sbsshaw2

Any One Wired A SkyStream Windmill?

Speedy Petey

This should be interesting. I am curious myself.

frenchelectrican

at least i did look at the website look like future style of windmill anyway http://www.skystreamenergy.com/skystream/product-info/

this link will show what it look like


Merci , Marc

Speedy Petey

There is a windmill directly behind my house, about 1/4 mile into the woods, located at someone's residential property. If I am correct it is at a friend of the family's. I'll have to ask him next time I see him.

This sucker HAS to be 20'-25' in diameter and 70'-80' up there.

MDShunk

Some of the Amish around me use windmills to power their milk tank cooler compressors. Various brands. Not much to them, really. Just a DC generator charging a bank of batteries, with an inverter making 120 or 240 for the connected load. ALL of these windmill systems come with very good instructions, that are easy for an electrician to understand. Windmill power systems are mostly geared toward the DIY, so they're super simple for an electrician.

frenchelectrican

Pete :

I do belive it some sucker are dang huge i know there one about a hour away from my home they have two large windmill unit i think they are about 100 KW size maybe larger i did not get all the info from that place

but i am sure the rotors [ blades ] are at least 50-75 foot in diam so that is huge size wise


anyway i did read the website and it kinda pretty straght foward connection and easy to do it but just make sure the local area where the OP's location is approved

i know some area may required a small red blinking light but i think this windmill is not high enough to require " FAA " lumiaire [ i think it is 250 feet above ground level but not sure if that change as i speaking now]

Merci , Marc

sbsshaw2

Thank You For Inf.

Speedy Petey

I'm not sure if I saw it on the sister site, but did you ever see the images of a wind generation site being installed.
There were many pics of the whole process. From grounding the HUGE bases, to installing the building at each base, to putting up the towers, turbines and blades.
These things are freakin HUGE. I mean scary BIG!

GE has a 3.6 MEGAwatt offshore unit that has a 104 meter diameter rotor! 104 meters!

Speedy Petey

How about a "Magnetically-Levitated Axial Flux Alternator with Programmable Variable Coil Resistance, Vertical Axis Wind Turbine"?

http://www.mag-wind.com/mw1100.php
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2007...nd_vertica.php

brian john

The only thing I know about windmills is they blow. Actually the wind blows and the windmills spin but the first sentence sounds better.

Mountain Electrician

They just put up 28 windmills in Mars Hill, Maine. These windmills are 389 feet tall from the ground to the tip of the blade and together generate about 42 megawatts. There has been quite a bit of controversey concerning them, put they put them up anyway. Lots of noise complaints. They are discussing putting some about 30 miles from my house, and I for one hope they do. Lots of jobs and clean power.

K&R

All I know about them is if they ever call me it better be a lot closer to the 34' height then the 70' height. Ever since I watched a roofer fall from 20' to concrete I have not been fond of heights. It did not help that I was the only one certified in first aid either. He broke or shattered 30 some bones and spent 6 months in the hospital.

frank

A supply company has applied to install windmills about 2 miles from where I live. I understand they will be 350 yds high!!!!!!!!!!!! That's tall.

Here is a the link if windmill turbines are your thing


www.barnburghandharlington.co.uk/localnews.html



Frank

frank

The above link also shows details of the village I live in. So a quick scoot around the site will give you a fair insight into English Village Life.
Brian J. I would think already knows.


Frank

SparksNY

I just recently did the electrical portion of a wind generator installation. It was through Bergey Wind Power. This one was grid connected so the poco was involved. It was a fun project but overall a simple installation. It stood 100' and the blade diameter was 32', it put out 10KW max.