What bothers me the most about the idea of having a wind turbine on a tilting tower is the space occupied by guy wires. If I aim for a tower 80 ft high (which I consider necessary considering the nearby obstacles, i.e. trees), the conventional footprint would be 40 ft on each side plus the space to lower the tower. That is equivalent to 4800 ft2.
My idea would be to make the foot print more linear by removing the side guy wires and making the tower in the form of an « A » with web gussets. Assuming the A frame has a 20 ft base, the foot print would be 1200 ft2 i.e. 4 times less than conventional tilt up tower.
Here is a drawing of the concept:

I haven't designed nor calculated loads and pipe sizing and I understand piping is usually more expensive than guy wires but I may have found some cheap pipes that shall be handy (will post later about this potential finding). The pivot bases will need to be quite beefy too.
Anyone has any experience with this type of tower? Is it a good idea?
Martin |
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