... As far as I have been able to find out, "memory effect" only applies to Ni-cad and Nickel-Metal Hydride Batteries, and it is not a loss of capacity, but...
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Julian Feuchtwang
j.b.feuchtwang@...
Nov 20, 2000 4:57 pm
Jack, You are picking nits that aren't there!! The alphabet doesn't have enough letters to assign them uniquely to quantities and, unlike units, I don't ...
3641
georges
georgepds@...
Nov 20, 2000 11:00 pm
The national weather service is predicting winds . Now I can tell before I leave for work whether to switch the fridge to wind or grid power:) Description ...
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georges
georgepds@...
Nov 20, 2000 11:37 pm
... And using ... I make the following prediction Day Time wind watts Kwh Tot Kwh Tues 0 10 43 0.13 0.13 3 10 43 0.13 0.26 6 15 146 0.44 0.70 9 15 146 0.44...
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Michael Klemen
windy@...
Nov 21, 2000 4:03 am
Tracy and all, I've been getting some rather interesting email regarding the picture I sent out with the generator current. I'm glad it's been provocative! I...
3644
hugh piggott
hugh.piggott@...
Nov 21, 2000 8:42 am
My normal e-mail was out of action for sending mail At 8:17 am -0800 18/11/00, Paul Gipe wrote: hugh at cat 1. ask cat what's the status of that experimental...
3645
Michael Klemen
windy@...
Nov 21, 2000 1:35 pm
Hi all, I would like to apologize for the incorrect assessment below. While I do not know the correct calculation from the top of my head, I do know that it...
3646
georges
georgepds@...
Nov 21, 2000 4:10 pm
... Opps... please multiply all the power/energy figures by 1.5 (1.15)^3 to account for the difference between knots and mph...
3647
georges
georgepds@...
Nov 21, 2000 4:39 pm
... Well the prediction for time wind T-09 W15 T-12 W20 is in the ballpark. http://iwin.nws.noaa.gov/iwin/ma/hourly.html reports CITY SKY/WX...
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georges
georgepds@...
Nov 21, 2000 4:43 pm
... Hi, One way to cut through this gordian knot is with a microhone mounted near the rotor. You should see something at the blade passing frequency (f=...
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Bob Ellison
ellison@...
Nov 21, 2000 6:58 pm
I hope that they are more accurate in your area than in mine!! I would have dead batteries frequently if I depended on their predictions in this area. Bob ... ...
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georges
georgepds@...
Nov 21, 2000 8:57 pm
... would have ... this area. Well... we'll see:) Qualitatively the results seem OK. On the day the wind was predicted to be >10 mph, the flags were all...
3651
Brent Peterson
bppeters@...
Nov 22, 2000 3:31 am
... I agree, accurate measurement of 3 phase AC systems will probably require a dedicated instrument, maybe even with three independent processing paths if ...
3652
tmiller@...
Nov 22, 2000 7:04 pm
Hello everyone. I am Travis Miller and i live near Minot ND. I'm new to the the wind energy egroup. I have a degree in Industrial Maint Technologies that is...
3653
hugh piggott
hugh.piggott@...
Nov 22, 2000 8:29 pm
... I mean full wave rectified 3 phase AC current, charging a battery. Battery voltage can be taken as constant for all intents and purposes, if you measure at...
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Michael Klemen
windy@...
Nov 22, 2000 11:28 pm
Hi all, ... I had better pipe in here...on the H40, I've been measuring the battery voltage at the EZ-Wire, not at the battery terminals, like my other...
3655
tmiller@...
Nov 27, 2000 4:11 am
Thank you everyone for the email inquireries! I dont mind the private emails at all. Most of them were on three phase and a few were related to my syncronous...
3656
rwake@...
Nov 27, 2000 2:57 pm
Hello! I'm a newly minted member of your group. I was glad to find it. I'm just investigating this technology right now, but I'm going to build myself a system...
3657
Claus Nybroe
windmission@...
Nov 27, 2000 2:57 pm
Nothing to do with windpower, hope Tom passes it on anyway, as I'm not able to solve this little problem from the Danish side of the Ocean. After our fire I...
3658
Korzon
korzon@...
Nov 27, 2000 4:49 pm
Greetings! I've just subscribed to this group, so first of all I want to greet everyone and I think I'll stay quiet now, to figure out what's going on here... ...
3659
hugh piggott
hugh.piggott@...
Nov 27, 2000 7:41 pm
... speed matching is important. and you may have problems with the brushes on your dc motor. But in principle you may be OK. ... If you go straight from a...
3660
Ken Bosley
windenergy@...
Nov 28, 2000 11:56 am
I have made corrections in red underlined. Please respond with your opinions as soon as possible. +++ Ken Bosley,...
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Michael Klemen
windy@...
Nov 28, 2000 2:01 pm
Ken, Please correct your corrections... ... That's what economic development is telling farmers that they can get. If they CAN get it, why would they settle...
3662
Norm & Trish
songsfhp@...
Nov 28, 2000 5:07 pm
Hello Y'all: It's been a while since my last post... but here's a question for some of you who may have an integrated Wind/Solar system: I'd like to...
3663
Paul Gipe
pgipe@...
Nov 28, 2000 5:07 pm
Ken, Just a few clarifications. One time payments. Ken is right about one time payments to farmers in early deals with Northern States Power. NSP ripped off...
3664
Douglas Johnson
sales@...
Nov 29, 2000 4:35 am
Hello from NE Wisconsin: I just wanted to insert some opinion here: North Dakota has plenty of coal burning facilities and I believe that they could be in the...
3665
Gunner401@...
Nov 29, 2000 2:18 pm
Hi Everybody, Can anybody recommend a company that sells windmill generators that generate 5k to 10k WATS of electricity? I have a small home on the water and...
3666
Corey Babcock
cbabcock@...
Nov 29, 2000 3:43 pm
Ken "Basically, they're paying me to let the wind blow," said Mr. Schardin, 38, who has found that selling wind rights to his great-grandfather39;s homestead can...
3667
Black, Casey
blackc@...
Nov 29, 2000 4:15 pm
I'm no expert on the transmission grid, but I do live in the Dakotas and I know that a great deal of energy is exported from the hydroplants on the Missouri...
3668
elliott
wpt@...
Nov 30, 2000 8:45 pm
Dear Michael, Yes, a significant change in the geometry of the angle governor was made when we went from the stainless weldment version to the cast aluminum ...