Source
https://www.powerhousewind.co.nz/thinair-wind-turbine/ — original source (opens in a new tab; the file is not redistributed)
Powerhouse Wind Thinair 102 — technical summary (v1.4)
The NZ-made small-wind reference for the m/s→CF conversion (RT_290, option A)
Powerhouse Wind Ltd (Dunedin, NZ), Thinair 102 Technical Summary v1.4. A NZ-designed single-blade small turbine purpose-built for off-grid / remote sites — the locally-relevant reference alongside the internationally-certified Bergey Excel 15 (DS_002).
Summary
Manufacturer technical summary for the Thinair 102, a New Zealand-made ~2 kW single-blade horizontal-axis small-wind turbine (Powerhouse Wind, Dunedin), designed as a component of an off-grid renewable / micro-grid system for remote NZ homes and communities (marae, woolsheds, cell towers, offshore-island power). It publishes the two artefacts the model needs for the D25 wind site-override: a full power curve (power vs wind speed) and a worked annual-energy-vs-mean-windspeed example, so a site’s mean wind speed maps to annual energy and thence a capacity factor.
Key claims
- claim: "Thinair 102 specifications: 'Rotor diameter, area 3.6 m, 10.2m2'; 'Rated electrical power 2000W at 10 m/s at 320 rpm'; 'Operating wind speed cut in 2.5 m/s, rated power at 10 m/s, shut down at 18 m/s'; rotor is a 'fully teetering hub with 1 blade and 2 counterweights at 120°', fixed-pitch, 'Rotor Cp = 0.35'; hub height 11.8 m. NZ-made; recommended retail price NZ$17,100 + GST + freight."
source_location: "Technical Summary v1.4 — Turbine specification / Rotor specification / Tower tables"
- claim: "Power curve (turbine electrical power W by wind-speed bin, m/s): 3->60, 4->124, 5->236, 6->404, 7->652, 8->978, 9->1,399, 10->1,916, 11->2,475 (peak), then furl/controls down to ~2,099 W at 17-20 m/s. Worked annual-energy example: at a 5.0 m/s hub-height average wind (Weibull k=3, C=5.56) the Annual Energy Output is 2,850 kWh/year (~7.8 kWh/day). => derived CF at 5 m/s ~16% (2,850 / (2 kW x 8,760)). (The Powerhouse Wind website separately quotes 3,250-5,200 kWh/yr at 5-6 m/s on other assumptions.)"
source_location: "Technical Summary v1.4 — power-curve / energy-output table (wind-speed bins) and worked AEO example (Average Wind 5 m/s, Weibull k=3)"Neobiome Intelligence relevance
The NZ-made reference turbine for RT_290 — the locally-appropriate machine behind the food/energy model’s wind path, and the answer to “what is actually deployed at this scale in NZ.” Its published power curve, integrated against a Rayleigh distribution at the sampler’s site mean wind speed (method: US DOE, URL_017), yields a site capacity factor for the D25 “#9” override — the missing conversion CR_029 flagged.
At a 5 m/s mean the Thinair gives ~16% CF (its own worked example, at Weibull k=3), consistent with the wiki’s ~10–30% NZ small-wind range (CR_013). Caveats for the model: (1) manufacturer-stated, not independently certified (unlike DS_002); (2) small (~2 kW, single-home scale) — a community would use several or a larger machine; (3) the worked AEO uses Weibull k=3, not the Rayleigh k=2 industry standard, so it is not directly comparable to a certified 5 m/s figure — the model should re-integrate this power curve against a consistent Rayleigh distribution rather than adopt the datasheet’s own AEO; (4) hub height 11.8 m vs the sampler’s ~50 m wind — extrapolate (output ∝ V³).
Research targets
Documents to retrieve
- None new.
Research gaps
- Covered by RT_140 (NZ regional wind-speed layer at hub height to drive this conversion).
Notes
PDF downloaded direct from powerhousewind.co.nz (Technical Summary for Thinair 102 v1.4), authoritative manufacturer document, no AI-retrieval provenance. Power-curve bins and AEO example grep-confirmed via pdftotext. ds_ (tech-datasheet) source.
Connections
Links to
Referenced by
Sources (4): CR_054 · DS_002 · DS_004 · URL_017
EDT domains (1): D01: Renewable Energy & Storage Systems
Technologies (1): community-scale)