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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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Category Archives: Scoraig
Windtracker test update
An update 2 years on for my post on the Windtracker by Logic energy. I put one of these windtrackers on a windmill tower (the Kestrel tower actually http://scoraigwind.co.uk/?s=kestrel which is the right hand end one in the above photo) … Continue reading
Posted in power curve data, products/technical, Scoraig
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Build your own windmill workshop course on Scoraig April 26th
I am planning to hold a course here on Scoraig at the end of April. We’ll build and test a wind turbine as usual. Accommodation is provided from Saturday 26th April to Saturday 3rd May. These will be the arrival … Continue reading
Posted in construction, courses, Scoraig
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Power curve data for 3 metre recipe turbine on Scoraig
I have been using a Mobile Logger from Logic Energy to collect data on a 3 metre diameter turbine close to my house. The turbine is built to the Recipe Book. In the gallery you can see the site and … Continue reading
Posted in construction, power curve data, Scoraig
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LOCALLY MANUFACTURED SMALL WIND TURBINES – HOW DO THEY COMPARE TO COMMERCIAL MACHINES?
PhD_Seminar_2013_FullPaper_Sumanik-Leary FINAL Above is a link to a paper by Jon Sumanik-Leary in which he uses a study of a Scoraig power system (with 3 metre diameter recipe turbine) to compare with a Bergey wind turbine. Annual energy production is … Continue reading
Posted in People, power curve data, Scoraig
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photos of workshop course Scoraig April 2013
date: 20-27 APRIL Location: Scoraig 4 participants built a 2 metre ferrite turbine (2F) for 24-v battery charging. Also balanced and fitted some 3 metre blades to last year’s 3 metre ferrite turbine. Photo sequence is a bit random sorry. … Continue reading
Posted in construction, courses, ferrite magnets, Scoraig
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Another video of last year’s workshop on Scoraig!
This video has just been published on Youtube. This time it was by Kern Jamieson, the artist who did the zebra tail vane. Thanks, Kern!
Posted in construction, courses, Scoraig, Video links
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Scoraig Wind Turbine Building Workshop April 2013
I am holding a workshop from 20th to 27th April here on Scoraig. All welcome. No special skills required. Accommodation is provided. Saturday 20th is a traveling day and we will meet participants off the Westerbus that leaves Inverness at … Continue reading
Posted in construction, courses, Scoraig
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Power curve measurements on Scoraig
Together with Jon Sumanik-Leary (E-Futures PhD Student at University of Sheffield) we’ve been measuring the power/windspeed performance of some of the turbines on Scoraig. The results aren’t always what I expect but they are interesting. There’s an article about it … Continue reading
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Photos of the Scoraig wind turbine building workshop
Participants: 6 (Robert, Jonathan, Kostas, Benji, Yanti and Kern) Dates: 5-12 May 2012 Location: Scoraig. Project: 3 metre machine using ferrite/ceramic magnets at 24VDC Poles: 10, (3 magnet blocks 50 x 50 x 20 per pole) Coils: 12 (37 turns … Continue reading
Posted in construction, courses, ferrite magnets, my own projects, Scoraig
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Power curve measurements from Comet-me
Noam Dotan at Comet-me in Palestine (Community, Energy and Technology in the Middle East) has been sending me some interesting data from the 4.2 m diameter turbines that they build. The design is based on the recipe but they use … Continue reading
Posted in CometME, products/technical, Scoraig
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