Ground for wind gen

[nelsonsmoody]

Hi,
I have a question regarding grounding a wind generator what would be a good source for grounding?
Should I just take the ground and negative tie them together the (neg. battery post) or run to the engine block?
many thanks
Nelson

[By Invitation]

Your ground wire should be connected to your main ground bus bar if you have one. If your boat is large enough to have a wind generator it should also have a ground bus bar somewhere. You can also connect to anything else that is connected to ground but the busbar is the best location.

[AnchorageGuy]

What "ground" are we talking about. Is this the DC ground or are you grounding the generator to the boats bonding system?

[nelsonsmoody]

hooking up a wind gen. 3 wires 1 Pos. 1 neg. 1 ground.
I called the southwest air x tech. support he basically told me I could join the neg. and ground together and hook up to neg. post of battery and the other was to engine block, but advise with someone with marine elect. experience.

[irwinsailor]

I tied mine into the dyna plate , if I did not have the plate I would attach the Green wire to the engine block.

[nelsonsmoody]

Thank you all for the input.
I think I got enough to do the job with sinking it or starting a fire.
Many thanks
Nelson

[MitchM]

i am curious as to how your positive wire from the w/generator into the battery bank is set up -- will the wind gen charge one battery or more ? are you feeding the wind generator positive output thru a voltage regulating system such as the VSR or 'PathWay' into your battery ? or are you manually controlling the input voltage to your batteries ?

[irwinsailor]

My Air X has a built in regulator that takes care of everything. You just run the red wire to the positive terminal Black to the Negative and Green to ships ground. I did install the optional stop switch and amp gauge. It is a very nice setup.

[nelsonsmoody]

Hi Mitch
I have 4 6volts batteries so going directly pos. on the first battery and neg. on the last battery and yes going directly to the batteries Air x as a built in regulator.
Hope that answers your question.

[nelsonsmoody]

Irwinsailor
How is your Air-x on power and quiet enough to be on center cockpit?

[irwinsailor]

I installed it late last season so I don't have much experience with it yet. But from what I can tell so far the sound is not going to bother me very much.

[Badsanta]

Keep us posted. inquiring minds want to know

[Jackstee]

Ok Guy's.
But I do have a small boat, only 26ft and am powered by an outboard. So where the hell do I attach the ground wire. (Will be getting one in September, wind gen that is)

Steve

[By Invitation]

Jackstee,

You must have a battery on this boat if you are putting on a wind generator. Contect the ground to the ground (Neg) terminal of your battery.