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Kestrel 1000
By RobD, Section Wind Posted on Sun Jul 4th, 2004 at 08:11:05 PM MST
A 'nifty' little device

I just picked up one of these and it is the great for checking and setting up my windmills and instruments.

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Re: Kestrel 1000 (3.00 / 0) (#1)
by Ungrounded Lightning Rod on Sun Jul 4th, 2004 at 09:31:27 PM MST
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I think that's the same model I got for the boat (which I've been meaning to take out to the rural site.) Very handy.

Re: Kestrel 1000 (3.00 / 0) (#2)
by dconn on Mon Jul 5th, 2004 at 05:29:05 AM MST
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I have one very similar to this (not with me now so I dont know the make/model - but I had a great deal of trouble trying to calibrate a drag type 3 cup [AAG] anemometer by using the hand held anomometer. I had one person on a long ladder holding the little anemometer at the same height and shouting the figures they were reading on the lcd to another person looking at a notebook screen seeing RPM figures spooling up coming from the cup anemometer. I tried to roughly plot a graph of the viewed wind speed & the RPMs to get the RPM to wind speed ratio but it was madly out and I still (a year or more later?) dont have the AAG anemometer correctly calibrated. I'm sure that both units can read the wind speed fine but that vertical axis [drag?] cup anemometers and horizontal axis [lift?] anemometers much react to gusts differently. Maybe the uni-directional aspect of the hand held units effects readings too.

Derek

Re: Kestrel 1000 (3.00 / 0) (#3)
by Dutch on Mon Jul 5th, 2004 at 08:56:06 AM MST
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Hi Rob,

I tried to reach your website http://www.dsgnspec.com/ but it's gone....

Re: Kestrel 1000 (3.00 / 0) (#4)
by RobD on Mon Jul 5th, 2004 at 07:01:12 PM MST
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Thank you! I corrected it but it may take 24 hours to come back.
RobD

Re: Kestrel 1000 (3.00 / 0) (#5)
by RobD on Mon Jul 5th, 2004 at 08:04:37 PM MST
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I'm using the Kestrel to set up a remote anemometer and so far it has worked really well. I was thinking of putting a wind direction vane on top of it though.

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