Below is our Air X 400w 12v wind generator. It's hooked up to a couple of scavenged car batteries. I put it up easily with Aaron's help. I wish I had some deep cycle gel or absorbed glass mat batteries, and a good maybe 3500 watt to 5000 watt inverter. Right now I've got a 200w inverter on it that my brother lent to me, and I use it basically to turn on a couple energy saving lightbulbs.

I messed up my 1500w dc/ac inverter by trying to set it up for remote on/off switching. The Northern Tool inverter came with a remote button (which I lost) that allowed one to reset the inverter if it tripped-- instead of manually flipping the button off and back on again to restart it.
The remote button was connected by a telephone jack and I thought maybe I could just strip the wires off a telephone wire and touch them together or disconnect them to get the same effect. But I was wrong and a bit of smoke curled out.
I should've popped out the on off toggle switch and extended those two wires so the switch could be inside the house. Made sense after the fact. I also tried to start our old fridge with it and it kept shutting the inverter off, which most likely contributed to overheating everything.