Some sort of event took out the processor on the Modbus Shunt Monitor. That is a hole blown in the plastic packaging.

New dump load. The six 0.75 ohm resistors on the right are the 24 volt 1.8 kW dump load. The 0.9 ohm resistors on the left are the clipper stop resistors.

Resistor bank as it is being mounted to back of main enclosure.

Pieter Huebner of Bergey maintains a 5kW Bergey Excel. A 10kW Bergey Excel is in the foreground.

A view from just below the peak of the mountain.

View from just below the peak of the mountain.

Dump load all installed. The fan sucks cold air through the eight vents on the side.

December 9th, 2011.

More wind turbines and weather sensors.

More messy wiring. Gel buffered outdoor CAT5e cable becomes brittle below freezing. Was difficult to deal with.

Dawn on December 10th, 2011.

Riding up the mountain on December 10th, 2011.

Dawn on December 10th, 2011.

Dawn on December 10th, 2011.

Newly added AS Richards wind vane.

Inside of the Midnite Classic. Lots of IO on this thing. Ethernet, USB, three RS-232 ports.

Classic taking 114 volts in from the turbine and putting out 30 volts to the battery. Initial guess at a power curve ... will be tweaked over Modbus later.

Standard day on the mountain. 30 MPH winds and 25F.

Thermal label printers don't work very well when it is cold outside.

24 volt turbine and AS Richards wind vane.

Experimental enclosure. The 24 volt turbine output can be switched to this enclosure. There is a Morningstar Tri-Star MPPT running wind tracking code. It charges the 12 volt battery to the right. The Tri-Star on the left acts as a dump load.

Weather sensors and 24 volt turbine.

Cold.

Wires, wires everywhere.

Sensor and power sources wiring inputs.

Bank of Rectifier Stop Switches.

Midnite Clipper wind turbine speed control. Normally housed in an attractive metal case. There wasn't room for that in an enclosure, so it got shrunk and the resistors got moved outside.

Another view to the south.

Interior view, looking south.

It was too cold outside to do proper wire routing. So a lot of wires just got dropped in place. Unfortunately.

A view to the North.

More messy wiring.

Stuff. Lots of stuff. Getting ready to close the box for this trip and head down the mountain.

View to the north.

The revised serial setup. Previously there was a single Moxa UPort 1450 that provided all of the serial ports. Unfortunately, it sometimes crashes. There is now an APRS World "Arlo Watchdog" that will automatically switch the two primary RS-485 busses to a Moxa MGate Modbus / TCP/IP gateway in the event of a bus problem. Further to the right is an 8 port fast Ethernet switch with a four port APRS World "Passive POE Monitor". The Passive POE Monitor allows individual ports power to be turned on or off and for voltage and current to be measured. It also provides over current protection.

Messily installed USB hub (external powered) and FTDI 4-port RS-232 card. Circuit breaker is over current protection for dump load fan.