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Joiner Trade Member Offline Ask The Trades Posts: 2063 Total Thanks: 7 For This Post: 0 Bridgnorth, Shropshire England Trade: Joiner	Connecting turbines to the grid... Oct 25^th, 2011, 2:11pm Two turbines, "maximum output" 1.5MW. Could poles be used to carry the wires the 2 Km to the grid?
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wozzy Trade Member Offline Ask The Trades Posts: 584 Total Thanks: 4 For This Post: 0 Gender: Trade: Electrician	Re: Connecting turbines to the grid... Reply #1 - Oct 25^th, 2011, 7:13pm cant see why not!
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Joiner Trade Member Offline Ask The Trades Posts: 2063 Total Thanks: 7 For This Post: 0 Bridgnorth, Shropshire England Trade: Joiner	Re: Connecting turbines to the grid... Reply #2 - Oct 25^th, 2011, 7:30pm That's what I was afraid of!
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Lectrician Administrator Trade Member Author Offline Ask The Trades Posts: 8815 Total Thanks: 109 For This Post: 0 Braunton, North Devon United Kingdom Gender: Trade: Electrician	Re: Connecting turbines to the grid... Reply #3 - Oct 25^th, 2011, 7:32pm It will be in the planning app! Usually they will be forced to place them underground, certainly all the ones our way have had this as a clause.
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CWatters Super Member Offline "Daddy fick it" says James Posts: 5150 Total Thanks: 58 For This Post: 0 Gender:	Re: Connecting turbines to the grid... Reply #4 - Oct 25^th, 2011, 10:57pm They would probably prefer poles/pylons as they are cheaper and the losses are less than for underground cables. There will also be small buildings for transformers/substation. Possibly also a permanant monitoring mast.
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Lectrician Administrator Trade Member Author Offline Ask The Trades Posts: 8815 Total Thanks: 109 For This Post: 0 Braunton, North Devon United Kingdom Gender: Trade: Electrician	Re: Connecting turbines to the grid... Reply #5 - Oct 26^th, 2011, 7:19am Modern Turbines these days, certainly of that size, will have the inverter and TX in the base of the actually turbine. If there are an array of Turbines there will be a building somewhere to marshall them all (or their groups), meter it and export it. Often TXing upto 132kVA if you had several MW generated.
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Joiner Trade Member Offline Ask The Trades Posts: 2063 Total Thanks: 7 For This Post: 0 Bridgnorth, Shropshire England Trade: Joiner	Re: Connecting turbines to the grid... Reply #6 - Oct 26^th, 2011, 7:51am From the Scoping Brief it appears there will be just the one "sub-station" of 50 sq.m stated dimensions. The line will cross three roads (two B-roads, one A-road), so doubt they'll go to the cost of burying it. At the moment it's just the pp for the anemometry.
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Reply #7 - Oct 26^th, 2011, 11:28am

We have just had 22 turbines errected here - Just one substation, all cables trenched from turbines to substation under the temporary roads which were built to build the turbines.

The 132,000 volt cable from the substation to the grid was moled in, and very impressively done. It is moled under a large hill and below a dual carriageway where they dug a huge pit in a field to change direction, here it is moled under a load of fields to an old railway line (now a cyle track). It is trenched up this cycle track, and then goes inside a large modern bridge, down the other side, trenched a hundred metre or so, and back down to be moled under a huge roundabout, a river, and a link road, emerging again in a field to turn 90 degrees and moled under a link road and up into the bulk intake point. Must have cost a fortune!

http://www.devonwindpower.co.uk/fullabrook-wind-farm

RED - MOLED
GREEN - TRENCHED

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Joiner Trade Member Offline Ask The Trades Posts: 2063 Total Thanks: 7 For This Post: 0 Bridgnorth, Shropshire England Trade: Joiner	Re: Connecting turbines to the grid... Reply #8 - Oct 26^th, 2011, 11:48am Thanks for the link, Lec. It was very useful.
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Reply #9 - Oct 31^st, 2011, 12:01pm

http://www.thisiswesternmorningnews.co.uk/mind-panorama-ndash-listen-turbines-no...

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Never mind the panorama – listen to the turbines' noise

Plans for a giant wind-farm in North Devon always inspired blot-on-the-landscape style concerns, says environment journalist Martin Hesp – but now all 22 turbines at Fullabrook have been erected and tested it’s the problem of noise that is causing a nightmare for some local residents.

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Sue Pike's bungalow is just 600 metres from one of the 110-metre turbines at the new wind-farm and she says: "It is dreadful – the main sound is like a huge great cement mixer going around – then you get the loud whoosh and also whistles and hums.

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Local MP Nick Harvey is so concerned over noise complaints that he recently added a special online survey to his official website.

"This was launched three weeks ago after Nick visited residents up at Putsford who have been complaining about noise problems, vibration, loss of TV reception, flicker etc, now that the farm is almost completely operational," said Mr Harvey's press officer, Anthony Tucker-Jones.

He added that North Devon Council's Environmental Health Department was about to conduct site analysis at five locations in response to residents' concerns.

The results of Mr Harvey's online survey will be collated soon, but the site is still getting about two returns a day and his office says the response has been huge.

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..it was made clear at the public inquiry that the turbines would breach the accepted noise guidelines and now that the turbines are operating the local people are reporting problems, especially at night when it appears that the classic 'swish and thump' of 'amplitude modulation' is preventing some of them from sleeping with their bedroom windows open.

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Reply #10 - Oct 31^st, 2011, 4:58pm

Joiner wrote on Oct 25^th, 2011, 2:11pm:

Could poles be used to carry the wires the 2 Km to the grid?

Latvians are stronger dear chap......LOL! Grin

and these things are never going to be a financial boon.... if fact they are a money pit!!!!!!!!!!

(and that comes from a guy , where one of his many companies makes the damned things.)

AS HONEST AND LOYAL AS THE TIMBER-WOLF. --VAR@*SH, DON'T YOU SWEAR AT ME!! PAL!!&&I DON'T SUFFER FROM INSANITY- I DAMNED WELL ENJOY IT!!!!!

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Reply #11 - Oct 31^st, 2011, 6:08pm

We are low enough not to see these turbines, but we do often walk up amongst them as we have done for many years prior to them being built.

In my opinion they are mechanically silent (no humm, no cement mixer type noise etc) but do make a very noticeable "swish, swish swish" noise we carries pretty far! The shadow flicker is also very noticeable when walking and driving around the country lanes, quite un-nerving when driving through it, the shadows running down the road can be a little dis-orientating at first!

It will be interesting to see what happens with regards these compaints!

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big_all Global Moderator Trade Member Author Offline heeelllooo Posts: 5596 Total Thanks: 10 For This Post: 0 Gender: Trade: Joiner	Re: Connecting turbines to the grid... Reply #12 - Oct 31^st, 2011, 7:25pm did you watch wind farm wars ?? http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00zn463
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Reply #13 - Nov 1^st, 2011, 7:37am

Wish to hell it was still available to watch because it was essential viewing for anyone faced with such a development - not least to show just how nasty the developers can get if anyone gets in their way because they're on Jihad. Crack-head greenies off their heads with self-righteousness.

The people whose lives they destroy are considered nothing more than collateral damage. Angry

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CWatters Super Member Offline "Daddy fick it" says James Posts: 5150 Total Thanks: 58 For This Post: 0 Gender:	Re: Connecting turbines to the grid... Reply #14 - Nov 1^st, 2011, 8:43am Quote: the shadows running down the road can be a little dis-orientating at first Try it on hoeseback.
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big_all Global Moderator Trade Member Author Offline heeelllooo Posts: 5596 Total Thanks: 10 For This Post: 0 Gender: Trade: Joiner	Re: Connecting turbines to the grid... Reply #15 - Nov 1^st, 2011, 11:14am i watched an episode i recorded on bb3 or4 about 3am lol recently i have seen all the episodes and this was the first or second it obviously wasnt last week otherwise it would be avalable
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CWatters Super Member Offline "Daddy fick it" says James Posts: 5150 Total Thanks: 58 For This Post: 0 Gender:	Re: Connecting turbines to the grid... Reply #16 - Nov 1^st, 2011, 11:52am I think I still have most episodes recorded on my Foxsat box but haven't investigated how to get them out of that yet. I think it's easy if i can find a USB drive and if they aren't HD.
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