Overspeed protection

[PierreB]

Rope-drive transmission

Yeah all the beginners or not-even-quite-beginner-yet internet beard-strokers always say that. Always have. Most small-wind systems are on guyed towers, like that “no-tower” camping turbine. Most of these guyed towers can be tilted up and down, using a truck and/or winch of some type. It is usually a pretty significant operation to tilt a tower up or down, since the winch must be operated with care, then the guy wire must be connected with hardware once tilted up. I guess this could all be…

Hi Doug, I don’t think overspeed protection is the same issue for the fixed elements of a ground-based wind turbine and for AWES where we can directly act on kites being able to be depowered.