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Originally Posted by Ryland
your real problem is that your wind turbine is putting out around 30 to 100 watts and is going to take a long time to store up enough energy to do any work.
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Totally missed the output - Ryland is correct... it's going to take a substantial amount of time to charge your batteries with that output.
Creating a step down transformer with relay system will charge the battery twice as fast (ignoring losses) when engaged and if you're in a "because I can" type of mood, then by all means go for it.
It probably won't be cost-effective vs starting a 2nd build or (maybe) a build of a higher tower if that's your priority. I'd like to point out though that a "low wind" turbine may not have the alternator characteristics needed to produce more wattage in general though so a higher tower may result in a more constant upper range of 4 amps, but it may or may not go higher than that without furling or (worse) completely burning out.