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KarlJ

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Posted: 11:25am 14 Oct 2011

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Saw three Westwind turbines on the ground sitting on their dedicated stands
in Exmouth WA.
Inverters say 20kW grid tied (each)

Looks like 30m towers (which were awesome) gin poles etc etc.

Looks like they have been brought down for something or other and never fixed and put back up.

Talked to as many locals as I could and the guy I stayed with has been there six years and never seen them up hence....

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I'd like to get together a team of interested parties, get onto the owners of them
(they are on the side of the road, complete with inverters, dump loads and they own transformer to the grid)

Any info appreciated (or volunteers to salvage or fix)

Luck favours the well prepared

smithy
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Posted: 12:16pm 14 Oct 2011

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I live down the road... doh 700km down the road.

Did you take any photo's

Could have been knocked around by a cyclone.. plenty of them up there.Edited by smithy 2011-10-15

"The answer my friend is blowing in the wind, the answer is blowing in the wind" Bob Dylan

brucedownunder2
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Posted: 10:23pm 14 Oct 2011

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Hi Karl ,, were these out at the base of the lighthouse ?.

Been retired for 7 years now ,but was in exmouth just before that on the military sites -they may have put some in ,as I remember we had trouble running out of diesel for the remote microwave sites ..

Bruce.

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KarlJ

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Posted: 10:54pm 14 Oct 2011

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yep base of the lighthouse took some pics

FYI no chance of any help fixing the controllers
Advanced ENergy Edited by KarlJ 2011-10-16

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brucedownunder2
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Posted: 11:18pm 14 Oct 2011

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Gee, they would have been no more than a couple years old ---

In my extensive outback travels during my working life ,,,I am amazed how much valvuable machinery and what appears to be faultless stuff just discarded ..

I guess it's why the world is in such a mess today --- scrap it ,the people will pay for it ,don't worry..

oh well ,,,

Bruce

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