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VAWT: solidity. is there anyone that can say anything about it?

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topspeed:
Easy starting... top rpm...huge efficiency ????

brandnewb:
easy starting is for my scenario the only player in town. The referee is safety.

I am open to any and all suggestions. But please understand that since my progress on this bird is well underway I might not be able to implement all suggestions (that are likely to work for this project) at this stage.

However. Great suggestions might likely be a part of the next cycle.

The cycle being. Set the Apache up. See the bird spin. Record what she is producing. Inspect her for signs of hurt. take her down (in a controlled manner mind you ;) haha ), Do upgrades.

and the cycle repeats.

Now if ever this beast can become both producing enough to get by with and be rock solid that one does not need to worry.
Then it will be time for the structural engineers amongst us to calculate how to keep this bird from flying off while mounted on a roof.
I for one am sooo not capable of that ;(

Bruce S:
Have a look at some of Windstuffnow's posts about roof mounting and or connecting a Turbine to a building. Ed Lenz did it just so he could give a real world account of what it does

There some very early discussions about why NOT to do this, and posts from people who did anyway and the results.

Bruce S

Mary B:
Having an antenna tower connected to the west wall of m house is loud enough in high winds when it starts vibrating! And moaning... and howling if an antenna is turned just right to get wind across an open boom end... all transmitted into the house...

brandnewb:
so I am getting the impression that the general advice is to not do it? ;(

You see the thing is that you guys have so much more experience and there for can take into account a regular roof.
I do not even believe it makes a difference if the build style is American or European.

All I have as a reference is the roof that I have. I have chosen a steel frame structure for it's ease in designing and for the availability of structural engineers that are able to convince the municipality that the design is sound. I for one can not do structural calculations.
This all leads to that I have a roof that one can put 10 elephants on. maybe even an Apache while in service.

But if the average of roofs are not built to handle high loads then it is not looking great for possible wider adoption of the bird on roofs.

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