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imsmooth

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Tower vs Winter storm: catagory 2 hurricane
« on: March 01, 2010, 02:34:59 PM »
I usually don't think of hurricanes in the winter, but my friends at work said that the most recent northeast strom that blew through was the equivalent of a category 2 hurricane.  Although I did not get the center of circulation, the winds were still fierce.  I recorded a peak power of 2300 watts OUT on my inverter.  This is less than the actual power IN.


I have to say the tower and turbine survived without any problem.  The only casualty was my shunt controller blowing an IGBT, which I think had to do with the shunt going active while connect to the grid.  I have to work on this.


I have to thank the information I have gleaned from this site for some of the construction design.

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