Wouldn't it be great if pylons looked like this?
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Elen Sentier
Bushcrafter (boy, I've got a lot to say!)
They've taken all the pylons around here down and buried the cables instead 
How the hang they find a problem I don't know though
I like the stags and the walking men though
cheers,
Toddy
How the hang they find a problem I don't know though
I like the stags and the walking men though
cheers,
Toddy
Dreadhead
Bushcrafter through and through
Niels - "I'm always immoderately annoyed when windmills don't turn simultaneously."
Wow! I am not alone in that then?? I think they should have them turn so the blades turn at same rate and in the same angle as they turn so when one bald is vertical there is the same blade vertical on another one. Also why have one not turning when all the others turn? Why?!!! It makes no sense. Unless it is not viable to let them turn, i.e. not economic. If that's the case then why build it??
Sorry, don't mention windmills with me about. Brings out a degree of irrationality!
Wow! I am not alone in that then?? I think they should have them turn so the blades turn at same rate and in the same angle as they turn so when one bald is vertical there is the same blade vertical on another one. Also why have one not turning when all the others turn? Why?!!! It makes no sense. Unless it is not viable to let them turn, i.e. not economic. If that's the case then why build it??
Sorry, don't mention windmills with me about. Brings out a degree of irrationality!
Yes, guess you're right. Did hear about certain turbines had an issue with the main bolt (or bolts) holding the blades on. Apparently fatigue I think was the result of the investigation into the failure after a blade went flying off. Think it happend more than once. Incompetence on someone's side. Whether it was the maintenance checks or the maintenance schedule was a bit over ambitious with the length between full check ups. Either way someone screwed up.
I do like windmills. The old ones in Netherlands and I think E Anglia are quite nice. As are those little toy ones made with coloured foil blades. I certainly don't like the new designs being planned in Ireland (to feed into the Britis national grid) that are taller than Nelson's column. Apparently they will ber the biggest in the world being designed and planned for Ireland!!
Mind you, if they put a few of the Deer pylons up taking the juice away then I guess it would be ok.
I do like windmills. The old ones in Netherlands and I think E Anglia are quite nice. As are those little toy ones made with coloured foil blades. I certainly don't like the new designs being planned in Ireland (to feed into the Britis national grid) that are taller than Nelson's column. Apparently they will ber the biggest in the world being designed and planned for Ireland!!
Mind you, if they put a few of the Deer pylons up taking the juice away then I guess it would be ok.
They've taken all the pylons around here down and buried the cables instead
How the hang they find a problem I don't know though
When we ran the cables up to yon windfarm last year we put in a fibre line as well.
Was primarily a control line for monitoring the substation on the hill but apparently if there's a break in the fibre and because the break isn't flat and polished it will reflect enough of a signal for the control room to ping(for want of a better word) it and tell how far along the line the break is.
The control duct went in on top of the cable ducts so it'd be the first thing hit by an excavator.
Some cables have control lines built in as a separate core within the sheathing.
Cheers Josh
I wondered how they would find a problem, but really couldn't see them not thinking about that and making provision to suss it out.
atb,
M
I wondered how they would find a problem, but really couldn't see them not thinking about that and making provision to suss it out.
atb,
M
Something like that^.
Pylons are a good piece of function over form, I like it that way.
They are designed to do a job and do it perfectly, with very little wasted materials or effort.
The fancy looking things look like a group of architecture students have been let loose with the crayons in the hope of drumming up advertising for their practices and to my eyes the ones that look like stags are a waste of time, effort and money.
