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Big Al

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Joined: 06/10/2010
Location: United Kingdom
Posts: 38

Posted: 04:23pm 05 Oct 2010

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G'day. Joined this forum as you guys in the main get on with it and site is full of useful information. You mainly seem to be skilled Hawters and I'm an unskilled Vawter who has just started logging local wind speeds (and solar energy joke -I'm in Scotland ) so I'm a bit out of place but your site very good on electrics and power boosting technology , a lot of which can be applied to vawts.

(How dare you develop this technology without informing the Mother country ? Actually have noticed Americans have a very can-do get on with it Diy attitude , OZ and NZ even more so, and in the UK ,although we used to be good we now rely on bullsh*t from so called experts and buy-it in)

Have scaled down my initial plans -10 megaW from a shoebox size vawt with wind regulation by opening and closing pinholes in the shoebox-to 2.5KW per day from a vawt 2M dia 2M high which looks pretty difficult if not impossible.My solar ambitions ,being in Scotland are 3W per annum ,again pretty difficult.

Will be a lurking member I suspect until I've finished logging wind locally.I ain't building no watermill until I've checked that I've got a river. Once I've done that (I'm braced for disappointment )if I've got a "river" I'll probably get pretty busy asking for advice and opinions although I promise in return to give you all a few laughs by posting photos of my progress. I've got a lot of metal working capability and facilities so who knows ? I might even post something useful.Edited by Big Al 2010-10-07

Big Al

Every Day is a school day (even at 67)

Greenbelt

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Joined: 11/01/2009
Location: United States
Posts: 566

Posted: 09:14pm 05 Oct 2010

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Big Al:
Welcome to the Site, I took it upon myself to act as your host since most of the OZ
Fellows are tucked away in their "beddie by" right now.

You have the attitude to fit in as a member of the Crew. Anxiously waiting for news of a possible River on your Property. Have a good Day.
Be Careful It could be in flood stage.Edited by Greenbelt 2010-10-07

Time has proven that I am blind to the Obvious, some of the above may be True?

VK4AYQ
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Joined: 02/12/2009
Location: Australia
Posts: 2539

Posted: 12:19am 06 Oct 2010

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Hi Big Al

Welcome to the forum, you sound just crazy enough to fit it here. Will be interested in your wind findings as the last time I was in your neck of the woods I decided it was a wet and windy hole of a place, even the pidgens wher getting blown over on the ground, they where walking as it was tooo windy to fly.

All the best

Bob

Foolin Around

Downwind

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Joined: 09/09/2009
Location: Australia
Posts: 2333

Posted: 03:38pm 06 Oct 2010

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I understand you Scots use a kilt to measure wind speed by how high you skirt blows up.

As for a river one would have thought you would know by now, don't it rain 11 months of the year over there and drips of the trees for the 12 month.

Look forward to seeing your creations, but a word of warning if you copy any design from the forum here, remember to reverse the design as your mills spin in the opposite direction being in the northern hemisphere.

Well the water goes down the plug hole the other way over there.

Pete.

Sometimes it just works

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