Excellent report Ken! Thank you for all the valuable updated information!
Another item I have not mentioned was my mounting of the KISS generators. I used two aluminum poles, a 1 1/4" inside a 1 1/2" with epoxy poured in between the two pipes. The inner pipe is slightly shorter than the outer one. A set screw from the outside of the pipe holds the slip ring unit in place to prevent rattling. In my case the doubled-up pipe is attached to my aluminum deckhouse. The lower, threaded end, screws into a threaded 90 deg el which screws onto a threaded stub of pipe welded to the deckhouse side. About 20" above this is an angle bracket welded to the deckhouse side with a U-bolt to hold the pipe. This makes it very easy to simply remove the u-bolt and swing the unit down for servicing. The cord hanging from the tail of the wind generator has a bowline around the pipe with enough of a loop in it so after I rotate the wind generator away from the wind and the propeller stops, I can slip the bowline loop around a prop tip to secure the machine. It is easy to do because I can easily reach to the cord from on deck. With the unit higher up and having to use a boathook would be much more difficult for us old folks. Norm S/V Bandersnatch Lying Julington Creek FL 30 07.72N 081 38.4W _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list [email protected] To adjust your membership settings over the web http://www.liveaboardnow.org/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] The archives are at http://www.liveaboardnow.org/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
