Wind Generator tie-off

I (Jon) finished this job on January 19th.

We have a KISS wind generator. They are made without a charge controller or a self breaking system for heavy winds.  This allows the power production to be higher than other wind generators, but in extremely heavy winds, the blades will not brake, instead they spin freely. This probably isn’t great for the bearings and makes too much noise when sleeping directly under it. KISS generators, when making power, are much quieter than others, but once wind speeds get over 30 knots and the blades start to free rotate, it makes more noise than I enjoy.

So I rigged up a pulley, a cleat and a couple of tie off points and now it’s much easier to tie off the wind generator. The tie off points are located 90 degrees from each other so in any wind direction it is quite easy to tie it off in a direction that stops the blades from rotating.