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 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!
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 👍🇳🇿
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.
@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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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!
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.
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 👍
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.
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
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.
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
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. th-cam.com/video/wA24uXEz-Ho/w-d-xo.html (windschmerz)
LOVED THE INFO !! I LOVE THESE THINGS !! I WAS FASCINATED TO HEAR THAT THE BLADES ONLY TURN AT ABOUT 16-29 RPM, (A FACT I HAVE ALWAYS WANTED TO KNOW) AND THE HST IS ONLY SPINNING AT 1600RPM !! WOW. DID I HEAR YOU SAY THAT THIS WAS ONLY A 50kW TURBINE? HMMM. THE BIG ONES ARE 30MW+ AND HAVE BLADES THAT ARE 90 METERS LONG EACH !! AMAZING STUFF.
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!
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
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!
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
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 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
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 👍🇳🇿
Love the cleanliness of the design. All very minimalistic.
function first always makes the most sense.
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 👍
Many thanks for the detailed tour... this stuff is always appreciated !!
Always been impressed by these, and seeing one up close is amazing.
Where I am at they're everywhere
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.
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
Well done tour, guy knows his stuff
Thanks for posting, very interesting stuff.
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Glad to hear you found it informative
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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.
What a fantastic tour! Great tour guide!
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
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!
Excellent tour! Love the detailed explanation. Cheers mate
Professional in his field. Very technical guy. 👍👍👍
edit: and the view @11:17 is awesome, I wish I had my dinner at there.
Great to see the WT back producing!! Great tour William!
Excellent video. Thanks for posting.
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!
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?
Great video. Always wanted to tour one, but they don't do that around my area.
This is just as good!
What a brilliant bit of gear you guys have built. great video 📹 thank you for Sharing Australia 🌏
Absolutely awesome. Everywhere should have one of these
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.
a great tour by a person who truly understands that equipment ... smart match
Good to hear you found it useful.
Thank you, no annoying music or fancy effects, just interesting facts.
Thanks a lot for uploading, currently applying for jobs as a turbine technician so finding out about them as much as possible
Really enjoyed the tour, I have always wondered what was inside and how it worked. Thanks
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 👍
This has been my go to video for terrible insomnia
This is the kind of guy I would want taking care of this machine. Sounds like he's extremely competent.
Fantastic ! Thanks for sharing. Always wondered about the controls and engineering.
Thank you. I already knew most of the concepts described here, but to see it in a working wind gen was quite enlightening.
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 Video ! Thanks for posting this .
thanks, very well explained,amazing insight
Glad to hear that you found it informative.
EXCELLENT! Thanks for posting this.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Just felt so nervous watching...great video!
Fascinating ! Thanks for the video
Great video, thanks for posting.
Bravo - a very comprehensive tour.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Excelente video ! A pesar de que no hablo inglés pude comprender muchas cosas del funcionamiento y el equipo, felicitaciones!
Very interesting! Thanks for the extensive review
Glad you liked it!
Great video! Many thanks for uploading :)
Good to hear you found it interesting.
Excellent! Very well done! Thanks for such an educational video and thanks big time for NOT having background music!!!
Awesome tour. 😉👌🏼
Thanks for sharing. 💯🏆
Great to hear that you found it informative.
Very interesting video, thanks for the upload. I quite fancy a job working on these now!
Wow so much engineering you have all the areas covered nicely done
always a huge fan of wind turbines.
Lol. Good pun!
Interesting video, thanx from Mexico
This dude is a freaking boss breaking g everything down
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?
Very informative and excellent video. Keep up the good work 👌💪👍
Very detailed and informative video, thanks.
I like the tour!
Thank you so much for the insight.
Glad it was helpful!
This was a cool tour!
Hope you found it informative.
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.
Realy great explanation!!! Truly appreciation
Glad you liked it
that's a great video and very interesting - thank you
Thank you sir for make and offer video safety protection.I am support your video.
Awesome video.
Tank you very goood tour ,I hope use the safe energy more than past
Great video. Thanks
Glad you liked it!
Very interesting and presented well by the engineer.
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
This man is an asset to his company .
My 3 year old boy loves this video so much!
Good job thanks so much for the knowledge
Great video ... more please
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. th-cam.com/video/wA24uXEz-Ho/w-d-xo.html (windschmerz)
More beautiful than coal plants all over the land.
Respect Silence How many birds and bats do they kill?
Great video. Thank you alot.
Appreciate, technologies are always in improvement
Thank you for this!
your info was helpful and clear
Thanks!
Excellent and very interesting 😊
Very informative. Thank you for sharing..
Very interesting! I hope to be able to work with wind turbines one day.
Very interesting. Thank you.
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
From my time at Vestas. Great memories
Very interesting, thanks for sharing.
LOVED THE INFO !! I LOVE THESE THINGS !! I WAS FASCINATED TO HEAR THAT THE BLADES ONLY TURN AT ABOUT 16-29 RPM, (A FACT I HAVE ALWAYS WANTED TO KNOW) AND THE HST IS ONLY SPINNING AT 1600RPM !! WOW. DID I HEAR YOU SAY THAT THIS WAS ONLY A 50kW TURBINE? HMMM. THE BIG ONES ARE 30MW+ AND HAVE BLADES THAT ARE 90 METERS LONG EACH !! AMAZING STUFF.
Fascinating!
I have an immense phobia of heights. Just looking at this is making me nervous. Anyone who goes up there has my immense respect.
It is quite a long climb using the ladder.
@@WilliamLyons Makes sense. Also the twisting movements.... no. I can’t handle that.
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.
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
Neat stuff, thanks for sharing.
Our pleasure!
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!
Very interesting and informative video. Nice video work given the really small amount of space you had
👍very interesting always wondered how a wind turbine actually works .
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
These things have changed a lot since this video came out. We now have turbines capable of producing 3.5-6 megawatts of power.
Ah, so that’s what’s inside of those wind turbines. Cool!
a very clear and concise explanation of how wind turbine actually works. thank you for the tour.
You're welcome!