” project that happens to generate a small bit of electricity. It will be installed on a 9 foot steel pole sunk in a 18 inches square x 3 foot deep hole filled with concrete. That will give me a 9 feet of pole above ground/concrete + 2 feet for the turbine gets to 11 feet tall. No guy wires needed. There will be a much shorter conduit run (closer to the house and generator) as it won’t have to run the length of the backyard. (11/4/2020: I updated the size of the concrete block/mount from 1 foot square to 18 inches square and will use a hinged wind turbine pole mount rather than sink the pole into the concrete. This will make maintenance – if any is needed – easier. That means the pole needs to be shorter so is now 9 feet instead of 12 feet tall.)
Now I know why the manufacturer does not include installation requirements on the product page. I really should have thought this through. I can still return the purchases – but am even more curious.
Issue 4: There is no “support infrastructure” in place like the armies of solar panel installers and the small panel installation I did on the back porch “roof” for the solar generator was easy for me to do…
Hindsight being 20/20, here we are. I’ll try to remember to update this post after installation. At this point, I can say the wind-turbine and blades look cool… in the box. The fit/finish on the wind turbine is good. I hope the update includes wind-speed needed to get to 200 watt (if that makes sense) output. This wind-turbine was shipped with a small and lightweight handheld anemometer. I have no way to know how accurate it is with wind speed until I am able to calibrate it with a known, accurate device – the anemometer part of it is accurate.
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Update 4/22/2021: Ultimately – and recently – I decided against installing this. I am well outside the return period. The above issues not withstanding, I normally don’t “give up” on these sorts of science-project activities. In this case, the already incurred expense for the turbine, hybrid wind/solar controller, dump, mounting flange, hinged base pole-mount, a few other items all totaling about $800 pushed me to follow through. In the end, loss of the backyard space for limited return played against it. At least I did not install the concrete foot for mounting and did not buy a couple of sacks on concrete before giving up… An expensive mistake on my part. The purchased items will be donated to a local school interested in learning to understand alternative power generation methods. I’ll probably include a couple of other items (2″ diameter 8-12 foot steel pole, solar panel, 100 amp hour 12v storage battery, cables and battery storage, etc.) to make a complete “power storage system”, installation guidance and follow-on “support” if needed.
I will provide another update if/when this is ever installed somewhere.
Rated 5 out of 5
AmazonCustomer –
I take this as a second power source for my battery. It works well until now. Especially for customer service is pretty good, seller will answer your questions in quicky and efficiency
Rated 2 out of 5
Mulligann –
Wings are not sturdy. Item received was missing parts and had been returned. All parts weee just thrown in a box.
Rated 5 out of 5
Malleyn75 –
customer service for this device was outstanding he took care of my problem quickly and easily.
Rated 1 out of 5
John –
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Looks nice and cool. Many neighbors asked about it. Installed 2 weeks ago waiting for strong to see if it works. Today 24mph winds, see it spin in video but still no power to charge my 206Wh test battery setup! Like several over reviewers say did work, no power only looks cool!
After above review I decided to contact customer service. Excellent quick response. Could not troubleshoot to correct problem so offered full refund and suggest I go with their propeller wind generator design which has 4-star reviews and 2x power at 400W for the same price. I will try the 400W propeller design and update after the holidays. They need to provide technical troubleshooting instructions or commissioning steps and checks using a multimeter to verify performance.
Ken and Sherry –
Not designed to run your whole house. This is a “ float charger” for your system. We have solar panels charging eight golf cart batteries wired as 12 volts and an inverter to 110 ac. Works great and this turbine charges night and day as a supplement.
Their customer service is absolutely top notch, instantly answering questions and providing answers.
Plus we get compliments on the great appearance of this turbine!
James mcgraw –
Doesn’t take much wind to start it up. But it does not charge my batteries at all. Even in a strong wind this thing would not even charge a phone.
DAVE –
Did not come with all parts to assemble, was missing flat washers or plate that goes on top of blades to help hold down. Have not had enough wind to see it it works yet. Looks cool though. Will update when we get some wind and/or missing parts.
Extensive dabbler –
This 200 watt generator was going to augment my home solar generators. I wanted to learn from it the same way I learned by building my solar generators – some portable, some not so portable.
One of my solar generators has 2-100 watt LiFePo batteries, 400 watts of solar panels, 40 amp solar controller and a few other items. It can stand on on its own for limited emergency power (refrigerator). Other solar generators provide backup power for internet connectivity, smartphone recharge, a couple of LED lights – some other stuff). Cloudy days or when the smoke (we live in California) is so thick sunlight is severely curtailed and at night, solar electrical production is not quite there and recharging falls short.
Enter this wind turbine generator. 200 watts is not going to make/break anything, but it was expected to teach me.
The weight of this 200 watt wind turbine with the blades installed is about 23 pounds. For round numbers, let’s say 25 pounds – a separate pole mount would easily get us there. Issue 1: Securely pole mounting this wind turbine in a corner of the backyard would be interesting.
Issue 2: Run electrical conduit from this wind-turbine to the solar generator location nearer the house. The conduit needs to carry appropriately-gauge electrical wiring to connect the wind turbine to its controller. As with the solar panels, the controller will be located near the storage batteries. Update 11/4/2020: There is a hybrid wind turbine + solar panel controller available from Pikasola – additional expense, good that it is MPPT. Can’t find the amp-rating as with the solar controllers I have used (Renogy).
The suggested installation height “should be 20 feet higher than the top of the nearest obstruction”… house, shed, trees, hill, etc. and should be “located 10 times the height of the building” away from that obstruction. Issue 3: I don’t know about your neighborhood, but the houses in suburbs I know don’t have this much room.
The above two issues have pushed me to make this “kinetic art” project that happens to generate a small bit of electricity. It will be installed on a 9 foot steel pole sunk in a 18 inches square x 3 foot deep hole filled with concrete. That will give me a 9 feet of pole above ground/concrete + 2 feet for the turbine gets to 11 feet tall. No guy wires needed. There will be a much shorter conduit run (closer to the house and generator) as it won’t have to run the length of the backyard. (11/4/2020: I updated the size of the concrete block/mount from 1 foot square to 18 inches square and will use a hinged wind turbine pole mount rather than sink the pole into the concrete. This will make maintenance – if any is needed – easier. That means the pole needs to be shorter so is now 9 feet instead of 12 feet tall.)
Now I know why the manufacturer does not include installation requirements on the product page. I really should have thought this through. I can still return the purchases – but am even more curious.
Issue 4: There is no “support infrastructure” in place like the armies of solar panel installers and the small panel installation I did on the back porch “roof” for the solar generator was easy for me to do…
Hindsight being 20/20, here we are. I’ll try to remember to update this post after installation. At this point, I can say the wind-turbine and blades look cool… in the box. The fit/finish on the wind turbine is good. I hope the update includes wind-speed needed to get to 200 watt (if that makes sense) output. This wind-turbine was shipped with a small and lightweight handheld anemometer. I have no way to know how accurate it is with wind speed until I am able to calibrate it with a known, accurate device – the anemometer part of it is accurate.
+++
Update 4/22/2021: Ultimately – and recently – I decided against installing this. I am well outside the return period. The above issues not withstanding, I normally don’t “give up” on these sorts of science-project activities. In this case, the already incurred expense for the turbine, hybrid wind/solar controller, dump, mounting flange, hinged base pole-mount, a few other items all totaling about $800 pushed me to follow through. In the end, loss of the backyard space for limited return played against it. At least I did not install the concrete foot for mounting and did not buy a couple of sacks on concrete before giving up… An expensive mistake on my part. The purchased items will be donated to a local school interested in learning to understand alternative power generation methods. I’ll probably include a couple of other items (2″ diameter 8-12 foot steel pole, solar panel, 100 amp hour 12v storage battery, cables and battery storage, etc.) to make a complete “power storage system”, installation guidance and follow-on “support” if needed.
I will provide another update if/when this is ever installed somewhere.
AmazonCustomer –
I take this as a second power source for my battery. It works well until now.
Especially for customer service is pretty good, seller will answer your questions in quicky and efficiency
Mulligann –
Wings are not sturdy. Item received was missing parts and had been returned. All parts weee just thrown in a box.
Malleyn75 –
customer service for this device was outstanding he took care of my problem quickly and easily.
John –
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Looks nice and cool. Many neighbors asked about it. Installed 2 weeks ago waiting for strong to see if it works. Today 24mph winds, see it spin in video but still no power to charge my 206Wh test battery setup! Like several over reviewers say did work, no power only looks cool!
After above review I decided to contact customer service. Excellent quick response. Could not troubleshoot to correct problem so offered full refund and suggest I go with their propeller wind generator design which has 4-star reviews and 2x power at 400W for the same price. I will try the 400W propeller design and update after the holidays. They need to provide technical troubleshooting instructions or commissioning steps and checks using a multimeter to verify performance.