Hi
The UK is having some silly winds at the moment.
For two days my turbine has had the shorting link fitted, but still I have seen the blades turning faster than I would like, and the thing was furling even with the blades barely turning. I was becoming fed up with keep running outside to check things then after one enthusiastic gust I watched the turbine spin much faster than I would have liked and it kept turning. Then several sheet of metal came off the roof of a neighbours shed and the blades just kept turning not silly fast but enough to worry be about burning out, it's only 200W so the winding are not going to be more than needed.
I grabbed an old climbing rope and threw one end over the turbine, (sometimes 30ft high is good) I worked the rope into the gap between the turbine body and the prop hub, I then managed to get one end of the rope one side of a blade and the other end of the rope the other side of the blade. I pullled it out trapping the blade and tied it off to one of the guy fixings. The tail swung round by luck I had pulled the blades side on to the wind. The rope is 5000 pound and there is too little movement to worry about friction.
I can now spend my evening without worrying about over speeding and shedding blades.
Brian