I remember the county historian of Cochise County, AZ having a wind powered battery charging system which supplied all the electric power for her ranch house from the early 1940's until the late '70's. She told me that it came from Sears and it was called a Wind Charger System. The spelling might be "Wynn Charger". The Array of batteries was stored under the kitchen floor and the cases were made of glass with replaceable lead cell plates. I believe the ladie's name was Grace McCool (sic?). She told me she was never without power but one time when the wind powered generator gave out and she had to order a new one from Sears. In the few days she was without wind power, she rented a gas powered generator from the nearby town of Frye or Sierra Vista, AZ to recharge her batteries. All her appliances were DC powered 110 Volt stuff from Sears and Roebuck. According to Ms. McCool, the charger worked fine in a 3 to 5 mph wind. Usually, in her area, the wind speed was greater than that, however. I wonder why we have no such systems today which are that efficient. Ms. McCool's son or sons replaced the system with commercial power. I believe that occurred in the late '70s. I sure would like to have that old system. Maybe it is stored someplace on the ranch if the ranch still exists. Although, I suspect there is a housing development there now. I don't know. I haven't been out there in many years.
