The web is full of web pages stating that Windmills in Ireland turn the wrong direction from every other Windmill in the world.
Three questions:
1) Is this true
2) Why should it matter which direction since helicopters in Russia turn a different way from the others but still fly..
3) if your Desk Fan was a Windmill, which direction would it turn?
(if onfused this is the opposite side of when you turn it on)
2006-12-14 01:09:05 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Engineering
lol I was going to go out but now I am googlin to see what happened to donkeyote (your spelling)
I am just addicted to information and outside there's plenty of a$$es so i'd rather stay in
2006-12-14 01:44:17 · update #1
the wind mills now designed can rotate in any of the direction of the prevailing wind ... it is now designed so but it can turn either in clockwise or anticlockwise only thrice.. then it does untwisting.. it comes to its original position..again when it is started and operated at optimum wind speeds.. it is like this only every where.. i think it wont be different in Ireland.. The information u got may be wrong...
2006-12-14 01:23:06 · answer #1 · answered by PRIYA 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Every manufacturer of rotating equipment has defined a "preferred" direction of rotation. This is true, regardless of what the equipment actually is (a windmill, a gear arrangement, an electrical machine, a rolling mill, a compressor, an engine driveshaft, a boat's propellor, etc).
Presumably, the supplier of Ireland's windmills preferred one direction (I don't know which it is, so let's say anticlockwise when looking from the nacelle toward the blade). Another manufacturer (the one that built Germany's North Sea windfarm units) might have chosen clockwise rotation, simply because it was the "usual" convention.
There is no "right" or "wrong" direction ... it's simply convention.
2006-12-14 01:30:02 · answer #2 · answered by CanTexan 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is no "wrong" direction. It depends how the gearing and in more complicated models how the shape of the blade is configured.
As for the deskfan if the gearing was not there it would turn the towards the raised edge
2006-12-14 01:14:16 · answer #3 · answered by delprofundo 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It makes no difference which way they turn. It's all convention
2006-12-14 01:24:00 · answer #4 · answered by Gene 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Please try to get out more. thinking about windmills just remember what happened to donkeyote.
2006-12-14 01:14:03 · answer #5 · answered by legend 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋