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Roger Brown
The residential wind that you have available is different than everyone else's. In fact, it is different and every specific location around your property. If you are looking into home wind turbine technology, you cannot just assume that because the wind is blowing at your house that you have enough to make a reasonable payback on this kind of project. To do that, you need to get analytical and collect some data. The information you need to analyze on your residential project is wind speeds over a period of time. Usually, 6 to 9 months worth of data is enough to draw a conclusion from. The easiest way to get that data is through an anemometer. An anemometer is simply a tiny wind turbine. The tiny wind turbine collects data and records it in its tiny computer. After you have collected all the residential wind data you can download it to your computer and analyze it for both averages and patterns. This is not a very expensive thing to do, but you do need to do it. It's easy to get on the Internet and find an inexpensive anemometer that will get the job done for under $100. You want the kind that will allow you to push the information to your computer so that you can slice and dice the data and make sense out of each particular location and how strong the wind is there for your project. Once you have that information, you can start to make some conclusions about where you want to place the home wind turbine kit on your site. You should have at least three or four locations scoped out that you might possibly work out okay for a wind turbine. The reason you want to choose one place is, the wind is going to be different and possibly not strong enough for your purposes at different locations. Also, there could be local restrictions like setbacks from your neighbor's property or height limitations that will keep you from putting your residential wind device in a location that would be optimal for power production. So, once you have the data, it's easy to get to work and analyze this just like you would any other home project. In conclusion, the places to locate residential wind systems are not obvious. You need to do your homework and collect some data before you can sort out which are good locations for wind energy production and which are bad locations for energy production.
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