I'd expect nothing less. they know those machines because that's there life if they aren't cautious consistently. I'm going into the program soon and I can't wait
I'm always interested in anything mechanical. I knew the principles of wind generation, but seeing how everything is laid out, and the brief description of how it operates.... good stuff. Thanks 👍🇳🇿
I’m fascinated by these things! Past a truck carrying one of the blades and fully realized how huge these things are. I enjoyed the information presented in this video!
@stromsky58 Do you really think that nuclear or gas plants never received public money??? And for nuclear plants, our grand grand grand children will still pay for keeping them secure after they stopped producing.
@@michelbaguette3106, wind turbines cannot be considered as a substitute for nuclear power unless cold thermonuclear synthesis comes true. So there is no point to compare them at all as wind power is not capable to continuously produce enough electricity to maintain steady economical growth of a modern country. There is no replacement for nuclear power available so far. All these talks against nuclear power heard here and there are just dirty games of any kind of left-ish political crooks who manipulate the ignorant minds of their electorate . The fact is that the contemporary nuclear power technology is the most cleanest yet natural environment friendly in comparison with the others. The cause of Chernobyl disaster was just a result of isolated anti-human Soviet regime where people's lives were valued about zero.
@@MSM5500 I don't know any country that still uses graphite moderated reactors. Current 3rd gen and beyond tend to be much safer. I wish 4th gen would come online in the USA sooner rather than later.
@@williamgoodwin3325 14 out of the 15 reactors in operation here in the UK are AGR which are graphite-moderated Russia is still using about 10 RBMK-1000 reactors, the same type to Chernobyl. They were modified after the accident.
First time seeing the internal mechanism of a Wind Turbine. Hard to believe that there is at least 6-tonnes of equipment up there. At 23% service factor, the gearbox and drive should survive. A great explanation of how it operates.
I live in northern Oklahoma, USA, and these things are everywhere. Some are very close to the highways and the size can be appreciated, and encountering a blade being transported really brings it home. Thanks for the tour.
Thanks so much for sharing this. I really love to see what makes things like this work. As a diesel / gas generator service engineer I understand how this machine works but seeing how it's built is really cool! Thanks again!
Extensive refurbishments of the DkIT wind turbine have taken place and included the replacement of the turbine's gearbox. The recent upgrade is expected to secure an additional 10 years of operation for the turbine. The 859 kW turbine has been in operation since October 2005 and powers approximately one third of the campus' total electricity consumption.
and how much did that cost and will the wind turbine ever return the cost in electricity? not even a quarter of it, wind power is just stupid. climate change is bullshit.
Great insight into the build just subscribed and it’s a nice compact turbine I also have built a homemade 650 watts wind turbine, a treadmill motor turbine and a little but powerful ametek 30v turbine and built 2 diy solar panels, be careful in high winds one of my first turbines blew up 😕and now have only 2 wonderful turbines working daily 😊it’s very satisfying watching those things working, keep up the good work buddy 👍
A lot has changed since me working on the 250 KW models in the early 90's. Very happy to see, the Midas display and keypad has remained the same. Thanks for showing us around. Thank you.
I would have guessed that the gear box and generator of all things would be among the LONGEST lasting components. Those are both VERY mature technologies!
Loved the dry run of the process of connecting to the safety line, climbing the ladder, and then disconnecting from the safety line. Better to get people familiar with the process while on the ground where you can show them in a safe place! 👍🏼
What a glider! How over engineered can you make it? Was it a "euro design?" I had several grabs for wire and regular rope, one for a single tower! My fav was one that you cocked it horizontal, then placed on cable, then twisted 90 degrees, then clipped a carabineer through the hole! Slick and fast and was used often in dark towers by feel alone.
Great tour! I worked for five years mainly servicing Vestas V-39's bought used from Ireland. I was on the commissioning crew and we replaced VERY OLD Win-Dane 500 kw units using adapter plates! Shocked at the hydro station location! Tough as hell replacing the pump inside the tank on any day but that hub-end location would really suck considering it's a two-man repair. Loved seeing how similar our V-39's were to your model. We also had 2 new V-90's! Those were nice! Location is Palm Springs, California where the industry goes back to the eighties.
I always wanted to see the inside of one of these wind turbines from the bottom base to the top generator so I can better understand how it works. Thank you for the video upload.
Vestas world # 1 wind turbine, i proud that i am also working on Vestas V90 at zorlu pakistan, our great achievement is we repair the pitch cylinder at height in hub change orings
Well, I had absolutely NO idea that what appears to the untrained as simply a wind turbine would be so mechanically complex with that many different systems! Thanks for sharing.
But still futile overall, and very damaging to landscapes in great numbers. This video just shows one isolated machine of several hundred thousand on the planet already. Wind turbines are a fail because so many are required vs. much denser power sources.
@@falseprogress Do you not understand the point of clean energy? No shit there is going to be more required. It is a electricity producing machine vs a giant coal burning plant etc. They may disrupt the natural look of a landscape but they preserve the health of the landscape by not using natural resources for fuel. It's amazing how uneducated people are about simple things like how our grid gets its energy.
@@falseprogress Please dont be stupid, its so simple not to be. every mechanical system of producing electrical energy uses the same principles. Ie Turbine-Gearbox-Generator. nuclear, same coal, same Gas, same Solar heated water, same Waste furnace, same
I'm surprised the transmission can't use some kind of simple convection cooling, lord knows there is plenty of wind just outside that tower for cooling. Very surprised to hear about the cables that simply twist up to 3x, but it makes sense, must be cheaper than some huge slip ring and the maintenance for that. What an awesome video!
amazing how that much weight is supported and stable at that height with such a narrow vertical tubular support structure, and all the forces on it from the spinning blades
Towers collapse more often than you think, and blades snap and gearboxes fail. Such problems are downplayed by the industry just like bird & bat deaths. But all that aside, the ruination of scenery is undeniable, so they spin them as "beautiful."
what because massive concrete cooling towers, coal fields and chimneys isn't 'undeniable ruination of scenery'? unless we tackle how we obtain energy there won't be any scenery left, i'm not saying wind turbines are the final answer but they're a step in the right direction.
Look up the word "cumulative" (the sum environmental impacts from ALL sources) instead of offering that feeble canard whenever someone criticizes this obvious blight. Wind turbines exist solely for Man to pretend something is actually being done about the carbon problem, but they're just fossil fuel based business as usual. We need major economic downsizing if saving the planet is the actual goal. ua-cam.com/video/wA24uXEz-Ho/v-deo.html (windschmerz)
i was doing chain and rigging certifications for 9 1/2 years and got to go up the Vestas 1.5MW and the V90 3MW turbines in Manuatu, New Zealand. got a good pic of me sitting on the roof of the V90 nacelle with the head of the crane they put the blades on with behind me then the crane beside the turbine as well. we had to certify the electric chain hoist up them. amazing view on a good day from the top of them 85 odd meters up. wasn't until after i had been up them i noticed the ladders on those are not bolted to the wall but stuck on with magnets that allow the ladder to move on the wall slightly to stop compression and expansion of the ladder with the movement of the tower
@@MIGASHOORAY when you open the hatch in the floor of the nacelle you have to double lanyard in and open it while standing over the hole looking down about 80 meters. the guy that took my pic on the roof wasn't even wearing a harness
I’m in training right now for fiber blade technician for appia wind services this training is worth it and my brother and a friend of ours is doing this knowing all this Information first hand is good to know
Very good video. What is the coupling type between turbine rotor and gear box (low speed) and coupling type between gear box (high speed) and generator? Thanks.
I am from Brazil and I was very happy for the beautiful work of Vestas. I am very cofiante of one day if God allows to come to work in this company that marks life. But, it is a pity that there is no targeted training in Brazil. I am a person who loves wind turbines and I am working hard to study in this area. It's been a while since I've been following Vestas's work and I know it's a great technology company and I also know that one day I will have the great opportunity to be part of a brilliant team. I apologize for some mistake in writing, therefore, I do not speak or write well in English ... I am using the translator ... kkkk ... but soon I will learn. A big hug!
Good man doing the tour. Always appreciate a person who knows his machine well.
Thanks
Really knows what he’s saying! Rarely this days.
Thinking the same thing.
I'd expect nothing less. they know those machines because that's there life if they aren't cautious consistently. I'm going into the program soon and I can't wait
I'm thinking of a way I can collect diffuse energy and make money out of it. gadzooks!
I'm always interested in anything mechanical. I knew the principles of wind generation, but seeing how everything is laid out, and the brief description of how it operates.... good stuff. Thanks 👍🇳🇿
I’m fascinated by these things!
Past a truck carrying one of the blades and fully realized how huge these things are. I enjoyed the information presented in this video!
Windmills in the North Atlantic are about 50 percent larger.
My grandpa drove oversized loads including windmill blades
Always been impressed by these, and seeing one up close is amazing.
Where I am at they're everywhere
Many thanks for the detailed tour... this stuff is always appreciated !!
This is a really good video, it is, informative and doesn't waste the time of the viewer. I wish more on youtube was this good!
He seemed proud when he said that the turbine has already paid for itself. He must love his job.
@stromsky58 Do you really think that nuclear or gas plants never received public money???
And for nuclear plants, our grand grand grand children will still pay for keeping them secure after they stopped producing.
@@michelbaguette3106, wind turbines cannot be considered as a substitute for nuclear power unless cold thermonuclear synthesis comes true. So there is no point to compare them at all as wind power is not capable to continuously produce enough electricity to maintain steady economical growth of a modern country. There is no replacement for nuclear power available so far. All these talks against nuclear power heard here and there are just dirty games of any kind of left-ish political crooks who manipulate the ignorant minds of their electorate . The fact is that the contemporary nuclear power technology is the most cleanest yet natural environment friendly in comparison with the others. The cause of Chernobyl disaster was just a result of isolated anti-human Soviet regime where people's lives were valued about zero.
Rat Maiden Clearly he is not the accountant. Wind generators cost more in maintenance than what they produce. Ask the Norwegians.
@@MSM5500 I don't know any country that still uses graphite moderated reactors. Current 3rd gen and beyond tend to be much safer. I wish 4th gen would come online in the USA sooner rather than later.
@@williamgoodwin3325
14 out of the 15 reactors in operation here in the UK are AGR which are graphite-moderated
Russia is still using about 10 RBMK-1000 reactors, the same type to Chernobyl. They were modified after the accident.
Thanks for the tour, very interesting.
Well done tour, guy knows his stuff
Thanks for posting, very interesting stuff.
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What a brilliant bit of gear you guys have built. great video 📹 thank you for Sharing Australia 🌏
Great video. Always wanted to tour one, but they don't do that around my area.
This is just as good!
First time seeing the internal mechanism of a Wind Turbine. Hard to believe that there is at least 6-tonnes of equipment up there. At 23% service factor, the gearbox and drive should survive. A great explanation of how it operates.
I live in northern Oklahoma, USA, and these things are everywhere. Some are very close to the highways and the size can be appreciated, and encountering a blade being transported really brings it home. Thanks for the tour.
Thanks for sharing
Excellent tour! Love the detailed explanation. Cheers mate
Thanks so much for sharing this. I really love to see what makes things like this work. As a diesel / gas generator service engineer I understand how this machine works but seeing how it's built is really cool! Thanks again!
Professional in his field. Very technical guy. 👍👍👍
edit: and the view @11:17 is awesome, I wish I had my dinner at there.
What a fantastic tour! Great tour guide!
Great to see the WT back producing!! Great tour William!
Excellent video. Thanks for posting.
Really enjoyed the tour, I have always wondered what was inside and how it worked. Thanks
Love the cleanliness of the design. All very minimalistic.
function first always makes the most sense.
EXCELLENT! Thanks for posting this.
Glad you enjoyed it!
I worked on this machine a few weeks back, for being the age it is it's still very clean and well maintained
What model is this ? V80?
@@Parambimathan Vestas V-52. It’s an old NM design.
Extensive refurbishments of the DkIT wind turbine have taken place and included the replacement of the turbine's gearbox. The recent upgrade is expected to secure an additional 10 years of operation for the turbine. The 859 kW turbine has been in operation since October 2005 and powers approximately one third of the campus' total electricity consumption.
and how much did that cost and will the wind turbine ever return the cost in electricity?
not even a quarter of it, wind power is just stupid.
climate change is bullshit.
@@axeman2638 I guess you missed the part where they said it was 5-8 years to pay for itself.
@@jcc4tube nope none here or elsewhere have that short a pay off. That's just bull pats. Especially if the govt subsidies dry up.
@@axeman2638 are you stupid or what
@@dwh5512 even quicker now the cost of power has more than doubled. Wind turbines are an absolute no brainer
Great insight into the build just subscribed and it’s a nice compact turbine I also have built a homemade 650 watts wind turbine, a treadmill motor turbine and a little but powerful ametek 30v turbine and built 2 diy solar panels, be careful in high winds one of my first turbines blew up 😕and now have only 2 wonderful turbines working daily 😊it’s very satisfying watching those things working, keep up the good work buddy 👍
Thank you. I already knew most of the concepts described here, but to see it in a working wind gen was quite enlightening.
Excelente video ! A pesar de que no hablo inglés pude comprender muchas cosas del funcionamiento y el equipo, felicitaciones!
Thanks a lot for uploading, currently applying for jobs as a turbine technician so finding out about them as much as possible
Absolutely awesome. Everywhere should have one of these
Fascinating ! Thanks for the video
A lot has changed since me working on the 250 KW models in the early 90's. Very happy to see, the Midas display and keypad has remained the same. Thanks for showing us around. Thank you.
Thanks for sharing 👍
Very interesting. But watching this makes my whole body tense!
It was a long ladder climb to the top.
Great video. I really enjoyed it.
thanks, very well explained,amazing insight
Glad to hear that you found it informative.
I would have guessed that the gear box and generator of all things would be among the LONGEST lasting components. Those are both VERY mature technologies!
Just felt so nervous watching...great video!
Fantastic ! Thanks for sharing. Always wondered about the controls and engineering.
Very interesting video, thanks for the upload. I quite fancy a job working on these now!
Loved the dry run of the process of connecting to the safety line, climbing the ladder, and then disconnecting from the safety line. Better to get people familiar with the process while on the ground where you can show them in a safe place! 👍🏼
Nah, it's better to do it while they're falling: they'll pay more attention.
What a glider! How over engineered can you make it? Was it a "euro design?" I had several grabs for wire and regular rope, one for a single tower! My fav was one that you cocked it horizontal, then placed on cable, then twisted 90 degrees, then clipped a carabineer through the hole! Slick and fast and was used often in dark towers by feel alone.
Great tour! I worked for five years mainly servicing Vestas V-39's bought used from Ireland. I was on the commissioning crew and we replaced VERY OLD Win-Dane 500 kw units using adapter plates! Shocked at the hydro station location! Tough as hell replacing the pump inside the tank on any day but that hub-end location would really suck considering it's a two-man repair. Loved seeing how similar our V-39's were to your model. We also had 2 new V-90's! Those were nice! Location is Palm Springs, California where the industry goes back to the eighties.
If you don't mind me asking, are you still in the wind industry? And if so, did you move to a supervisor position something to that degree?
Very informative and excellent video. Keep up the good work 👌💪👍
Great Video ! Thanks for posting this .
Thanks a lot for the amazing video.
What is the kind of electrical generator being used?
a great tour by a person who truly understands that equipment ... smart match
Good to hear you found it useful.
Bravo - a very comprehensive tour.
Glad you enjoyed it!
This is the kind of guy I would want taking care of this machine. Sounds like he's extremely competent.
Great video, thanks for posting.
This dude is a freaking boss breaking g everything down
Neat stuff, thanks for sharing.
Our pleasure!
I always wanted to see the inside of one of these wind turbines from the bottom base to the top generator so I can better understand how it works. Thank you for the video upload.
that's a great video and very interesting - thank you
Wow so much engineering you have all the areas covered nicely done
Awesome tour. 😉👌🏼
Thanks for sharing. 💯🏆
Great to hear that you found it informative.
Tank you very goood tour ,I hope use the safe energy more than past
Thank you, no annoying music or fancy effects, just interesting facts.
Very interesting! Thanks for the extensive review
Glad you liked it!
This has been my go to video for terrible insomnia
Interesting video, thanx from Mexico
Excellent! Very well done! Thanks for such an educational video and thanks big time for NOT having background music!!!
Vestas world # 1 wind turbine, i proud that i am also working on Vestas V90 at zorlu pakistan, our great achievement is we repair the pitch cylinder at height in hub change orings
Hey Muhammad, I am in shells at Vestas windsor Making the V120. I think they are both blades for the 2 MW platform or is the V90 1.6?
From my time at Vestas. Great memories
Very detailed and informative video, thanks.
always a huge fan of wind turbines.
Lol. Good pun!
Appreciate, technologies are always in improvement
Good job thanks so much for the knowledge
Cool. Thanks. Watched the whole thing. What are the annual operating / maintenance costs?
The bearings and gearbox will need some oil, all components need inspection, but there are no costs for spark plugs, fuel, exhaust etc
Well, I had absolutely NO idea that what appears to the untrained as simply a wind turbine would be so mechanically complex with that many different systems! Thanks for sharing.
But still futile overall, and very damaging to landscapes in great numbers. This video just shows one isolated machine of several hundred thousand on the planet already. Wind turbines are a fail because so many are required vs. much denser power sources.
@@falseprogress Do you not understand the point of clean energy? No shit there is going to be more required. It is a electricity producing machine vs a giant coal burning plant etc. They may disrupt the natural look of a landscape but they preserve the health of the landscape by not using natural resources for fuel. It's amazing how uneducated people are about simple things like how our grid gets its energy.
@@falseprogress Please dont be stupid, its so simple not to be.
every mechanical system of producing electrical energy uses the same principles. Ie Turbine-Gearbox-Generator.
nuclear, same
coal, same
Gas, same
Solar heated water, same
Waste furnace, same
Great video! Many thanks for uploading :)
Good to hear you found it interesting.
On a project working for Azari. Under Vestas. Love what we do. (I build the lifts)
Thank you so much for the insight.
Glad it was helpful!
Thanks for your sharing
Thanks for watching!
I'm surprised the transmission can't use some kind of simple convection cooling, lord knows there is plenty of wind just outside that tower for cooling. Very surprised to hear about the cables that simply twist up to 3x, but it makes sense, must be cheaper than some huge slip ring and the maintenance for that. What an awesome video!
Thank you!
You're welcome!
your info was helpful and clear
Thanks!
Very interesting and presented well by the engineer.
Realy great explanation!!! Truly appreciation
Glad you liked it
Thank you for this!
Very informative. Thank you for sharing..
Thank you sir for make and offer video safety protection.I am support your video.
Great video. Thank you alot.
amazing how that much weight is supported and stable at that height with such a narrow vertical tubular support structure, and all the forces on it from the spinning blades
Towers collapse more often than you think, and blades snap and gearboxes fail. Such problems are downplayed by the industry just like bird & bat deaths. But all that aside, the ruination of scenery is undeniable, so they spin them as "beautiful."
what because massive concrete cooling towers, coal fields and chimneys isn't 'undeniable ruination of scenery'?
unless we tackle how we obtain energy there won't be any scenery left, i'm not saying wind turbines are the final answer but they're a step in the right direction.
Look up the word "cumulative" (the sum environmental impacts from ALL sources) instead of offering that feeble canard whenever someone criticizes this obvious blight. Wind turbines exist solely for Man to pretend something is actually being done about the carbon problem, but they're just fossil fuel based business as usual. We need major economic downsizing if saving the planet is the actual goal. ua-cam.com/video/wA24uXEz-Ho/v-deo.html (windschmerz)
More beautiful than coal plants all over the land.
Respect Silence How many birds and bats do they kill?
Very interesting! I hope to be able to work with wind turbines one day.
Very interesting and informative video. Nice video work given the really small amount of space you had
This was a cool tour!
Hope you found it informative.
This man is an asset to his company .
it's interesting to see the kind of machines my brother worked on before he got into the site management side of things
what do you mean by site management
My 3 year old boy loves this video so much!
i was doing chain and rigging certifications for 9 1/2 years and got to go up the Vestas 1.5MW and the V90 3MW turbines in Manuatu, New Zealand. got a good pic of me sitting on the roof of the V90 nacelle with the head of the crane they put the blades on with behind me then the crane beside the turbine as well. we had to certify the electric chain hoist up them. amazing view on a good day from the top of them 85 odd meters up. wasn't until after i had been up them i noticed the ladders on those are not bolted to the wall but stuck on with magnets that allow the ladder to move on the wall slightly to stop compression and expansion of the ladder with the movement of the tower
Weetbix1969 if you suffer from vertigo you are fckd
@@MIGASHOORAY when you open the hatch in the floor of the nacelle you have to double lanyard in and open it while standing over the hole looking down about 80 meters. the guy that took my pic on the roof wasn't even wearing a harness
excellent, many thanks for your video, however where is the braking system? it never mentioned!
I’m in training right now for fiber blade technician for appia wind services this training is worth it and my brother and a friend of ours is doing this knowing all this Information first hand is good to know
Great job.
Can you demonstrate a video on the lightning protection system of wind turbine.
Fascinating!
Would like to see an update to see what has changed and improved in 8 years. Still capacity factor of 23%?
after reaching BEP ... electricity should be freeeeeeeee....
Capacity factor depends on the variability of wind speed
I like the tour!
Very good video. What is the coupling type between turbine rotor and gear box (low speed) and coupling type between gear box (high speed) and generator?
Thanks.
Wow masahallah will don very nice good job My brother 💝 love from Pakistan 🇵🇰🇵🇰💕🌹💐🏏🏏
Great video although I feel small now with my 700 watt turbine up on a 70 foot tower. 😂
👍very interesting always wondered how a wind turbine actually works .
I am from Brazil and I was very happy for the beautiful work of Vestas. I am very cofiante of one day if God allows to come to work in this company that marks life. But, it is a pity that there is no targeted training in Brazil. I am a person who loves wind turbines and I am working hard to study in this area. It's been a while since I've been following Vestas's work and I know it's a great technology company and I also know that one day I will have the great opportunity to be part of a brilliant team.
I apologize for some mistake in writing, therefore, I do not speak or write well in English ... I am using the translator ... kkkk ... but soon I will learn.
A big hug!
Your English is great. I wish you luck.