This is the pump
house
building. It contains the water tanks and pumping apparatus
for
the park. It also contains the inverter for the Bergey
turbine.
First we
installed the transmitter to the south side of the building with the
small antenna towards the east, where our receiver will be.
Next we
installed the electronics to send the kWh signal to our
transmitter. We piggybacked it onto the kWh meter.
Since
these units are primarily signaling and low voltage, we decided a large
box was unnecessary.
We drilled
through the brick to run our two wires, one is our anemometer input,
the other is the kWh input. Prior to the photo we sealed the
penetration with foam sealant.
On our Bergey
turbine tower, we installed the Davis anemometer and ran the wires to
the Davis transmitter.
We
lowered one of the park
lights to install our repeater between the pump house and main
building. This repeater runs on solar and battery power only
and
does not connect to the 120v lighting.