Just A thought

[icicle]

I see all you guys using wire straight from the stator to the power hook up.

what happen when your wind mills start to winding the wires together tightly.

What I mean is when your gennie starts off in the north wind and follows it around C.W. or C.C.W. and you get a twist in the wire.

Why can't you take three brass tubes and make like a tangle free connection.

like a telephone thin-a-jig that rotates so the cord doesn't tangle

[wpowokal]

It is generally found that slip rings are not required in most installations. On average the mill turns evenly both ways, or at least does not require unwinding very often.

One of my units, an old commercial job had slip rings origionally but I did not refurbish them with the mill. It also had bearings on the piviot, I had to unwind the chord weekly.

I currently have a different unit on this tower that has pipe over pipe with a brass washer as thrust. This has been up for nine months and I have not had to unwind it, so this tells me for my situation some resistance to yawing is desirable.

Some believe slip rings are another source of resitance best done without, others are happy using them. Not everybody has the expertise or equipment to manufacture sliprings so take the path of least resistance.

Allan down under

[paradigmdesign]

I had an idea once, before I completely decided against slip rings.  It was to have the wire ran down in a conduit, and to have the slip rings at the base of the turbine.  That way if you do need to replace the brushes, it is not a 100 foot vertical voyage.

Personaly I belive just using wire tension, and at most a spring (similar to the ones found on garage doors).