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We only use sealed stainless bearings, set behind oil seals, and normally recessed in such a way as to not expose them to weather. This adds cost of course.
I've found success is possible even if the Federal labs completely ignore you. The answer is to forget even THINKING about including them and just get on with
weigh your purchase discision carefully, the Honeywell design is a low output per blade size by viture of it being a drag machine. you should do your sizing
For everyone's website favs: http://www.oakcreekenergy.com/cgi-bin/ops2d.cgi , a list of what just some 45 turbines out of 5000 here are doing, sometimes down