On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 11:17:30AM -0400, skipscopy wrote:
>
> Oh, ya, one other fillip - seen from the side, the prop tips line up exactly
> when they're spinning. John (Hotwire) tells me that's NEVER seen. Mind
> you, I couldn't very well take a micrometer up there, but certainly, with
> the best an eyeball from 5' can tell, they are perfectly aligned. I think
> it has to be the balancing. YMMV :{))
Take a piece of paper up there, stretch one edge, and _slowly_ bring it
up to the spinning blades. The width of the resulting cut will tell you
all about the alignment. :) Or you can just trust your estimate and be
proud of the job you've done - it certainly sounds like you did it well!
I've got an AirX wind gen, and other than losing one in a hurricane due
to poor-quality mounting bolts (ouch...), I've had no trouble with these
things ever since installing the first one back in 1990-some (I think I
was in the Turks and Caicos then, which would have been around '95 or
'96). Pretty decent service record for anything on a boat.
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* Ben Okopnik * Editor-in-Chief, Linux Gazette * http://LinuxGazette.NET *
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