Round & Round Traditional Cache
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This should be a nice easy cashe and dash with the cashe with a good parking area next to the Nympsfield Wind Turbine. DO NOT ENTER THE TURBINE FIELD. When walking to cache site please: - NOTE THAT THE ROAD IS SINGLE TRACK AND CAN BE VERY BUSY - LOOK AFTER KIDS & ANIMALS, please drive carefully.
This is a small rock key safe. Hopefully this will be my first of several new cashe around the Stroud 5-Valleys. The Lynch Knoll Wind Turbine (Nympsfield, Gloucestershire) was constructed in December 1996. Construction took two days while the planning had taken four years. The following information is taken directly from a piece of literature that was obtained during an open day. The turbine is owned by Next Generation, and is the Enercon E40. The operation of the turbine is completely automatic and computer controlled. The speed and direction of the wind are monitored by the instruments at the top of the turbine and the information is fed to the turbine controller at the base. The controller then ensures that the turbine is turned to the correct direction, using the yaw motors, and that the turbine blades are pitched to the correct angle to maintain the optimum speed of rotation, using the blade pitch motors. There are numerous fault sensors within the turbine, if a fault occurs the turbine will shut itself down, reset all systems and then restart automatically. If the turbine detects a serious fault and cannot restart it will 'call' the service engineers and provide details of the fault, via computer modem. The turbine has no brake in the conventional sense. Stopping the turbine is achieved via an aerodynamic braking action. The blades rotate or pitch to a position 90 degrees from the operational position and this has the effect of stopping the turbine within seconds. Each blade has its own pitch motor and battery back-up should the mains fail. Any one blade can stop the turbine rotating. Turbine Dimensions Hub height: 42m Rotor diameter: 40m Blade length: 19m Hope you enjoy the views around. Nice pub in Nympsfield village or back down in Nailsworth Congrats to Gruntyv8 for FTF.
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Fgnaq ybbxvat ng gur gheovar. Raq bs gheovar srapr yvar ba gur evtug, unatvat sebz terra srapr jver. Lbh ner ybbxvat sbe n oynpx ovfba ghor nggnpurq gb gur srapr.
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