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    Barn conversion heating / hot water

    The last conversion like this we did for a client here in Brittany started off with a large thermal store (tank) being fed by vacuum tube solar heaters to give 1000L/day of 55° water....pumping into underfloor heating etc. The tube pump is fed by a solar PV panel!! (also feeds excess into the...
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    How's everyone getting on with there proven p35-2 wind turbines'

    When the turbine starts to turn, the dc voltage rises sharply to start the inverter, that is normal, but....where all the low to mid wind is lost....if like me the use of compound inverters was always a priority....to do a set line, I always used a Windy Boy 1700 (130V startup) coupled with a...
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    How's everyone getting on with there proven p35-2 wind turbines'

    Did...and had quite a natter...seems the Proven legacy has left a lot to be desired especially with the use of SMA 6000A inverters which are, for me, NOT the best to use....the problem being a: the start up feed point is at 247V where the turbine power is NOT....b: the strict usage of...
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    Hinckley Point ?

    Luxury...the EDF reactor at Flamanville near Cherbourg is already several years late, a couple of billion over budget, the reactor steel is porous and EDF say the nucear safety people are all wrong and EDF want to switch on in 2018....wait and see if Flamanville falls off the peninsula and drops...
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    Proven P35 and other now defunct turbines

    If there was anyone who also has issues with FORTIS (Holland), BRAUN or HEYDE (Germany) plus the older EWW, ACSA, LMW or BOSMAN turbines, I hold most archives covering the last 30+ years, have spares for many and even have oddball grid tie inverters like ASP TCG4000s that run on 125V dc nominals
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    How's everyone getting on with there proven p35-2 wind turbines'

    Ta muchly Thomas, next part will be to get the hydraulics from Cornwall and get the damned things down for some NDT (all on 21m Hutchinson hydraulic towers and someone theived the brackets, rams etc from at least three sites)
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    Lark Energy - are they going bust?!

    Nothing new in the UK either...here in France we had France Eoliennes (€20 million hole in the accounts) plus Windeo, Ecolia, Wind-electric and Weole, the latter who took Jacques Touquet for a ride and he lost Eoltec (Scirocco wind turbines)
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    Proven P35 and other now defunct turbines

    P35-2......Have beentrolling around for info on these turbines... MCS have no idea, TUV NEL are unreachable and Kingspan...every time I try to ask the factory the phone goes silent and nobody wants to know, not even Richard Caldow (Big Boss) We have over a dozen P35s in France, plus more in...
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    How's everyone getting on with there proven p35-2 wind turbines'

    How could I get hold of this Bob Roberts?? am in France and have a dozen P35s at a standstill...nobody ever told exported turbines of what needs to be done!! Derek Andrews, BSc (Hons), MIEEExE CTO: SARL AMIFRANCE LTD 35400 Saint-Malo (IN 98 AP) France +33 663 465 598 www.ami-enr.fr.gd...
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