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.

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.

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.

went up easy,and is working as it is supposed to.i have it hooked up to two 160 amp deep cycle batteries,and it is keeping them fully charged. would recomend this product...came with everything but pole-batteries-and wire..

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!