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Question by dragon_slayer79:
Will running a homemade wind turbine without a load injured it?
I’m in the process of building my first wind turbine and was curious if running it without a load (ie. battery bank) would be harmful to the generators? I am using a 260VDC 5A permanent magnet treadmill motor as the generator. I am about ready to put up my tower and was not sure if I can go ahead and get it all assembled and put up and then add the battery bank as soon as I can get the batteries. This way I could also see how well it’s going to perform on the tower. It’s a 60′ lattice tower and will be hinged at the bottom but still will be a bit of a pain to lower and raise a lot. I am really excited about getting this up and running but do not want to damage anything before I even get started.

Also I have heard of people using old electric baseboard heaters as a load dump when the bank gets fully charged. I am having some trouble locating any of these around here and was wondering if anyone would have any other recommendations on something I could use as a dump? Thanks for all your time.

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