Forrest Addy
Diamond
- Joined
- Dec 20, 2000
- Location
- Bremerton WA USA
My grand niece is in high school. Nice kid, smart. Sunday dinner, she asked me - I'm her font of technical explanations - how does a direct drive wind turbine work. I went: "Uhh-h..."
When I got home, I surfed the web until my finger fell off but all I could find is "black block" diagrams like the ancient map makers placed "here be dragons" and Siemens videos of schooling fish and CG fly arounds of wind turbine pylons mixed with yokels and their whirling trash sculptures. .
Permanent magnet? A jillion poles? Variable RPM constant frequency? WTF? Somehow some where there has to be info detailing the generator and its control interface with the grid. Blade pitching, asimuth control, siting, world winds, weather cycles, geography I can fake from general knowledge, but the guts? No. Bllank spot.
Can anyone point me in the right direction for technical information on how the generator and control of a multi megawatt wind turbine work?
When I got home, I surfed the web until my finger fell off but all I could find is "black block" diagrams like the ancient map makers placed "here be dragons" and Siemens videos of schooling fish and CG fly arounds of wind turbine pylons mixed with yokels and their whirling trash sculptures. .
Permanent magnet? A jillion poles? Variable RPM constant frequency? WTF? Somehow some where there has to be info detailing the generator and its control interface with the grid. Blade pitching, asimuth control, siting, world winds, weather cycles, geography I can fake from general knowledge, but the guts? No. Bllank spot.
Can anyone point me in the right direction for technical information on how the generator and control of a multi megawatt wind turbine work?
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