New 6kW wind turbine is award winner for Ampair
An Ampair 6000W x 5.5m turbine on a 10m mast supplying a farmhouse in Berkshire.
AMPAIR, the Berkshire-based company, has just revealed photographs of its sleek new 6000W x 5.5m turbine, the latest in a long line of reliable, rugged and quiet wind generators.
The turbine recently won the prestigious Rushlight Windpower Award 2008 and the company is now accepting orders via its distributors.
The new machine has a rotor diameter of 5.5m and is ideal for supplying power to remote farms or rural houses, telecom systems, public buildings, schools or industrial infrastructure, either offshore or onshore, for 230v grid connection or for 48v battery charging.
Like all Ampair turbines, it is manufactured from high quality marine grade materials, making it particularly suited to remote, coastal or cold-weather applications and in keeping with the company’s quality ethos; it is designed to be compliant with the IEC 61400-2 standard for a Class I turbine, which means it can be easily and safely installed worldwide. It is a fully sealed unit that does not require costly annual servicing.
A range of mast options is available. As with all turbines, more height gives greater power because of the increase in wind speed, so Ampair can supply masts from 10m to 30m in a variety of styles, including monopole or lattice; guyed or unguyed.
The price for the grid-connected 230v system on a 10m mast is £13,500 plus VAT.
Since 1973, Ampair has been recognised as a leader in small wind turbine technology, with over 20,000 units installed worldwide. There are Ampair turbines from the Antarctic to Alaska and the Solent to the Sahara, including some of the harshest environments known to man.
The lessons learned from this continuous history are always incorporated into every generation of the company’s products, ensuring an extremely high ‘return for investment’ level due to reliability and longevity.
The family-owned Ampair is Britain’s oldest wind turbine manufacturer and is proud to be an independent and thriving manufacturer with strong export sales through its network of global distributors.
Additionally, the company prides itself on its after-sales service and boasts that it can still service and maintain units going back over many years, often by the same experienced technicians who manufactured them decades ago.
The new Ampair 6000 fits neatly into a slot in the market that Ampair has been working to fill for several years to satisfy the rising demand for a turbine of this size made to Ampair’s high standards.
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Waste to water drainage
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Aquadyne is converted from virtually any form of plastic – silage wrap to plastic bags, wheelie bins to water bottles – into easily installed blocks of macro and micro porous cells that drain surface water from agricultural fields, sports pitches, golf courses and domestic gardens. “Newcastle University conducted a lifecycle assessment, which concluded that every 200 panels of Aquadyne saves more than two tonnes of carbon emissions,” says James Arrowsmith of Aquadyne Sales & Marketing.
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