Gary Harkins
12/24/2012, Harbour Towne Marina, Muskegon

These are the charge controllers for the wind generator and solar panel. The one on the left is for the wind generator and the one on the right is for the solar panel.

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Gary Harkins
12/24/2012, Harbour Towne Marina, Muskegon

My solar panel and wind generator installation. The combination of these two generating devices allow us to anchor indefinitely without having to run the boat's engine or a gasoline generator. This will add greatly to our circumnavigation of Lake Superior next summer!

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Gary Harkins
09/07/2012, Harbour Towne Marina, Muskegon

Cygnus all tied up in her home slip. The combination of wind generator and solar panel worked beyond all my expectations. Without either one we would have ran the gasoline generator or the boat's engine a dozen times or more during this vacation just for the purpose of charging the batteries. Even with the wind generator by itself, we would have ran the the gas generator or boat engine several times to charge the batteries. With the wind generator and solar panel working together we didn't run either one solely for the purpose of charging the batteries. In fact we didn't run the gas generator for any purpose!!!

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