AWP36 and Wind Machine's 101 [RE-wrenches]

[Michael Welch, Home Power]

Carl Emerson wrote at 12:00 AM 07/12/2001 +1200:
  
>Use a high tensile steel wire down through the length of the pole bolted at the
>bottom and attached to the rotating frame at the top. The machine will turn
>freely maybe five revolutions before flicking back. This method has been used
>very successfully on the Clark machines here in NZ for some years. This puts no
>strain on the cable.

I'm no wind weenie, but not too bad on mechanics. Seems to me this scheme could keep a machine from turning fully into the wind as it gets close to that fifth or final turn on the cable. Result? -- lost watts.
  
Michael Welch
  
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