Several weeks ago, I noticed that the wind turbine wasn't charging the batteries anymore... A call to the company revealed that there was probably a short up there somewhere, and that we would need to bring the tower down to find out what's going on and fix it... It's a 60' tower and not the easiest thing to do... It hasn't been down since we put it up 2 1/2 years ago... We all breathed a big sigh of relief when it was down safely... Here's pictures of the process... In the background you can see the white truck...that truck is the all important part of getting it on the ground safely. The tower was connected to it by cable, and we were able to bring it down by slowly driving forward...
Adjusting the top tension wires....
Coming down...
A little further....
... and further...
...almost down...
On the ground!!!!
Now comes the troubleshooting part...
... but we have enough guys to figure it out...
They discovered that it was the rectifier that was shorted, so the turbine will be out of commission for a few more weeks until we are able to get the part and put it back in service...
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