Wind Turbines and TV reception.

[Muck Spreader]

We have a new wind farm on the far side of the village The turbines are the largest in France (140m to the hub) But the houses near to them are all now complaining about massive interference on both terrestrial and satellite signals plus problems with the phone lines. Do other folk experience similar?

 

[le bon paysan]

No

 

[renewablejohn]

Windfarm near us had to put in a relay station as turbine blades was in direct sight line of Winter hill.

 

[Princess Pooper]

In our planning system, companies running any nearby transmission masts are included in the statutory consultees, so this would have been evident at the planning stage.

 

[fermerboy]

Yes, I got satelite TV fitted to my house due to a wind farm messing up ordinary signals.
I complained to wind farm operator when they started turning, they sent out a TV engineer who measured signal.
The signal actially still measured good but the guy couldnt get a decent picture so he fitted a dish and receivers for every TV in the house.
He had been instructed to sort it out immediately and whatever it took to do so. He quoted them a big price to drop tools, drive 50miles odd that day and fit dish etc and he got it too.
There was mo argument between wind farm and myself they just accepted it.

The turbines are 3mw Enercons at 710ft to tip of blade and 420ft to hub I think, about a mile from my house and are in direct line of the ordinary TV signal.

I have no issue with wind turbines, I have 3 myself but these ones (biggest in UK when they went up) are far to big for the locality, the nearest house is less than 1/2mile away and they absolutely tower over everything. They should be sited in a remote location miles from the nearest inhabited spot.

 

[Exfarmer]

A wnd turbine would need to be right on top of a house to affect satellite signal.
however they will Certainly affect terrestrial signal for a significant distance.

 

[Muck Spreader]

A wnd turbine would need to be right on top of a house to affect satellite signal.
however they will Certainly affect terrestrial signal for a significant distance.

Yes, but in France they are allowed to put them as close as 500m to a house. I think in the rest of Europe it's a greater distance.

 

[Exfarmer]

Yes, but in France they are allowed to put them as close as 500m to a house. I think in the rest of Europe it's a greater distance.

To affect satelite even a big one would need to be in the order of 20 metres!

 

[mawleymoos]

we have a 75kw turbine, and recently installed some new milking robots! however we have a few pedometer/tag reading problems! fullwood claim that it is interference from our turbine, probably only 100 yards away! their is only one receiver playing up, but they claim that the level of interference is borderline with them all! c&f have been out and cannot see a problem with the turbine! we have turned the turbine off, and the robot is working fine! any ideas what can we do?

 

[renewablejohn]

we have a 75kw turbine, and recently installed some new milking robots! however we have a few pedometer/tag reading problems! fullwood claim that it is interference from our turbine, probably only 100 yards away! their is only one receiver playing up, but they claim that the level of interference is borderline with them all! c&f have been out and cannot see a problem with the turbine! we have turned the turbine off, and the robot is working fine! any ideas what can we do?

Sounds like you need to install a faraday cage.

 

[mawleymoos]

someone on a merlin whatsapp group mentioned that! but not sure how and where we could fit it! i should maybe get some advice on it from fullwood!

 

[renewablejohn]

Have a look at this to understand how to build a faraday cage.

EMI Shielding theory and applications

A clear story about EMI-shielding theory in various applications, including prevention

hollandshielding.com

 

[Grassman247]

someone on a merlin whatsapp group mentioned that! but not sure how and where we could fit it! i should maybe get some advice on it from fullwood!

My rotary did similar to an ATL gate, as soon as it turned it killed the gate. All sorts of things give different frequencies. The only solution was to scrap the gate.