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Posted by Ron Rosenfeld on February 25, 2009, 3:45 pm
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On Wed, 25 Feb 2009 11:36:39 -0600, david.williams@bayman.org (David
Williams) wrote:
>We're all out to lunch. The turbine blades will hit the guy wires.
>That's why commercial wind-turbines have unguyed towers. I suppose
>there could be guys right down near the bottom of the tower, lower than
>the blades go, but they wouldn't be much good.
Well, that depends on the sizes. Although I agree that the large
commercial turbines, that I've seen, are all on unguyed towers.
My Bergey-XL is on a guyed lattice tower, though. It has a 7m diameter
rotor; it's on a 30m tower, with two sets of three guys -- one at 27 m, and
the second at 14.8m.
--ron
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