Another Nacelle Fault that won't clear

Late Sunday night/ monday morning Jan 10, we got a Nacelle fault but it cleared when power cycled in the morning.  Monday afternoon we got another Narcelle fault but this one won't clear.

December Results are in . . .

For the month of December we made  228KWH of electricity.  That includes being down from Dec 6 -12.  That means we saved $35 off our electric bill this month and we had a lot of windy days.

Redriven gets a new investor

http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/partner/redriven-power-inc/news/article/2010/12/new-capital-investment-boosts-canadian-wind-turbine-company





Good news, Redriven has a new investor to help the business grow. It says that Redriven is "positioned as the 6th largest small wind manufacturer worldwide based on kW of sales".

We are up and running again!

 Parker and Scott were here yesterday. They worked very hard on a bitterly cold day and evening. The problem was that the computer in the Nacelle lost it programming. They couldn’t get it to reload, so they replaced it.


We checked the production meter before and after raising the tower. It seems that lowering the tower takes about 1KWHs and bringing it back up is about 1.5 KWHs.

Down again

We got another Nacelle fault and it won't clear or startup again.   We were really starting to make some power too.

Starting to Crank Out power now

In the last week we've cranked out 88KWHs.

November Results

This month the wind turbine was down more than up but in the last two days we have made more power than we did last month. The new Redriven system seems to be much better at reducing the parasitic power needed to just keep the system up.



This month the production meter that tracks the power that we can use read 85KWH.  51 KWH were produced  just yesterday.

The inverts combined for the month made 131 KWH. I believe a lot of that power was used to raise and lower the tower. I think we lowered and raised the tower about 5 times this month. I'm not exactly sure how much power that uses but with the weight of that tower if has to be significate.


Here is the wind chart  from a neighborhood weather station. We missed a bunch of great wind days this month but last two days were really windy.