On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 22:41:23 -0000, Jeremy Pinwhistle wrote:

Yes I saw the cup/mechanical one, and missed out on it by literally a
few minutes. Apparantely they cost over £85o new, but as you say would
have been ideal.

Well you'll get the mean speed but I suspect that knowing the peaks might
not be a bad idea so you can tell the turbine people the real conditions
it's going to have to survive. I wouldn't be surprised to find the
longish term mean speed here to be between 10 and 15mph but that doesn't
stop periods of sustained speeds up to 50mph with gusts 20mph higher...

The winds round here have killed two small turbines in less than a year
to my knowledge.

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