Wind turbine/generator

[claymore]

Does anybody know who makes those spinning tubular gizmos - rather than the ones with blades - someone said they might be quieter than the conventional blade jobbies.

[sahona]

Don't think they've any more power than a dynohub... but at least they're small enough to be mounted in the spreader area where there will be less noise transmitted to the master stateroom.

[claymore]

That was my thinking
Dont want to find myself trying to keep up with some form of rhythm.
Not a catholic either.

[Nick]

Our Aerogen is almost silent and puts a useful amount of juice into the batteries.

[claymore]

Someone suggested that if I fitted one to my radar structure thingy, It might transmit every whirr into the master fornicatorium...

[sahona]

Whirring noises in the aft fornicatorium should never be from above. It's a rule. RTFMFFS

[Bodach na mara]

To answer the original question, I seem to remember Forgen made one. And as Sahona has pointed out, the reviews in PBO and other mags showed that it produced almost no useful power.

[Shuggy]

I used to have a Forgen on the mizzen mast of my Miller Fifer. Brilliant for topping up batteries between weekends. Maximum charge current witnessed by me was 1.2 A so pretty minimal but I thought it was excellent. However, we only had one house battery and other than a tiny chartplotter and a couple of lights nothing electric to speak of.