First carved blades

[wpowokal]

Decided to get serious about making a set of my own wooden blades for a TDM. So plugged in 500rpm 300w into the program and came up with 2.07m diamiter.

Swopping the chain saw for a hand saw but still making full use of the power planer and belt sander, this happened.

Put them up on the test tower 20' in a mild sea breze (its as calm as a lilly pond this morning of course) but did see 5 amps in that mild breze.

They are made from 150 x 38 mm local pine, weigh in at just over 1 kg/blade, the timber was not as wide or thick as the program called for but they start easy. In three days when the wind returns I should see some interesting results.

regards Allan

[wpowokal]

I give up, in Mozilla this pic was just right in stupid windows its way tooo big.

allan

[picmacmillan]

allan......i had a post about making the photo's smaller, not sure if it can help you, but if so, it is there..... big pictures are better than no pictures...pickster

[Flying Z]

The picture looks good to me, loaded fast too. Thats what counts!!! (I have dial-up)

[rotornuts]

I have a dial-up a 200mhz pentium and use mozillia. Mozillia saves the day. The picture looks good and I second the gratitude about the load speed.

BTW - the blades look nice as well! I'm still not sure I'm sold on big fat hubs for a few diff. reasons and I don't expect it will bother your overall performance much - Just the startup somewhat.

[rotornuts]

By hub I mean blade root.

[wpowokal]

Yes I don't believe the lack of width at root is making much difference, they start well and come up to speed quickly. Did some more static ballancing today with pleasing results.

Can't wait until the strong o/n winds return as the days warm up.

Allan

[TomW]

Allan;

Did you by chance remove the width tag the insert image puts on them?

I added it back in for the poor M$ users.

Firefox and Mozilla auto size to fit in my experience anyway.

BTW, bravo, nice looking blades. Should help with that power needs bottom line.

Cheers.

TomW

[wpowokal]

Hi Tom,

       No, I left the tags in, its just very annoying I know wide posts are a pain in the bum and here I am creating one.

No wind again today.

regards Allan

[K3CZ]

I can only add to the accolades about the good looking blade assembly. It looks aerodynamically sound, and mechanically sturdy, and you are already getting encouraging data.  I don't know what the others' problems are in the photo screen appearance, but with plain old Windows 98, the photo pops up fast on my dial-up connection, and fits the CRT screen aspect ratio nicely.                K3CZ

[Norm]

 I guess big pics are what you get when you have a good camera...mine is an older one that puts out 640 x 480 pixels ....and with the program that came with the camera I shrink them 50% before I post them. Ah well no sense sweatin' the small stuff!

               Have Fun!

               ( :>) Norm.

[wpowokal]

Norm, so size does matter!