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The looks of it Chris . Is your whole farm off the grid? I'm only 28 so I have time to buy more tools lol before I die lol
I forgot to add the smiley thing on that last post so I'll put it on this one
No, we got grid power there now so we could hook up the Jake. It's only single phase so we have to run the genset for three-phase power. But we're supposed to get three-phase closer to fall.
I got another Jake 23-10 too but it's still on its tower and I have to get a crane to get it down. It hasn't run for about 20 years because the inverter is blown. It's on an old Jacobs 100 foot angle iron tower, non tilting. When I get it down and back to the shop I'm going to modify that tower for tilting and pull it up with a 40 foot gin like we did the other one. I don't think there's anything wrong with the turbine itself. I released the brake on it and it fired right up and started running, and didn't make any strange noises after sitting there for 20 years not turning.
My crane is supposed to come on Friday morning so we can lay the tower down and I can take it apart and haul it home. The turbine is only 30 miles from our place.
If I was you, that's what I'd do is find a Jake 23-10 that's not running and rebuild it. They're in all 50 states and several countries around the world. There will be one of two reasons why it stopped running - either the inverter is blown or the blades are blown off it. The 70's and early 80's 23-10's had wood blades and very few of those made it 6 or 7 years without blowing the blades off. You'll find them on their tower with just the root stubs left because the blades flexed in high winds and hit the tower. And they got a 1.25" governor. You replace that governor with the new 1.5" (about $3,600) and replace the blades with the new fiberglass ones (about $6,500) and the rotor will last for the rest of your life.
There's several options to replace the inverter with a more modern one. Even if you find a 23-10 with a good inverter because the blades left it, I wouldn't use it. Those old UL508 inverters are junk from the word "go" and the first time the wind blows good it'll blow the two big capacitors out of the static frequency changer, and burn out the big transformer in the upper right of the box.
You can get a new UL1741 inverter from Wind Turbine Industries Corp in Prior Lake, MN. Or I know another guy over by Stillwater, MN that's using an Aurora Power One inverter on a 23-10. Or if you got a savvy Jake man local you can rebuild the old inverter to the 17.5 kW spec and make it stronger so it lasts.
You'd need all your tools (including the big hammers) to rebuild a Jake 23-10 because it requires quite a bit of machine work. If you ever decide to go that route PM me because I know all the tricks of rebuilding one.
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Chris