If i needed a wind turbine to power a pump how many watts will the turbine need to provide?
if i needed to power a pump with these specifications:
1.5hp, 240v, 8a
how many watts would the wind turbine need to supply?
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Answer by Mike1942f
A big one. If you haven't bought the pump, you might look at farm based wind turbine system where the voltage of the wind turbine is directly matched a pump with storage provided by matching batteries.
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1.5 HP is 1119 watts.
The problem is that the wind turbine delivers power only when the wind is above a certain speed. The pump needs power when the pressure gets too low. Totally different requirements, the pump will need power when the wind turbine is not moving, the wind turbine will deliver power when the pump is turned off.
A battery system, consisting of a charge controller, a set of batteries, and an inverter will solve that, but at the cost of a lot of dollars.
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