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Renewable Energy Questions/Discussion => Wind and Hydro => Topic started by: rossw on August 09, 2012, 09:36:09 pm

Title: Failure of a turbine blade....
Post by: rossw on August 09, 2012, 09:36:09 pm

Wow, forget carving them out of wood, or making them from fibreglass - I want a set of these! :)

Title: Re: Failure of a turbine blade....
Post by: Wolvenar on August 09, 2012, 10:13:28 pm

Wow nice.. I want a few sets of them too.

Title: Re: Failure of a turbine blade....
Post by: Watt on August 09, 2012, 10:25:09 pm

Nice, any ideas how the blade is put together? 

Title: Re: Failure of a turbine blade....
Post by: kitestrings on August 10, 2012, 02:50:44 pm

Darn, that's the a same method that I was going to use.  Well, that ones been done, I guess I'll just let mine run in a high wind and see how they do.

Thanks for sharing ross, that was fun, but hard to watch.

~kitestrings

Title: Re: Failure of a turbine blade....
Post by: ghurd on August 27, 2012, 07:02:13 am

"Safety Glasses"?
G-

Title: Re: Failure of a turbine blade....
Post by: Rover on August 27, 2012, 02:46:17 pm

Hmm nice,
I tried epoxy impregnated cardboard under vacuum. I tried it so that no one else would, really that was my intent. 

 Nobody try the cardboard method, bad things happen (blades get water saturated, mill gets unbalanced, blades fall off, mill walks off tower searching for a smarter owner).

Rover

Title: Re: Failure of a turbine blade....
Post by: hiker1 on August 28, 2012, 01:08:29 am

rover........sounds like a few of my missadventures..  :}

Title: Re: Failure of a turbine blade....
Post by: Rover on August 28, 2012, 04:16:53 pm

I do a lot of things just to educate... I frequently do stuff that won't work, just for that reason :)

Title: Re: Failure of a turbine blade....
Post by: MadScientist267 on August 30, 2012, 12:20:31 am

That was awesome.  :o

Bet they don't fall into the "value menu" though. Yeah, right up there somewhere between Lambos and the hope diamond.  ???

And 25 years of service? Hell, I could see a lot more than that. Tranny, bearing, or alternator before a blade goes awry.

And its "natural" too? Crazy man, just crazy.

Wonder how heavy they are as compared to other blade materials...

Steve