Saw some wind turbines that had very short but quite large diameter generator housings.
What is the difference?
Pancake Generator Wind Turbine?
Oct 08, 2019
Last reply: 6 years ago
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No gearbox
Multipole design
Possibly the number of poles that can be fitted in the generator? I suspect that this means they are ?direct drive? and don?t have/need a gearbox.
Tim
There's one at Glyndebourne that's direct drive - losses are less than through a gearbox, of course. No idea what the drawbacks are, but possibly limited output. Video of the construction about half-way down the page; for the impatient ones, skip to 2 min. It shows the housing, with men inside it, before the front is fitted.
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This type?
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They look ugly compared to ones with a longer nacelle.
From my google image search for "wind turbine", 13/300 involved smoke and flames ...
Also no gearbox = much quieter.
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Thanks - was able to Google "direct drive wind turbine" and found this:
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That's impressive - and so is the wind that it can withstand. 59m/s is about
130mph.It presumably is the inverse of the direct drive motors that are flat. We had some when I worked for Racal, they were going to be used on some automated battle ready spy device to be parachuted in behind lines or somesuch. Brian
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