Hmm… A quick look at other wind turbine info would suggest that they’ve added an extra nought i.e. the product you have is more likely to be 1400W, not 14kW.
or “not 14kW” 
Now corrected. Thank you 
Set it up and monitor it’s production
Hi. So it is in place and producing electricity. The Volt meter shows today, with a mediocre wind, producing 37v.
Can I come back to say that I already know that the turbine produces electricity.
For me it’s all about how I get the electricity it produces in to the correct ‘format’ that the Zendure batteries will accept. I therefore go back to the specification that Zendure provided (as quoted at the beginning of my post), and find I am still asking, doers anyone cleverer than I understand enough of everything that’s now been written to recommend an inverter or a supplier of inverters I can communicate with?
Hi all. So from a different source I have just been recommended this unit.
DATOUBOSS 48v 220v Pure Sinus 2000W Inverter with Remote Control 2 EU Plug.
Yes it’s a amazon sale but at least with amazon if it’s the wrong product they accept returns without quibble.
My question is, has the recommender of this product got the specification correct?
I ask because he admits he is a little in the dark as his system arrived complete without him having too do much to it. He’s reading labels from his system kit.
No. It’s a stand alone unit/off grid. The “plug” allows you to run an extension lead etc not connect to the grid. That whole type isn’t suitable.
I’ve looked it up & it doesn’t appear to be grid-tied - the specification certainly says nothing to that effect.
If you are doing the sensible thing & using the grid to combine your various power sources (as I outlined above) then you must used a grid tied inverter that complies with the certifications that ENEDIS requires.
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You can produce 37v but what current can you draw, you need a load on the circuit to see what really goes on.
Forgive me. If the turbine is producing 37v to the inverter, surely the inverter then just converts that and gives to the batteries? Are you saying the inverter would put a ‘load’ on the turbine?
As you can see I really don’t understand any of this.
Hi. The example you’ve provided. Is that a ‘plug n play’? I connect the turbine to the input and the output splices in, connects to the cable running between the Consumer Unit and the Batteries, therefore providing the batteries with a type of electricity it is expecting?
The inverters are pretty efficient so no, barely any load, if you connect a load to the inverter you can then measure the current unless the inverter has a screen showing the figures.
Ahh. There in lies the problem. I haven’t bought an inverter yet because I am asking here for someone to recommend the correct inverter I need.
As I doubt you’ll need larger than a 3kw inverter that can handle 24-48v from your turbine but you would have a turbine control module in place similar to a solar MPPT controller to manage the loads but dedicated for a turbine. You’ll probably be ok to take a look on line.
Okay. I am unsure of your statement here. The Turbine already has a controller. It takes in 3 red wires and out puts the positive and negative which is how I am measuring the voltage being produced.
Hi. Thank you for your efforts in assisting me, I really do appreciate your input.
I have been in touch with monkit solaire. Sadly the unit you direct me to is not compatible they tell me. They also say that they do not offer such a solution.
This is proving to be a much greater problem that I could ever have imagined.
Given you have something that claims 14kW but in reality is probably 100W tops it’s not exactly clear what you need.
Spend thousands to meet the claims …..or stick a sacrificial 500W micro inverter in and see if melts. No one will say use our 500 watt inverter when you’ve quoted 14kW.
Your not feeding the battery from the turbine. You need to read what Zendure told you properly. The DC inputs it charges from automatically are full with your solar panels.
What they say is convert your turbine to house mains - wire that correctly back to the house. The Zendure app then allows you to set rules for charging from 240V - but that’s normally to use off peak. The Zendure cannot tell how much power the wind turbine will make or if there’s “excess” from the wind turbine.. The Zendure in normal use knows when the house is using solar - it “knows” if it can charge from the panels or if it needs to help power the house. It cannot tell what the wind turbine is doing. You tell it to charge from the mains
You can’t retro fit a battery controller to work with the Zendure - that’s built into your Zendure. The Zendure is normally sold as plug and play balcony battery - it’s designed to be simple - as I said way back it won’t do what you think.
Voltage - now the voltage controller should give you 48 V not some random value. But volts are utterly meaningless beyond showing it’s doing something when there’s no load. Volts can drop to zero the moment you ask it to work - it’s load voltage . A load is anything that will use power - it’s easy enough if you’ve a multimeter but go YouTube then if you hurt yourself it’s not my fault.
Unless Lumioo pricing has changed a lot - your faffing bodging a 500 euro turbine onto a mind bogglingly expensive but of kit seems out of kilter.
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It was a quick example of a micro inverter - many other brands are available. I’m not sure why they say it’s not compatible - EDIT SEE BELOW.
I guess that takes the three phases from the turbine & converts to 48V DC i.e. some form of rectifier. You then use that DC to either directly charge batteries via a suitable charge controller or convert to single phase AC which van then be connected to the common bus that is the grid, as long as the inverter is grid tied i.e. it synchronises with the grid AC. It also must disconnect in the event of a grid outage in order to prevent your devices back feeding the grid & thus endangering anyone working on an upstream fault.
EDIT: I’ve just asked ChatGPT about the inverter issue - see here.
Is the zendure unit a hybrid inverter that can take input from turbines and/or solar?