Solar power is wonderful but here in Northern Ireland sun is often in short supply, especially in winter when the days are short. Hence the need for an alternative – in this case a wind turbine. Bornay, who make this particular model have been building turbines since the 1970’s so we are hoping that they’ve perfected them by now. Ours is a 3kw, 2 bladed affair weighing in at 100kg, and 4m wingspan, and it is perched atop a somewhat over engineered 9 metre mast that is anchored with 4 steel cables to the rock below. The mast is, to put it mildly, heavy. So heavy in fact that four of us could barely lift one of the two halves.
and so had to roll, drag and generally cadjole the two halves on and off the trailer, and into position before bolding them together and attaching the whole to the hinge at the bottom.
This not inconsiderable weight is then hoisted into place using a rather noisy and suspect electric winch –
First attempt at raising new turbine mast from Lackan Cottage Farm on Vimeo.
The new wind turbine mast is raised for the first time. Thanks to Felix, Rachel and Jaclyn for making it happen 🙂
and here is the turbine generating –
Bornay Inclin 3000 wind turbine from Lackan Cottage Farm on Vimeo.
Our Bornay 3000 wind turbine getting its first proper run after installation
Brilliant! So glad to see a turbine up again and hope it’ll be a real boon to you all at Lackan.
and the wierdest thing – just as we have been working out the best way to deal with the power produced, I came home thursday evening to find two huge storage heaters sitting out the back. The guys who laid some floor for us earlier in the year had taken them out of a building, and were passing so thought they’d see if it would be something we might need. No idea about the turbine etc, just pure synchronicity. The more we trust that these things will happen, so they do. 🙂
Hello, I’m considering a wind turbine at my vacation home close to Enis. May I ask you how happy you are with your Bornay turbine? Would you recommend to go again that avenue? Thanks for any feedback, much appreciated!
Hi, ours have been great – we’ve 2, neither bought new. However, I’ve had a new controller from Bornay, and they’ve always been very helpful, as we had a lot of questions initially. Not always the fastest to respond, but friendly and reliable. I’d buy from them again.