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RobD

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Kestrel 1000
« on: July 04, 2004, 08:11:05 PM »
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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Ungrounded Lightning Rod

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Re: Kestrel 1000
« Reply #1 on: July 04, 2004, 09:31:27 PM »
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.
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Re: Kestrel 1000
« Reply #2 on: July 05, 2004, 05:29:05 AM »
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.





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Re: Kestrel 1000
« Reply #3 on: July 05, 2004, 08:56:06 AM »
Hi Rob,


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

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RobD

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Re: Kestrel 1000
« Reply #4 on: July 05, 2004, 07:01:12 PM »
Thank you! I corrected it but it may take 24 hours to come back.

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RobD

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Re: Kestrel 1000
« Reply #5 on: July 05, 2004, 08:04:37 PM »
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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