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Forum Index : Windmills : It’s that time of year again.

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Gizmo

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Joined: 05/06/2004
Location: Australia
Posts: 5118
Posted: 02:06pm 19 Dec 2008
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Well its Christmas, 2008, already!

Cant say its been a good year locally, floods in my home town ( 600mm in one day, thats 23 inches of rain in one storm! ), mud slides at home, goanna ate my chickens! Globally we've had a economic downturn, and more terrorists attacks in the region.

But the way I see it, if your reading this message, then you've managed to stay out of harms way for another year, still kicking and breathing, and thats a good thing.

The windmill projects have come a long way in the last year. Quad stators, chain saw made blades, cap tuning, twisted poles, etc, etc. All possible with the input from everyone who has contributed to the forum. Well done guys.

The web site traffic has grown by about 50% in the last year. And as some of you have noticed the site has been off line or slow a fair bit lately. Power failures and ADSL outages are taking their toll, through no fault of the business thats hosting the site ( Gavin, an old friend who runs an ISP from home ). So its time to move the entire thebackshed site to a professional hosting service, Webcentral.

Webcentral have huge internet bandwidth, meaning the site will load much faster for everyone with much less downtime. It will take me a few weeks to transfer everything over ( The whole site is about 400M ) and get all the scripts and forum working correctly. At some time in the next week or so I'll lock the forum while the DNS is changed. This will take a couple of days, no postings will be lost, fingers crossed!

So have a great Christmas break and happy new year.

Glenn
The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago, the second best time is right now.
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windlight
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Joined: 03/03/2007
Location: Australia
Posts: 331
Posted: 02:38pm 19 Dec 2008
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Typical bloudy banana bender winging about the rain, greate site Glen keep up the good work and have a cyclone free xmas.

Allan in the west
"I like this place and willingly could waste my time in it" - (Act II, Scene IV).
 
Gill

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Joined: 11/11/2006
Location: Australia
Posts: 669
Posted: 03:14am 20 Dec 2008
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Great stuff Glenn. You truly do an excellent behind the scenes job for us mouse pushing windmillers.
I agree, it has been an adventurous year for the site and this includes the forum.

Perhaps you'll have a less unwelcome excitement in 2009, be able to spend more time on those 'Glenn Projects' and put the feet up a few more times.

So seasons greetings back at ya.
Will look forward to the new host in the near future.
was working fine... til the smoke got out.
Cheers Gill _Cairns, FNQ
 
brucedownunder2
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Joined: 14/09/2005
Location: Australia
Posts: 1548
Posted: 08:19pm 20 Dec 2008
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Hi Glenn and Crew,,, First of all , Seasons greetings to all ,play safe and hope you all spend a lovely time with friends and family.

This year has been a busy one for me ,first was the trip to Brasil, south Africa and perth on the way home to greet my new grand daughter. then the varnishing of the house ,10 weeks work. and now I've returned from a quick trip to sydney to farewell a nice friend.
Windmill wise, the new Trev fibreglass blades are on the bench ,along with the new drive assembly and many other projects,. I don't think I'll ever stop ,lol.
During the year Gordon visited and I've been over to Phill's place a few times.
You are all welcome to visit if you are down this way .. just give us a call on 07 33453513.

Cheers for the new year,

Bruce
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vawtman

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Joined: 14/09/2006
Location: United States
Posts: 146
Posted: 05:44pm 21 Dec 2008
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Happy holidays to all you down there and may Santa drop a bag of caps for all to play with

Cool stuff and carry on.
 
Bolty

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Joined: 03/04/2008
Location: Australia
Posts: 81
Posted: 08:59pm 21 Dec 2008
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As a newcomer to this site I must congratulate you Glenn
on a really important often under-recognized role that
you play. Your efforts have resulted in this site being
a great success. Without it, my knowledge and
understanding of the complexity of RE would have been
much, much less. It is through the forum that I have met
a fine group of willing, helpful people. All of this
augurs well for the future of people doing their bit for
the environment. I fondly remember your wisdom and
guidance when I was just beginning and made a posting
here. Your support then was very very much appreciated
and most encouraging. Your efforts and time spent in
keeping this going are very valuable indeed, and some
people possibly take it for granted. However I see your
role as that of a wise leader, allowing all of us to
interact and learn from each other. I guess that it is
not dissimilar to the role of Father Christmas.

A Merry Christmas to you and your reindeers, and may
Santa keep on coming for many years into the future!

Bolty
 
oztules

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Joined: 26/07/2007
Location: Australia
Posts: 1686
Posted: 09:18pm 21 Dec 2008
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Santa bought 4" of rain ..... so all is good.

The wind powered EV has clocked up near a hundred kilometers of paddock bashing so far... it is still pig ugly, but there is a chance that a Suzuki Mightyboy may be in the wings soon... smaller and lighter and with windows.

The 4m chainsaw mill is still working perfectly and has been a good test bed and learning device. The AWP is still spinning well and both have survived 3 days of battering winds that left trees down, roofs torn off and sheds spirited away across paddocks and roads. (the 4" of rain didn't come without cost).

All things considered, just another great year on the Island.

Happy holidays to all, thanks to Glen for making the site available to all the people around the world.

........oztules

Ps. The chainsaw thing is still on Hugh's site as well as Nialls effort. I wonder if this means that Hugh is going to give it a go as well
Village idiot...or... just another hack out of his depth
 
fillm

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Joined: 10/02/2007
Location: Australia
Posts: 730
Posted: 11:29pm 22 Dec 2008
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Hi All,

A Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to everyone , as Glenn has said "Its been a big year for development " I hope the new year brings much more with all the work done by the members of this site . One outstanding topic is of course "capacitors" soon to go through 20,000 views , where will it be this time next year ? .. Don't give up on it Gordon as I and probably everyone watching and contrubiting to its development in our own ways appreciate the amount of time and effort you put in ...
Oztules , you always amaze me with your down to earth approach to your projects and of course being able to see and understand and explain the technical aspects as well , Keep Up the Ideas and Trials and posts , always a pleasure to read and view ..
To everyone , Let the new year bring us together as a team with one goal " To Get More Out Of Our Windmills Through Open and Respectfull Discussion "
Glenn , keep up the good work .. Phill
PhillM ...Oz Wind Engineering..Wind Turbine Kits 500W - 5000W ~ F&P Dual Kits ~ GOE222Blades- Voltage Control Parts ------- Tower kits
 
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