Customer Reviews

Windmax HY400 500 Watt Max 12-Volt 5-Blade Residential Wind Generator Kit

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This turbine is well built. All around one of the best I have tried for low wind's. There is a video on you tube with what this turbine look's like out of the box. Just search wind max turbine HY-400 on you tube. Power output is excellent for low wind. All around 5 star's. I am a electrician these can be a bit tricky to install and I suggest that you have a electrician wire them for you. The rest of the install can be fairly easy.

I received this turbine in very good condition and fast. I will be setting it up as a hybrid system with my solar array of 350 watts. So my max output will now be 850 watts. I can not speak for the charge controller that comes with this turbine, because I will be using my xantrex c-60 controller instead, with a dump load hot water heater which is already in service. And yes, I did have to purchase a stop switch separately. But all in all, I think this will be a very nice addition to my system. It will cut my generator use considerably. I will also be mounting wind speed/weather station system on my turbine tower.

Well I have given this some time before I wrote this review. I bought 2 of these charging a 10 12v battery bank which feeds my grid tie inverters. I live in North Texas so in my area I don't have a lot of wind. As soon as I released the brake the blades started turning and only stopped for 2 days out of the month. I'm also running 1000w of solar so on a nice cloudy day the turbines pick up the slack for charging my batteries. I am very pleased with my turbines and plan on buying 2 more which will give me a total of 4 along with my solar. Sorry electric company. I'm just tired of paying your high rates.

So I bought this wind turbine for almost $700, and started trying to put everything together when I read in the manual that the setup would not work, unless I bought two additional pieces of equipment that WERE NOT included with the product! BUYER BEWARE! THE PRODUCT BEING SOLD ON THIS PAGE IS NOT A COMPLETE SETUP, and you will have to spend an additional $150 (or more) on exclusive Windmax products to make it work! I'm so thinking about returning this just because I feel like [...] I didn't read anywhere on the product page about how I would need to buy an extra $150 worth of equipment before I could make the product work! I am very upset! Don't waste your money on this, Windmax has already shown that they are not honest. So how can I trust that they were even honest about half of the things this product was supposed to do. Yep, I think I'm gonna return it!