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Re: [Beyond_cheap_fuel] Wind availability testing - have just ordered a wind resource testing system.

Stuart Billinghurst wrote:

> This still seams very expensive for what is a very simple device (the wind
> speed part anyhow) as all you have to do is count rotations for a given time
> span say 60 seconds and log that result.. Looks like I will have to build
> something, I’ll let people know how I get on.

I guess a fair bit of the cost is the software, which isn't particularly
useful from my point of view as I don't use Windows.

I guess it should be relatively trivial to build something that would
spin in the wind and generate a pulse for each rotation. How would you
calibrate it though?

James





Wed Oct 11, 2006 8:37 am

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Hi all, I have a 'Windsave' wind turbine on order, and the site inspector, is coming over of the 18th to assess weather the house is suitable for mounting it...
clive1471
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Oct 2, 2006
8:54 pm

Just had my visit 10:30 this AM. Looks like it’ll sit about 2mtrs above the guttering on a bracket that has two mounts to the pole and two arms out to...
Stuart Billinghurst
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Oct 3, 2006
12:16 pm

Actually this would be a job for Windsave! They could lend you a house mounted mast for a returnable deposit. I used a Rutland 903 borrowed from a friend. ...
clive1471
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Oct 3, 2006
5:35 pm

Building a small pole isn’t a problem as I have the tools and materials it was just the data logging anemometer I was short of, Maybe I’ll do as you ...
Stuart Billinghurst
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Oct 4, 2006
8:18 am

Hi Gang, I've just sent off for a twin anemometer wind speed logging system from a company called www.windsurvey.co.uk, check out their website. I've gone for...
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Oct 10, 2006
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This still seams very expensive for what is a very simple device (the wind speed part anyhow) as all you have to do is count rotations for a given time span...
Stuart Billinghurst
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Oct 11, 2006
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... I guess a fair bit of the cost is the software, which isn't particularly useful from my point of view as I don't use Windows. I guess it should be...
James Fidell
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Oct 11, 2006
4:25 pm

I plan to do some trials up on the moors in the car with my wind instrument and a hand held wind speed device and work out pulse per min per mph etc etc IF you...
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