Michael writes:
Regarding my wind turbine, what to say. I’am DIY man and it is my hobby. I have weekend house in the mountains approx. 650 meters above sea level and sometimes its pretty windy here. Inspired by Otherpower.com many years ago I told myself why not to build small wind turbine. I bought from you plans sometimes around 2005.
My wind turbine is clone of your’s design: 2.8m diameter, coils modified to start at little bit lower rpm, pole is approx. 18 m high, system is 24V, charging batteries and using produced electricity via inverter. Later on I added PV panels to cover consumption during non windy days. During those approx. 11 years I’am running it I had once problem when during the storm tail felt out and interfere with the blades and now I’am doing some service as the hub bearing became noisy.
Some pictures (btw I like North, moose and reindeer 🙂 )
Hugh Piggott
I hope you don’t mind me contacting you , I did a a course at CAT (Msc REBE) about 2009/ 2010 and I am trying to contact Dr Arthur Butler by Email about a Solar Cooker idea I am working on , Melanie Garton at CAT informs me he is no longer there and she does not have an Email contact address
Kind Regards
Graham Williams
hi
sorry for taking so long but for some reason I do not get notifications of comments on this site. Sorry but I do not know Arthur Butler.
cheers
Hugh