Hello..I've been a member here for while and have been doing a lot of reading over the last while and it's great to see the amount of information posted on here available to look though for free.
So a bit about myself, I'm currently completing a degree in Electrical/Control engineering. Oh great I hear you say..another person all theory quoting electrical knowledge learned from a textbook! One advantage is having access to a library of nice expensive books on wind turbine design.
Before that I completed a four year electrical apprenticeship and following that worked on wind turbine repair and service. What I learned from that was even with a huge amount of R and D gone in to a multi MW turbine, they still break down a lot and that alot of the time what looks great/works out perfect on paper fails miserably in the real world.
I intend to have ago at building a turbine this summer, Due to cost reasons it's probably going to be a ferrite magnet geared turbine. With the output used for water heating
I'm lucky to have an isolated open site with an average windspeed of around 8m/s.
I also intend next year to do a project on a PLC based system for the speed control of a small turbine using electrical loading.
I look forward to asking a lot of questions and sharing pictures of my build over the next few years.
