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nice email received:
From: Mike Allen
Subject: Re: A Wind Turbine Recipe Book
Date: 12 April 2013 10:53:18 BST
To: jytteI recieved the book yesterday and when it arrived I thought ‘this isn’t worth £12’.
But how wrong I was once I’d opened the envelope and settled down to read the contents with a cup of coffee. 3 hours later the coffee was stone cold and I was still reading the book.
Loads of info to be getting on with.
I’ll email Hugh when my terbine is up and running with some pics.
Thanks a lot.
Michael.
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Author Archives: hugh
Wind turbine controllers for optimising blade speed
Efficient wind turbine alternators connected directly to batteries do not have the right speed range to make the best use of the blades. Adding a controller that converts the voltage between the windmill and the batteries can improve performance (rather … Continue reading
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Hubert MARIN video en Francais
http://www.consommer-responsable.fr/magazine/article/une-eolienne-dans-son-jardin-0
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Counter program in Visual Basic
Julio Costa <[email protected]> has written a simple program in Visual Basic to help him with the counting of the turns on each of the coils. “Rather than building an electronic counter, I’ve implemented it in software, so if one has … Continue reading
Posted in construction, People
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New ideas from V3
V3 have produced a nice little report from their latest workshop in Holland. “A report of a wind turbine build course run at De Twaalf Ambachten, Holland” can be found here There is a clever system for locating the coils … Continue reading
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Turbine Database
Eirbyte in Ireland have opened a Turbine Database for anyone to join (you have to register) so that we can share details of our wind turbines. Enter your details and send any feedback to Jimmy about how the database can … Continue reading
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Otherpower workshops
Otherpower have been doing a few fun workshops this year. Here is a photo of the benchtesting of a 12 foot diameter turbine’s alternator using Dan’s old Volvo to drive it. See more at the fieldlines discussion board
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Upcoming courses in Washington State
I am teaching a couple of courses in WA at the end of this month. Should be fun! One is a Home Build workshop similar to the one we did last year in this video: The other one is wind … Continue reading
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Video from Nova Scotia (tower and power electronics)
Thanks to Jonathan for this video update of what is going on in Nova Scotia, Canada.
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More photos of CAT 2010 wind turbine workshop
Thanks to Gerard Valls for this nice album of photos from the CAT wind workshop last month when we built a 2.4 metre diameter turbine (and most of a second one too).
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