Dead batteries stall wind turbine

PORTSMOUTH — The latest ailment to stop Portsmouth’s wind turbine is one that will sound familiar to most motorists in cold weather.

The batteries are dead.
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The decision was then made to replace the year-and-a-half old batteries. Replacements were found and will be installed this Wednesday and Thursday.
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“It drives me crazy to see it stopped but that’s where we are,” he said.

Mr. Crosby said the turbine has 30 of the 12-volt batteries (each about the size of a motorcycle battery) that are connected in series up in the turbine’s nacelle.

When they arrive they won’t have to be lugged up the vertical ladder to the nacelle.