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@jv sorry I haven’t got back to either of you on this yet.. the one we’ve gone for is an sd6. It used to be owned by kingspan but guess it’s a Japanese company now. Expected lifetime is about 25 years, although now the tower is up replacing the head completely would only be about 6k. Think it’ll be in the region of £5 or 600 for an annual check and the guy says with these all he really does is maintenance and doesn’t get many faults (although, he would say that haha). We got ours through Orkney renewables so don’t know where you would go locally for more info, maybe the energy savings trust? I think I’ve got the output profiles earlier in the thread but I’ll try and dig them out again. We get an average wind speed of 7.2m/s over the year which is significantly higher than average in the uk I think. No idea about the loss in power but hoping minimal, think this will be stuff we properly learn when it’s in situ and functioning over time.
@ketsbaia I’m really excited to follow your search for potential places! Now you’ve said it online you know you kind of need to now don’t you?
Everything is closed off for the flashings and solar panels to go on today now the wind has died and the builder is hoping to start on the external render today too 🤞🏻 I spent some days going through and tidying the larch as well as getting every board in the workshop screwed to 150mm centres.
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This is looking so good now. Thanks for sharing everything and allowing us to live your dream vicariously!
I would also be interested in the turbine details. What's the expected lifetime, cost to maintain and output profile over a typical year of weather conditions up there? And also, how much power do you lose through making the output supply suitable for / compatible with "domestic use"?