>It will be very difficult to suppress
>the noise and vibration.
>I do not like roof mounting wind
>turbines on wood structures which tend
>to dampen the noise. With
>a metal mast mounted in the
>trailer hitch, connected to the metal
>frame, it will be worse.
>How much power are you are you
>trying to generate ? The
>air-x doesn't produce 100W until you
>get a windspeed of 17-18 mph.
> I do not know of
>many campsites that get that much
>wind on a regular basis. Even
>if they do, the turbulance generated
>by other motor homes, trees etc
>will reduce it's output.
>Have you considered a solar panel or
>two ?
Sorry for the long silence...
We live near the coast in California and often camp close to the beach, so we do experience significant wind speeds. We also camp in Death Valley in winter, when we usually experience good steady winds. In both of these locations the wind is often good at night, hence my concern about noise and vibration that might keep us awake.
I already have 440 watts of solar panels on the roof. The days when the sun is hidden behind clouds are usually the days when we have plenty of wind, so an Air-X seems like the perfect complement to the solar panels.
I was wndering if some sort of rubber mounting on the hitch, plus a few guy lines to the ground might reduce the transmiited vibration to acceptable levels.
Ralph
