Wind Generators

[Nick]

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We have an Aerogen4 which was on the boat when we got it. It keeps up with everything including night sails if it is reasonably breezy. (We don't have a fridge tho')

[Daveanmucker]

I fitted an Aerogen 4 a year or two ago and its been a superb bit o kit, I found that sailing single handed a lot and using the auto helm a bit, that I sometimes had to leave it off when sailing a longish passage, they do use a bit of juice especially on a heavy helm like a Victoria.

The Aerogen solved this problem.

[sahona]

Had an aquagen 100 with wind kit and found it lacking, 8 amps max.
These and other smaller windmills are OK if you live in the roaring 40s but most of us try to choose quiet anchorages, so you will get less amps for less time.
Get the most powerful you can give boat-room to.

[Sam_steele]

We have a duogen d400. They are expensive I think all in with regulator, it was £1000, but very good. Much quieter than the AirX marine we had before, which always sounded like we had an helicopter landing. the d400 starts generating at about 6 knots of wind and at 15 knots we get about 3.5 amps. We fitted it before we sailed round britain 2 years ago and it did mean that we were electricial independant and could anchor quite a bit (and we have a fridge).