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I've just had a quick butchers at a turbine safety and amongst what's discussed are vibration sensors.
One of the classical, and most simple safety devices in a wind turbine is the vibration sensor in the image above, which was first installed in the Gedser wind turbine. It simply consists of a ball resting on a ring. The ball is connected to a switch through a chain. If the turbine starts shaking, the ball will fall off the ring and switch the turbine off.
http://www.windpower.org/en/tour/wtrb/safety.htm
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Originally posted by KentPhilip View Post
Fook me, thats just like some of my code.
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Something obviously hit the fan.
My guess is a Giant Flying Turd.
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I bet the UFO supporters are the same people sending texts to 'Most Haunted Live'...
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These things do break
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=c3FZtm...eature=related
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=QL-cRu...eature=related
and catch fire
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=4N4HQv...eature=relatedLast edited by KentPhilip; 8 January 2009, 16:35.
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Originally posted by wobbegong View PostBirdstrike.
Heard someone on R4 this morning speculating it was falling ice from a passenger jet, which struck the blade and subsequently melted, leaving no trace. Apparently this happens a lot in cold weather. Be careful out there.
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Nobody has considered that a ghost might have done it, using a blast of his supernatural ectoplasm energy.
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Originally posted by Purple Dalek View PostSo the spacemen were distracted by the pyrotechnics and their path inadvertently took them into a windmill.
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Originally posted by TimberWolf View PostThe bangs and lights have already been identified as a firework display going on nearby.
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Originally posted by Purple Dalek View PostWell, 1st blade falls off because it wasn't bolted on correctly, the emergency brakes slam on to stop the thing falling completely to pieces (or vica versa), a remaining blade breaks and comes to rest with the broken blade pointing in the direction of travel because of momentum taking it there.
Lots of bangs and showers of sparks during the episode. If anyone had watched it, and it was dark enough, the blades will have glowed blue too.
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