Residential Wind Generators - Are They Right For Me?

Residential wind generator are becoming more accessible to a greater number of people than ever before. More people want to know, are they right for me?

There are many things to take into consideration when reviewing wind power, the first being the availability of wind in your area.Once you know if your average wind speed is favorable, the next step is to see if wind power generators are allowed under your zoning. You may need a building permit.

If you have neighbors close by you may want to talk to them about the aspect of a home wind power generator in the neighborhood. Some may be thrilled to see a proactive approach to green power. Others may have concerns about residential wind generators that need to be addressed.

The average wind speed in your area is a good starting point but there are many other variables that will affect the performance of a home wind power generator.The topography of your location greatly affects your wind availability. Even in a high average wind speed area, if you live in a valley or on the lee ward side of a bluff your wind power generators performance will be disappointing.

On the other hand someone in an area of low average wind speed could do quite well with residential wind generators if they are on a hilltop or the windblown side of a bluff or ridge. Some wind powered street lights claim startup speeds as low as four MPH.

The average wind speed in an area can vary greatly through the seasons. At our location in northwestern Illinois, our average wind speed in summer is class 2. In winter when all the crops are harvested and the leaves are off the trees we often reach class 4. Light wind residential wind generators should do quite well in our area.

Because of all the variables involved, and the expense of the installation, site surveys are required to more accurately assess the capabilities for residential wind generators at a given site. This is the only way to accurately gauge the size of wind power generators needed.

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Bridge Saw System Management

Cast iron bridge and spindle carriage ensure rigidity and dampen vibrations.

- The bridge travels on rolling elements permitting greater speed.

- The spindle carriage travels on prismatic guides in an oil bath ensuring rigidity and precision.

- The spindle travels vertically on prismatic guides fitted out with bronze gibs allowing for clearance adjustment

- A pinion meshed with a precision rack control bridge and spindle carriage travel

- Digital brushless motors fitted out with an absolute encoder give greater speed and precision in travel along axes X, Y, Z

- Guide protection and lubrication

- The spindle can be inclined in any position in a range of 0° up to 90° enabling step-cutting even with inclined disc

- The spindle is powered by a 33 HP motor and its mechanical structure has been dimensioned to accommodate the possibility of plunge cutting thick slabs.

The granite bridge saw is operated and programmed from a touch-screen color monitor installed on a practical hanging control console which is easy to move and rotate facilitating operations. The machine is controlled and managed from the CNC remote PC. Platform system utilized is windows. The operational and management control software installed not only utilize windows to its full potential, but are user friendly and easily interfaced with the user’s system.

The color “Touch-Screen” monitor enables easy and quick machine programming to ensure spare parts are easily sourced in the event of system failure and technical assistance is available at a world level, all electronic and electric components are manufactured by the world’s leading producers. The machine is provided with a convenient portable push-button control panel to facilitate manual machine operations from inside the work area. This portable control panel is provided with the main machine operating controls.

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Drum Building Tips For Working With Drum Wraps

Drum building projects that use drum wraps are my favorite projects to work on. Why? Because the project moves along fast, there's minimal effort for a maximum effect, and you can get really creative with stripes, custom drum wrap designs, color combinations, and more.

Not to mention, drum wraps are very tough. Knocking your kick mixer truck drum roller on the door handle of the club isn't as devastating with a wrap than it is when you have a nice high gloss lacquer. Chips and dents versus light scratches in a wrap? I'll take the scratches!

When I was building for a major custom company, I was wrapping between three to five drum kits a day. So here's some tips.

#1: My favorite option: Design Your Own Drum Set.

You can send custom designs and even your favorite fabric to get laminated. This is honestly the easiest drum building project to assure that the outcome is a 100% unique drum set. If you are a graphic designer, than you have no excuse!

#2: Sand Before Gluing

And you thought you could escape the sand paper! Sand the back of the drum wrap with #320 grit paper before applying your glue. This allows the glue to latch onto something... and helps with creating an unstoppable bond.

#3: Precise Drum Wrap Ordering

A common mistake with first time drum building ordering is NOT being precise enough when ordering your wrap pieces.

When you order, give exact widths and order the length of the drum wrap with a 1.5 " overlap for all drums 16" in diameter and under. Any projects with drums OVER 16" need a full laminate sheet (54"), plus a patch piece.

To figure out your patch piece length... find the circumference of your drum shell, add 3" to it and minus this number by 54. Always round up. For example, an 18" drum would need a 6" patch piece (do the math!!).

#4: Batch Your Drum Wrapping

If you haven't heard me use the drum building term "batching"... it simply means to group all similar drum building activities together.

At one point when I was working for a big custom company, I was wrapping three to five drum kits in one day. That's a lot of measuring, cutting, gluing, rolling, etc.

The solution? Batch all your activities! Whether or not you're building for a company or doing it on a lesser scale... you'll save a ton of time and hassle by batching your work.

For example, glue all the wraps at once. While they are drying, glue all the drum shells. Wrap all the shells, and then use the laminate roller on all the shells. Tape all the overlap seams, and then trim any wrap of the shells, etc.

#5: Use The J-Roller

An often overlooked step in drum building is the post drum wrap treatment. Most drum building gurus have huge laminate press' to rid the drum of air bubbles and to help cement the bond of the wrap.

However, the same effect can be achieved with a hand-held J-Roller. Using a J-Roller around the drums with good pressure helps your drum building project tremendously. It helps avoid wrap warping, bubbling, sound deadening (tone is killed from air bubbles), and more.

#6: Let Them Do the Cuts

Let the suppliers that you order your wrap from cut your stripes. Letting them do the work cuts down the necessary tools in the drum building project and also guarantees that if someone messes up, it's not you and it WILL be replaced.

But if you're deep into some crazy drum building ideas and you want to cut wrap yourself...the straight edge cutting jig gets the job done.

#7: Wrap Your Tom and Snare Drum Hoops

A cool drum building trick is to wrap your wood hoops. You can do it with traditional wood hoops, wood hoops with t-rod holes, and regular triple flanged metal hoops (use a different glue like "Gorilla Glue").

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Granite Stone Bridge Saw

Simple, precise and sturdy stone granite bridge saw, ideal for the most frequent processing.Equipped with ø 800mm circular blade, manually inclinable in any position from 0° to 90°, with possibility of step-cutting, even inclined.User interface with keyboard on a mobile arm and lined display for control, command and programming.

Distinguishing constructive characteristics

The performances of the Easycut FE 800 are further enhanced by:

- Cast-iron bridge and spindle carriage to insure rigidity and dampen vibrations, thus guaranteeing the maximum accuracy and life of the tools.

- Movement of the bridge along the runways by means of rolling elements to allow for the maximum displacement speed and therefore a higher productivity.

- Displacement of the spindle carriage along the bridge by means of prismatic guides in an oil bath that assure extreme precision and rigidity.

- Vertical movement of the spindle on prismatic guides with bronze-lined gibs to adjust the play.

- Movements of the bridge and the spindle carriage by means of a pinion meshed to a precision rack so as to guarantee the highest operation reliability.

- Protection and lubrication of all guides.

- Spindle inclination from 0° to 90° with possibility of step-cutting. The 25 kW spindle motor and the rugged mechanical structure allow the Easycut FE 800 to easily cut even thick materials in a single passage.

The control unit of the Easycut FE 800, equipped with display, performs the function of command/ control console that enables the operator to program the operations within and out of the work area. The machine is supplied with a convenient portable push-button control panel to facilitate the worktable rotation and the Y axes movement.

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Everyone can benefit from having a smart phone

The smart phone and especially the Pda phone can be a simple laptop that you can take anywhere. This devicecan take the place of a small laptop keeping you connected via phone and the Internet to all the information you need. Extremely useful for students and in-the-field professionals such as real-estate agents, builders, architects...

Although they are slightly different creatures, the line between a Pda Phone and a Smart Phone is blurring real fast. Smart phones are usually smaller and offer less features than a Pda phone which is more related to a PDA (Personal Digital Assistant) or a Handheld PC.

Increasingly, these smart and pda phones come equipped with countless games, MP3, camera, video... all to entertain you. Important on those long plane or car trips with unexpected stop-overs. Also great to keep any complaining off-spring totally enthralled and completely oblivious to their surroundings for hours at a time. Save big on your headache meds by getting a smart phone for little junior or little miss!

Just admit it, we have all been lost at some time in our lives. Now you don't have to be; many of these smart pda phones come with a GPS system to keep you in touch with your location at all times. Become totally grounded with a smart phone!

There has to be something said about style; these smart phones are sleek and stylist. Fashion should not be a reason to buy a high quality chinese phone but sadly it will be a major factor for many who do buy one.

You can expect the "Cool" factor to leap-jump when the iPhone hits the market. The iPhone may do for smart phones what the iPod did for MP3 players. Hey, there is nothing cooler than an Apple anything!

Besides the cool factor, the iPhone will probably revolutionize how we perceive and look at smart phones. It will elevate the smart phone to unheard of heights and place it center stage in our lives.

Most of us will be smart enough to quickly grab one of these techno marvels. How about you? Will you be smart enough to get a smart phone or will you take the opposite route?

While you're making up your mind, just remember you don't have to be an Einstein to appreciate the smart phone. Nor does being a prime candidate for the next Jackass video necessarily rule you out -- everyone can benefit from having a smart phone.

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