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      <title>23 countries, five continents: a month of TESUP turbines on the move</title>
      <link>https://tesup.com/za/blogs/post/30-days-23-countries-where-our-turbines-went-za</link>
      <guid>https://tesup.com/za/blogs/post/30-days-23-countries-where-our-turbines-went-za</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[<p>Thirty days. Twenty-three countries. Five continents. In the last month, TESUP household wind turbines set off from our workshops to homes, farms and businesses all over the planet, from the Finnish lakes to New Zealand.</p>
<p>TESUP operates locally in 36 countries, and this month's turbines reached far beyond our home markets. Here is the month on a map. We only show countries, so every customer's name and address stays private.</p>
<h2>Five continents in one month</h2>
<p>Most turbines stayed in Europe, but plenty travelled much further: to the United States, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand and Taiwan. Some will start turning in the spring sunshine of the southern hemisphere, while others arrive just in time for the autumn winds of the north.</p>
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  <img src="/media/magefan_blog/tesup-23-countries-world-map-1600x900.png" alt="World map with points in Europe, the USA, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand and Taiwan"/>
  <figcaption>Where TESUP turbines went in the last 30 days.</figcaption>
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<h2>Europe, from the Finnish lakes to the Atlantic</h2>
<p>In Europe, turbines went to 18 countries: the United Kingdom, Ireland, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Portugal, Spain, Italy, Austria, Slovenia, Slovakia, Poland, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Greece and Bulgaria.</p>
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  <img src="/media/magefan_blog/tesup-23-countries-europe-map-1600x1701.png" alt="Map of Europe with points in the 18 countries TESUP turbines went to"/>
  <figcaption>18 countries in Europe, from Ireland to Finland and from Portugal to Greece.</figcaption>
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<h2>One month, one planet</h2>
<p>Put the whole month together and it looks like this. Twenty hours of time difference separate the US West Coast from New Zealand, so somewhere on the map the sun is always up. The longest trip was more than 18,000 km, and the destinations stretch from 61 degrees north to 40 degrees south.</p>
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  <img src="/media/magefan_blog/tesup-23-countries-one-planet-1600x900.jpg" alt="Six cards: 23 countries, 5 continents, 2 hemispheres, 20 hours of time difference, 18,000+ km longest trip, 61°N to 40°S"/>
  <figcaption>The month at a glance.</figcaption>
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<h2>Atlas led the way</h2>
<p>Atlas, our vertical-axis wind turbine, was the most popular choice again. It turns around a vertical shaft, so it catches wind from any direction without turning to face it. That suits rooftops, gardens and gusty sites anywhere on the map.</p>
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  <img src="/media/magefan_blog/tesup-23-countries-atlas-symbol-960x1200.jpg" alt="Atlas symbol: a vertical-axis TESUP wind turbine drawn in navy with green wind lines on white"/>
  <figcaption>Atlas: vertical axis, with three blade sets to match your wind.</figcaption>
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  <img src="/media/magefan_blog/tesup-23-countries-atlas-box-on-pallet-900x1200.jpg" alt="Boxed Atlas wind turbine on a wooden pallet in the TESUP workshop"/>
  <figcaption>An Atlas in its box, on the pallet and ready to leave the workshop.</figcaption>
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<h2>Low wind? No problem</h2>
<p>Every Atlas comes with a choice of blades. The standard set suits everyday wind. The low-wind set starts turning at just 2 m/s, for places where the wind is light for much of the year. This month the two were almost neck and neck, and some customers took both so they can swap later.</p>
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  <img src="/media/magefan_blog/tesup-23-countries-atlas-blade-sets-1600x896.jpg" alt="Atlas mounting disc with positions for the low, moderate and high wind blade sets"/>
  <figcaption>The mounting disc has a position for each blade set, so you can change sets later.</figcaption>
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<h2>Magnum, as a complete kit</h2>
<p>Magnum is our horizontal-axis turbine with a 15 kW motor and up to 12 kW peak. Most Magnum customers chose the complete kit, with the blade set and charge controller in the same order, and many added the battery version for a battery system.</p>
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  <img src="/media/magefan_blog/tesup-23-countries-magnum-symbol-v2-960x1200.jpg" alt="Magnum symbol: a three-blade TESUP wind turbine with tail fin drawn in navy with green wind lines on white"/>
  <figcaption>Magnum: horizontal axis, for open and steady wind.</figcaption>
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<h2>Boxed, labelled and on the way</h2>
<p>Every turbine leaves our workshop in its own box, labelled with its serial number and wrapped on a pallet. We send each order with a tracking number, so customers can follow their turbine on its way to them.</p>
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  <img src="/media/magefan_blog/tesup-23-countries-pallet-ready-1600x1000.jpg" alt="Stacked TESUP boxes wrapped on a pallet, each labelled with a serial number"/>
  <figcaption>Boxes stacked, wrapped and labelled with serial numbers, waiting for collection.</figcaption>
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<h2>Thank you</h2>
<p>To everyone who ordered this month, from the Finnish lakes to New Zealand: thank you. Your turbines are why we keep building. Wherever you are, in one of the 36 countries where we operate locally or beyond, start with the turbine that suits your wind.</p>
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  <img src="/media/magefan_blog/tesup-23-countries-tesup-range-1600x1200.jpg" alt="The TESUP range: Atlas with its blade options, Magnum and a flexible solar panel"/>
  <figcaption>The TESUP range: Atlas with its blade options, Magnum and our flexible solar panels.</figcaption>
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<p>Source: TESUP order data, 26 September to 24 October 2026. Photographs and graphics: TESUP.</p>
<div><h2>Find your turbine</h2><p>Atlas catches wind from any direction, Magnum makes the most of open, steady wind. Both are household wind turbines, assembled and tested in our own workshops.</p><a href="https://tesup.com/za/tesup-vertical-wind-turbines-for-homes.html">Discover Atlas</a><a href="https://tesup.com/za/tesup-horizontal-wind-turbines-for-homes.html">Discover Magnum</a></div>]]></description>
              <pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2026 18:55:30 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>What if our 100,000 wind turbines made 10 kWh today? A windy-day sum from Hammersmith</title>
      <link>https://tesup.com/za/blogs/post/what-if-100000-turbines-made-10-kwh-today-za</link>
      <guid>https://tesup.com/za/blogs/post/what-if-100000-turbines-made-10-kwh-today-za</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[<p>A breezy October afternoon on the Thames at Hammersmith. The clouds are racing, the gulls are hanging in the air and the planes are lining up for Heathrow. It is the kind of day a wind turbine loves, so we did a little sum.</p>
<h2>A windy day on the river</h2>
<p>Walk along the river at Hammersmith on a day like this and you can feel the wind pushing up the Thames. The water is choppy, the light keeps changing and the trees on the far bank bend and settle, bend and settle. Every gust is energy that a turbine could turn into electricity.</p>
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  <img src="/media/magefan_blog/tesup-hammersmith-thames-badge-v2-1600x1000.jpg" alt="The Thames at Hammersmith under a blue sky with fast-moving clouds, with a TESUP badge showing the Atlas and Magnum symbols"/>
  <figcaption>The Thames at Hammersmith on a breezy October afternoon.</figcaption>
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<h2>The windy-day sum</h2>
<p>More than 100,000 TESUP wind turbines have been sold around the world. Imagine each of them making 10 kWh today. That is 1,000,000 kWh, a full gigawatt-hour, in a single day.</p>
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  <img src="/media/magefan_blog/tesup-hammersmith-our-100k-sum-1600x860.jpg" alt="Infographic: 100,000 TESUP turbines sold times 10 kWh equals 1,000,000 kWh, enough for 135,000 UK homes, 37 million cups of tea or 6 million km in an electric car"/>
  <figcaption>Our 100,000 turbines, 10 kWh each, one windy day.</figcaption>
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<h2>What a gigawatt-hour looks like</h2>
<p>A typical UK home uses about 2,700 kWh of electricity a year, or roughly 7.4 kWh a day. So 1,000,000 kWh would cover around 135,000 homes for the whole day. Or boil about 37 million cups of tea. Or drive an electric car around 6 million km, nearly 150 times round the Earth.</p>
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  <img src="/media/magefan_blog/tesup-hammersmith-135000-homes-1600x1080.jpg" alt="135 glowing house icons on a night-blue background, each standing for 1,000 UK homes powered for a day"/>
  <figcaption>Every light is 1,000 homes. One windy day, 135,000 homes powered.</figcaption>
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  <img src="/media/magefan_blog/tesup-hammersmith-turbine-vs-home-1600x600.jpg" alt="Bar chart: one TESUP turbine makes 10 kWh on a windy day, a typical UK home uses 7.4 kWh a day"/>
  <figcaption>One turbine on a windy day can cover a typical UK home, with about a third to spare.</figcaption>
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<h2>Is 10 kWh a day realistic?</h2>
<p>Ten kWh in a day means an average of about 420 W, around the clock. On a gusty day that is within reach of an Atlas or a Magnum, but the wind is never the same everywhere, and real output depends on the site, the height, the turbine and the blade set. So treat this as a what-if, not a meter reading. On calmer days the numbers are smaller, which is exactly why Atlas has a low-wind blade set that starts turning at just 2 m/s.</p>
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  <img src="/media/magefan_blog/tesup-hammersmith-windier-day-1600x880.jpg" alt="Bar chart: UK homes powered for a day by 100,000 turbines at 2, 5, 10, 15 and 20 kWh each: 27,000, 68,000, 135,000, 203,000 and 270,000 homes"/>
  <figcaption>Calm day or gusty day: the same turbines, a very different number of homes.</figcaption>
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  <img src="/media/magefan_blog/tesup-hammersmith-atlas-symbol-960x1200.jpg" alt="Atlas symbol: a vertical-axis TESUP wind turbine drawn in white with yellow wind lines on night blue"/>
  <figcaption>Atlas: vertical axis, catches wind from any direction.</figcaption>
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  <img src="/media/magefan_blog/tesup-hammersmith-magnum-symbol-v2-960x1200.jpg" alt="Magnum symbol: a three-blade TESUP wind turbine with tail fin drawn in white with yellow wind lines on night blue"/>
  <figcaption>Magnum: horizontal axis, for open and steady wind.</figcaption>
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<h2>Hammersmith Bridge</h2>
<p>The green suspension bridge in these photos opened in 1887. It was designed by Sir Joseph Bazalgette, the engineer behind London's Victorian sewers, and it replaced the first Hammersmith Bridge of 1827, the first suspension bridge across the Thames. Every spring the Boat Race between Oxford and Cambridge passes underneath it.</p>
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  <img src="/media/magefan_blog/tesup-hammersmith-bridge-1600x1100.jpg" alt="Hammersmith Bridge with its name on the railing under a cloudy sky, a gull flying above"/>
  <figcaption>Hammersmith Bridge, opened in 1887.</figcaption>
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<h2>The planes tell you the wind</h2>
<p>Planes land into the wind. When the wind blows from the west, as it does in London for much of the year, aircraft heading for Heathrow come in over the city from the east, right across the river at Hammersmith. So when you see them lined up overhead, there is a westerly breeze, and somewhere a turbine is turning.</p>
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  <img src="/media/magefan_blog/tesup-hammersmith-tower-and-plane-900x1200.jpg" alt="One of the ornate towers of Hammersmith Bridge with a plane passing overhead"/>
  <figcaption>One of the bridge towers, with a plane on its approach to Heathrow.</figcaption>
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<h2>Your share of the wind</h2>
<p>If you have a roof, a garden or a field that catches the breeze, you could be part of the next windy-day sum. Pick the turbine that suits your wind and let the gusts do the work.</p>
<p>Sources: Ofgem, typical domestic consumption values; Heathrow Airport, runway operations; Wikipedia, Hammersmith Bridge. The windy-day sum is an illustration, not measured output. Photographs: TESUP, Hammersmith, October 2026.</p>
<div><h2>Find your turbine</h2><p>Atlas catches wind from any direction, Magnum makes the most of open, steady wind. Both are household wind turbines, assembled and tested in our own workshops.</p><a href="https://tesup.com/za/tesup-vertical-wind-turbines-for-homes.html">Discover Atlas</a><a href="https://tesup.com/za/tesup-horizontal-wind-turbines-for-homes.html">Discover Magnum</a></div>]]></description>
              <pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2026 18:55:24 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>An Atlas goes to university: TESUP wind for TU Dublin</title>
      <link>https://tesup.com/za/blogs/post/an-atlas-goes-to-university-tu-dublin-za</link>
      <guid>https://tesup.com/za/blogs/post/an-atlas-goes-to-university-tu-dublin-za</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[<p>Some orders make the whole team smile. This week one came from Technological University Dublin, Ireland's first technological university: an Atlas vertical wind turbine, the Atlas body together with a set of Atlas blades, on its way to Dublin.</p>
<p>We are proud every time an Atlas goes to a home, a farm or a workshop. When it goes to a university, it feels a little different. Universities are where engineers learn to measure, test and question things, and where the next generation of the energy transition is trained. So let us take a short walk through Dublin, a city built by engineers, on a bay that never runs short of wind.</p>
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  <img src="/media/magefan_blog/tesup-tudublin-ireland-map-1600x1100.png" alt="Map of Ireland with Dublin marked on the east coast, and a close-up of Dublin showing the TU Dublin campuses at Grangegorman, Tallaght and Blanchardstown"/>
  <figcaption>TU Dublin has three main campuses across the city: Grangegorman, its flagship campus just north of the Liffey, Tallaght in the south-west and Blanchardstown in the west.</figcaption>
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<h2>A university of engineers</h2>
<p>TU Dublin was created on 1 January 2019, when the Dublin Institute of Technology and the Institutes of Technology in Blanchardstown and Tallaght joined together to become Ireland's first technological university. Its roots go much further back, to the City of Dublin Technical Schools founded in 1887. Today around 28,500 students study there, from engineering and computing to business, media and culinary arts.</p>
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  <img src="/media/magefan_blog/tesup-tudublin-hapenny-bridge-1818-1600.jpg" alt="Painting of the Ha&#x27;penny Bridge over the River Liffey in Dublin by Samuel Frederick Brocas, 1818, with carriages on the quay"/>
  <figcaption>The Ha'penny Bridge over the Liffey, painted by Samuel Frederick Brocas in 1818, two years after the cast-iron bridge opened. Dublin has always been a city of engineers. (Public domain)</figcaption>
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  <img src="/media/magefan_blog/tesup-tudublin-docklands-1600x1100.jpg" alt="Modern office buildings beside restored stone warehouses at Boland&#x27;s Quay in the Dublin Docklands"/>
  <figcaption>Old stone and new glass at Boland's Quay in the Dublin Docklands, often called Silicon Docks for the technology companies based there. (Photo: DylanGLC2017, CC0)</figcaption>
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<h2>A bay full of wind</h2>
<p>Dublin sits on a wide bay that opens straight onto the Irish Sea, between the cliffs of Howth Head to the north and Dalkey to the south. Above the south wall of the port stand the twin Poolbeg chimneys, about 207 metres tall, the highest structures in Dublin and a reminder of the power station that once fed the city. On a breezy day you can feel the wind come in off the water, and Ireland as a whole sits right in the path of the Atlantic westerlies.</p>
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  <img src="/media/magefan_blog/tesup-tudublin-dublin-bay-chart-1875-1600.jpg" alt="Admiralty sea chart of Dublin Bay published in 1875 with depth soundings, Howth Head and the port of Dublin"/>
  <figcaption>Dublin Bay on the Admiralty chart of 1875: Howth Head to the north, the port and the Liffey in the west and the long south wall reaching out into the bay. (Public domain)</figcaption>
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  <img src="/media/magefan_blog/tesup-tudublin-howth-head-1600x1000.jpg" alt="The cliff path on Howth Head above the Irish Sea under a bright, cloudy sky"/>
  <figcaption>The cliff path on Howth Head, the northern arm of Dublin Bay. (Photo: Chemistry&amp;art, CC0)</figcaption>
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<h2>A country that runs more and more on wind</h2>
<p>Wind already supplies about a third of the electricity on the island of Ireland. In 2024 it covered 32 percent, and in December, when the Atlantic storms roll in, wind alone met 41 percent of demand. Ireland's Climate Action Plan aims for 80 percent renewable electricity by 2030, with 9 gigawatts of onshore wind and at least 5 gigawatts offshore. Big wind farms carry most of that load, but small turbines like Atlas show the same physics at a scale you can touch.</p>
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  <img src="/media/magefan_blog/tesup-tudublin-ireland-wind-numbers-1600x900.jpg" alt="Infographic: 32 percent of the island&#x27;s electricity from wind in 2024, 41 percent in December 2024, an 80 percent renewable target for 2030, 9 GW onshore and 5 GW offshore wind targets, TU Dublin founded in 2019 with roots in 1887"/>
  <figcaption>Ireland, wind and TU Dublin in numbers. Sources: Wind Energy Ireland, EirGrid, Climate Action Plan 2025, TU Dublin.</figcaption>
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<h2>Why Atlas</h2>
<p>Atlas is our vertical-axis wind turbine. Because it turns around a vertical shaft, it catches wind from any direction without having to point into it, which suits cities, rooftops and gusty sites. Every Atlas can be fitted with one of three swappable aluminium blade sets: Low-Wind for 2 to 20 m/s, Moderate-Wind for 4 to 25 m/s and High-Wind for 5 to 35 m/s. The blades are 65 percent lighter than steel, so they react the moment the wind picks up. It is compact and easy to watch at work, which makes it a fine turbine for anyone who wants to understand wind power, not just use it.</p>
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  <img src="/media/magefan_blog/tesup-tudublin-atlas-on-a-roof-900x1200.jpg" alt="A TESUP Atlas vertical wind turbine with grey aluminium blades spinning on a corrugated metal roof under a blue sky"/>
  <figcaption>An Atlas at work on a metal roof. It catches wind from every direction without turning to face it.</figcaption>
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  <img src="/media/magefan_blog/tesup-tudublin-atlas-blade-sets-chart-1600x800.jpg" alt="Chart of the three Atlas blade sets and their wind ranges: Low-Wind 2 to 20 m/s, Moderate-Wind 4 to 25 m/s and High-Wind 5 to 35 m/s"/>
  <figcaption>One Atlas, three blade sets, each tuned to a different wind.</figcaption>
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  <img src="/media/magefan_blog/tesup-tudublin-atlas-blade-disc-1600x1200.jpg" alt="Close-up of the TESUP Atlas blade mounting disc with the slots for the low, moderate and high wind blade positions"/>
  <figcaption>The mounting disc carries one position for each blade set.</figcaption>
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  <img src="/media/magefan_blog/tesup-tudublin-atlas-blade-sets-1600x1200.jpg" alt="TESUP Atlas aluminium blade sets stacked on pallets in the warehouse ready for shipping"/>
  <figcaption>Atlas blade sets in our warehouse, ready to travel.</figcaption>
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<h2>From the bay to the campus</h2>
<p>A small turbine is one of the best ways to make wind energy tangible: you can watch it start in a light breeze, measure its speed, its voltage and its output, and compare the numbers with the forecast. Whatever its new home on campus turns out to be, we are delighted that an Atlas is joining a university with more than a century of technical education behind it. Go raibh maith agat, TU Dublin.</p>
<p>Sources: Technological University Dublin; Higher Education Authority, TU Dublin profile; Wind Energy Ireland, annual report 2024; EirGrid, system data December 2024; Government of Ireland, Climate Action Plan 2025 (IEA summary); Wikipedia, Poolbeg Generating Station and Ha'penny Bridge. Images via Wikimedia Commons, public domain or CC0 as credited; Atlas photographs: TESUP.</p>
<div><h2>Wind from every direction</h2><p>Atlas is our vertical wind turbine for homes, rooftops, farms and campuses, with three swappable aluminium blade sets so you can match it to your wind.</p><a href="https://tesup.com/za/tesup-vertical-wind-turbines-for-homes.html">Discover Atlas</a></div>]]></description>
              <pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2026 19:08:33 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Pressure moved outside: a safer workshop at one of our manufacturing sites</title>
      <link>https://tesup.com/za/blogs/post/pressure-moved-outside-a-safer-workshop-za</link>
      <guid>https://tesup.com/za/blogs/post/pressure-moved-outside-a-safer-workshop-za</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[<p>Behind every turbine we ship is a workshop full of people, tools and machines. This month we made one of those workshops safer: the high-pressure air compressor that feeds the production line has moved out of the hall and into its own shelter outside.</p>
<p>Compressed air powers much of the daily work in a turbine workshop, from pneumatic tools to blow-off guns. Until now the compressor and its air receiver stood inside the production hall, a few steps from the workbenches. They now sit along the outside wall under a new roof, behind timber rails, and the air reaches the hall through a fixed line in the wall.</p>
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  <img src="/media/magefan_blog/tesup-compressor-full-length-v2-1600x597.jpg" alt="Full length of the new compressor shelter: timber posts and rails, corrugated roof and a concrete kerb along the dark grey wall of the production hall"/>
  <figcaption>The new shelter runs along the outside wall of the production hall: timber posts and rails, a corrugated roof and a concrete kerb.</figcaption>
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<h2>Why the compressor had to go</h2>
<p>A compressor is one of the most useful machines in any workshop, and one of the ones that deserve the most respect. Its air receiver is a pressure vessel that stores a great deal of energy, and the UK Health and Safety Executive lists over-pressure, explosion and overheating among the main hazards of compressed-air systems. A compressor is also loud, and the Carbon Trust estimates that more than 90 percent of the electricity it uses ends up as heat. Inside a production hall all of that sits right next to the people building turbines. Outside, it does not.</p>
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  <img src="/media/magefan_blog/tesup-compressor-layout-diagram-v2-1600x740.jpg" alt="Schematic of the new layout: production hall on the left, compressor and air receiver outside under a lean-to roof, with an air line through the wall, timber rails and a concrete kerb"/>
  <figcaption>The new layout: the production hall stays quiet and cool, the compressor and air receiver work outside under their own roof, and compressed air comes in through one line in the wall.</figcaption>
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<h2>How we built it</h2>
<p>The shelter is built from sawn timber posts, beams and rails, with corrugated roof sheets that slope away from the building wall so rainwater runs off away from the machines. It stands on the existing concrete kerb that runs along the building, which gives the equipment a solid, level base and a clear edge to the yard. The front and the far end are open above the rails, so air can move freely around the compressor, and two rows of rails keep people and forklifts at a safe distance while still allowing easy access for servicing.</p>
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  <img src="/media/magefan_blog/tesup-compressor-shelter-side-1600x999.jpg" alt="Side view of the shelter with the grey air receiver tank, piping and filters visible behind two rows of timber rails"/>
  <figcaption>Behind the rails: the air receiver, the piping and the filters, now outside the hall.</figcaption>
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  <img src="/media/magefan_blog/tesup-compressor-equipment-detail-1400x700.jpg" alt="Close-up of the air receiver tank with its drain valve, gauge and air piping behind the timber rails"/>
  <figcaption>The air receiver, with its gauge and drain valve, behind the rails.</figcaption>
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  <img src="/media/magefan_blog/tesup-compressor-angle-full-1200x1600.jpg" alt="New timber-framed shelter with a corrugated roof along the outside wall of a TESUP production hall, housing the air compressor"/>
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  <img src="/media/magefan_blog/tesup-compressor-end-full-900x1500.jpg" alt="The corrugated roof of the compressor shelter seen from the side, sloping away from the building wall"/>
  <figcaption>The roof slopes away from the wall, so rain and summer sun stay off the machines.</figcaption>
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<h2>Six safety gains</h2>
<p>The move was simple, but it changes a lot inside the hall. The pressure vessel is no longer next to the workbenches. The hall is quieter, so the team can talk and hear warnings clearly. The compressor's heat goes into the open air instead of the workshop. The compressor draws cooler, cleaner outdoor air instead of warm, dusty air from the hall. The roof and rails protect the machines and keep people back. And the floor space it used to take up now goes back to production.</p>
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  <img src="/media/magefan_blog/tesup-compressor-six-safety-gains-v2-1600x900.jpg" alt="Infographic of six safety gains: stored pressure away from people, a quieter hall, heat stays out, cool clean intake air, roof and rails, and floor space and access"/>
  <figcaption>Six safety gains from one small building project.</figcaption>
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  <img src="/media/magefan_blog/tesup-compressor-frontal-full-1096x1600.jpg" alt="The production hall seen from the yard, with the new compressor shelter along the bottom of the wall"/>
  <figcaption>The production hall from the yard. The shelter is a small addition to a big building, but it changes how the hall feels to work in.</figcaption>
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<h2>Safety is part of the product</h2>
<p>Moving the compressor outside is a small building project with a big effect on everyday work in the hall. We believe a calm, safe workshop builds better turbines, and every Atlas and Magnum we ship is assembled and tested in workshops like this one.</p>
<p>Sources: Health and Safety Executive, HSG39 Compressed air safety; Carbon Trust, compressed air and heat recovery guidance. Photographs: TESUP.</p>
<div><h2>Built with care, from the workshop up</h2><p>Every Atlas vertical and Magnum horizontal wind turbine is assembled and tested in our own workshops. See the turbines that come out of them.</p><a href="https://tesup.com/za/tesup-vertical-wind-turbines-for-homes.html">Discover Atlas</a> <a href="https://tesup.com/za/tesup-horizontal-wind-turbines-for-homes.html">Discover Magnum</a></div>]]></description>
              <pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2026 16:11:44 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Black, red and gold: two Magnum wind turbines for Karlsruhe, Germany</title>
      <link>https://tesup.com/za/blogs/post/black-red-and-gold-two-magnum-wind-turbines-for-karlsruhe-za</link>
      <guid>https://tesup.com/za/blogs/post/black-red-and-gold-two-magnum-wind-turbines-for-karlsruhe-za</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[<p>Our newest order has left the warehouse with DHL and is heading for Karlsruhe, a city of around 310,000 people in Baden-Württemberg, south-western Germany. In the boxes: two Magnum horizontal wind turbines, two blade sets, two charge controllers and the battery version with the 0.90 mm winding. Twice the Magnum, for a country where wind is already the biggest source of electricity.</p>
<p>Germany is the land of the Energiewende, the energy transition, and it is also a land of flags, maps and mountains. So before the two turbines reach their new home, let us take the scenic route: from the black, red and gold of the national flag to the black and gold of Baden-Württemberg, from the Rhine plain up to the Black Forest and the Alps.</p>
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  <img src="/media/magefan_blog/tesup-karlsruhe-flags-1600x820.jpg" alt="Three waving flags: Germany in black, red and gold; Baden-Württemberg in black and gold; Karlsruhe in red and yellow"/>
  <figcaption>Three flags over one order: the black, red and gold of Germany, the black and gold of Baden-Württemberg and the red and yellow of Karlsruhe.</figcaption>
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  <img src="/media/magefan_blog/tesup-karlsruhe-germany-map-1400.png" alt="Map of Germany with its sixteen states, Baden-Württemberg highlighted in gold, Karlsruhe marked with a pin and the Feldberg and Zugspitze peaks shown"/>
  <figcaption>Germany's sixteen states, with Baden-Württemberg in gold. Karlsruhe lies on the Rhine in the far south-west; the Feldberg (1,493 m) is the state's highest peak and the Zugspitze (2,962 m) is Germany's.</figcaption>
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<h2>The fan city</h2>
<p>Karlsruhe is one of the few European cities that was drawn before it was built. In 1715 Margrave Karl Wilhelm of Baden-Durlach laid the foundation stone of a new palace in the Hardtwald forest and had 32 streets laid out from its tower like the ribs of a fan: nine of them run south into the town, the rest north into the woods. The plan is so clear that the city is still known as the Fächerstadt, the fan city, and the palace tower still sits at the centre of every map.</p>
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  <img src="/media/magefan_blog/tesup-karlsruhe-fan-city-1600x900.jpg" alt="Diagram of Karlsruhe&#x27;s fan-shaped street plan with 32 streets radiating from the palace"/>
  <figcaption>The fan: 32 streets from a single palace. Nine go into the town, the rest into the forest.</figcaption>
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  <img src="/media/magefan_blog/tesup-karlsruhe-kuntz-view-1804-1600.jpg" alt="Painting of Karlsruhe seen from the south by Carl Kuntz, about 1804, with the palace tower on the horizon"/>
  <figcaption>Karlsruhe seen from the south, painted by Carl Kuntz around 1804. The palace tower, the hub of the fan, is already the landmark on the horizon. (Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, public domain)</figcaption>
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<h2>Radio waves, the first bicycle and the first car</h2>
<p>For a city of its size Karlsruhe has an extraordinary record of invention. In November 1886 Heinrich Hertz, a young professor at the Technische Hochschule, produced and detected electromagnetic waves for the first time, proving that radio waves exist and travel at the speed of light; every wireless signal since has been measured in hertz. Karl Drais, born in Karlsruhe in 1785, built the Laufmaschine, the running machine of 1817 that became the bicycle. Carl Benz, born in the Karlsruhe district of Mühlburg in 1844, built the first petrol car. Today the city is home to the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, the Federal Constitutional Court and the Federal Court of Justice, and with around 2,000 hours of sunshine a year it is one of Germany's sunniest cities too.</p>
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  <img src="/media/magefan_blog/tesup-karlsruhe-heinrich-hertz-1000.jpg" alt="Portrait photograph of the physicist Heinrich Hertz, around 1890"/>
  <figcaption>Heinrich Hertz, around 1890. His Karlsruhe experiments of 1886 to 1888 proved the existence of radio waves. (Photograph by Robert Krewaldt, public domain)</figcaption>
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<h2>Between the Rhine and the Black Forest</h2>
<p>Baden-Württemberg is Germany's third-largest state, home to about 11.2 million people and to engineering towns such as Stuttgart, Mannheim and Heidelberg. Karlsruhe sits on its western edge, on the flat and warm Upper Rhine Plain, a little over 100 metres above sea level. Look east from the city and the land rises quickly: first the dark wooded ridges of the Black Forest, then its highest point, the Feldberg at 1,493 metres, the highest mountain in Germany outside the Alps. Beyond the forest lie the limestone plateau of the Swabian Jura and, on the Swiss and Austrian border, Lake Constance.</p>
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  <img src="/media/magefan_blog/tesup-karlsruhe-baden-wurttemberg-map-1600x1000.png" alt="Map of Baden-Württemberg showing Karlsruhe on the Rhine, Stuttgart, Freiburg, the Black Forest, the Feldberg and Lake Constance"/>
  <figcaption>Baden-Württemberg: Karlsruhe on the Rhine, the Black Forest running north to south along the French border, the Feldberg at 1,493 m and Lake Constance in the south.</figcaption>
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  <img src="/media/magefan_blog/tesup-karlsruhe-feldberg-winter-1600x1000.jpg" alt="The snow-covered summit of the Feldberg in the Black Forest with its tower, seen from the east in winter"/>
  <figcaption>The Feldberg in winter, seen from the east. At 1,493 m it is the roof of Baden-Württemberg. (Photo: UnFUG-Fabi, CC0)</figcaption>
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  <img src="/media/magefan_blog/tesup-karlsruhe-schluchsee-black-forest-1600x900.jpg" alt="The Schluchsee reservoir surrounded by Black Forest spruce woods"/>
  <figcaption>The Schluchsee, the largest lake in the Black Forest, some 930 metres up. (Photo: Elfriede Birkenmayer, CC0)</figcaption>
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  <img src="/media/magefan_blog/tesup-karlsruhe-thoma-black-forest-1867-1600.jpg" alt="Hans Thoma&#x27;s 1867 painting Black Forest Landscape with hills, a stream and farm children"/>
  <figcaption>Black Forest Landscape, painted by Hans Thoma in 1867. Thoma grew up in the Black Forest and ended his career as director of the Kunsthalle in Karlsruhe. (Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, public domain)</figcaption>
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<h2>A country that runs on wind</h2>
<p>No large country has gone further with wind power than Germany. By the end of 2024 it had about 63.5 gigawatts of wind turbines on land and 9.2 gigawatts in the North Sea and the Baltic. Wind produced around 141 terawatt-hours of electricity in 2024, more than any other source, and renewables together covered roughly 55 percent of the country's electricity consumption. The targets for 2030 are 115 gigawatts on land and 30 gigawatts at sea. Most of that is big turbines on the windy northern plains, but the same wind blows over the Rhine valley, and a growing number of German households want a share of it in their own garden.</p>
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  <img src="/media/magefan_blog/tesup-karlsruhe-germany-wind-in-numbers-1600x860.jpg" alt="Germany and wind power in numbers: 63.5 GW on land, 9.2 GW at sea, 141 TWh in 2024, about 55 percent renewables, targets of 115 GW and 30 GW by 2030"/>
  <figcaption>Germany and wind power, 2024: 63.5 GW on land, 9.2 GW at sea, 141 TWh of wind electricity, about 55 percent of consumption from renewables, and 2030 targets of 115 GW and 30 GW. Sources: Bundesnetzagentur, Umweltbundesamt, Fraunhofer ISE.</figcaption>
</figure>
<h2>Two Magnums for Karlsruhe</h2>
<p>The order from Karlsruhe is a complete pair: two Magnum horizontal wind turbines, each with a 15 kW motor and a peak output of 12 kW, two Magnum blade sets and two Magnum charge controllers. Both turbines are the battery version with the 0.90 mm winding, which can charge 12, 24 or 48 volt battery banks, so the owner can run them side by side on one bank or feed two separate systems.</p>
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  <img src="/media/magefan_blog/tesup-karlsruhe-order-card-1600x760.jpg" alt="Summary card of the Karlsruhe order: two Magnum turbines with 15 kW motor and 12 kW peak, two blade sets and two charge controllers"/>
  <figcaption>The Karlsruhe order at a glance: two of everything.</figcaption>
</figure>
<p>Magnum is the largest horizontal turbine we make. Its three aerodynamic blades are balanced for high-speed running, the body is built for year-round outdoor duty, and the charge controller turns the turbine's wild alternating current into clean direct current for the batteries. Two of them on the edge of the Rhine valley, where the westerlies arrive after crossing France, will have plenty to do.</p>
<figure>
  <img src="/media/magefan_blog/tesup-karlsruhe-magnum-warehouse-1200x1400.jpg" alt="A TESUP Magnum horizontal wind turbine with black blades assembled in the warehouse"/>
  <figcaption>A Magnum in the warehouse before packing: 15 kW motor, 12 kW peak, three blades and a tail fin that keeps it facing the wind.</figcaption>
</figure>
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  <img src="/media/magefan_blog/tesup-karlsruhe-magnum-blades-1600x900.jpg" alt="Rendering of the TESUP Magnum turbine body, tail fin and three black blades laid out as a kit"/>
  <figcaption>The Magnum kit: body, tail, hub and three blades. Each Karlsruhe turbine comes with its own blade set and charge controller.</figcaption>
</figure>
<h2>Why small wind suits Germany</h2>
<p>Germany has millions of rooftop solar systems, but solar is quiet in the winter months when heating demand is highest. Wind is the opposite: it blows hardest between November and March, and it works at night. A Magnum next to a solar array and a battery bank fills exactly the gap that the panels leave, which is why so many of our German customers combine the two. From the fan city to the Baltic coast, that is the mix the Energiewende is built on, one garden at a time.</p>
<p>Sources: Wikipedia, Karlsruhe and Karlsruhe Palace; Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Heinrich Hertz press releases; IEEE Milestones, First generation and experimental proof of electromagnetic waves 1886 to 1888; City of Mannheim, Karl Drais; Wikipedia, Carl Benz; Wikipedia, Feldberg (Black Forest); Statistisches Landesamt Baden-Württemberg, population 2024; Bundesnetzagentur, Growth in renewable energy in 2024; Umweltbundesamt and Fraunhofer ISE, electricity generation 2024; Clean Energy Wire, German wind targets. Photographs and paintings via Wikimedia Commons, public domain or CC0 as credited.</p>
<div><h2>Bring the wind home</h2><p>Magnum is our most powerful horizontal wind turbine: 15 kW motor, 12 kW peak, for homes, farms and workshops with a good open site. Pair it with a Magnum charge controller for a complete battery-charging system.</p><a href="https://tesup.com/za/tesup-horizontal-wind-turbines-for-homes.html">Discover Magnum</a> <a href="https://tesup.com/za/tesup-wind-turbine-charge-controller.html">Magnum charge controller</a></div>]]></description>
              <pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2026 11:13:13 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Daughter of the Winds: an Atlas blade set for volcanic Pantelleria</title>
      <link>https://tesup.com/za/blogs/post/daughter-of-the-winds-atlas-blades-for-pantelleria-za</link>
      <guid>https://tesup.com/za/blogs/post/daughter-of-the-winds-atlas-blades-for-pantelleria-za</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[<p>Our newest order is heading for a small volcanic island in the middle of the Strait of Sicily, 106 km from Sicily and 68 km from Tunisia. Meet Pantelleria, the island the Arabs named the Daughter of the Winds.</p>
<p>Pantelleria is only 83 square kilometres, yet it is the largest volcanic satellite island of Sicily. About 7,150 people live here among black lava rocks, domed stone houses called dammusi, terraces of Zibibbo vines and a turquoise crater lake, the Specchio di Venere. On a clear day you can see the coast of Tunisia. The island is reached by air or by ferry from Sicily, and now also by a TESUP parcel.</p>
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  <img src="/media/magefan_blog/tesup-pantelleria-strait-of-sicily-map-1600x900.jpg" alt="Map of the Strait of Sicily showing Pantelleria between Sicily and Tunisia, 106 km from Marsala and 68 km from the Tunisian coast"/>
  <figcaption>Pantelleria sits alone in the Strait of Sicily: 106 km south-west of Sicily and 68 km east of Tunisia.</figcaption>
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<h2>Bint al-Riyāḥ, the Daughter of the Winds</h2>
<p>The Arabs, who ruled the island from the year 700, called it Bint al-Riyāḥ, Daughter of the Winds, after the strong gales that sweep up from the North African coast. The name fits. Everything people built here was built against the wind. The dammusi have thick dry-stone walls of black lava and low domed roofs that catch rainwater. In the giardino pantesco, a round stone wall shelters a single citrus tree from wind and salt. And the island's Zibibbo vines are grown as low bushes in hollows dug into the soil, out of the wind's reach. In 2014 UNESCO added this vite ad alberello technique to its list of Intangible Cultural Heritage, the first agricultural practice ever to receive that honour.</p>
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  <img src="/media/magefan_blog/tesup-pantelleria-dammuso-1600x1000.jpg" alt="A traditional dammuso stone house built of black lava rock on Pantelleria"/>
  <figcaption>A dammuso: thick walls of black lava, built to shrug off the wind.</figcaption>
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  <img src="/media/magefan_blog/tesup-pantelleria-1882-engraving-1400.jpg" alt="Engravings of Pantelleria from the Italian magazine L&#x27;Illustrazione Italiana, 1882"/>
  <figcaption>Pantelleria as it looked in 1882: the harbour, the castle, the lighthouse and prehistoric stone dwellings (L'Illustrazione Italiana).</figcaption>
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<h2>Born of fire</h2>
<p>Pantelleria is the tip of a volcano rising from the sea floor. Two huge eruptions, about 114,000 and 45,000 years ago, left the calderas that shape the island today; ash from the second one has been found as far away as the Greek island of Lesbos. Montagna Grande, at 836 metres, is the summit. The last eruption, in 1891, happened under water off the north-west coast, but the volcano is far from asleep: hot springs bubble along the shore, steam rises from fumaroles, a natural sauna fills a small cave, and the Specchio di Venere lake is fed by rain and hot springs. Since 2016 a national park protects 80% of the island.</p>
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  <img src="/media/magefan_blog/tesup-pantelleria-lava-coast-lighthouse-1600x900.jpg" alt="Black lava coastline of Pantelleria with the Punta Spadillo lighthouse and the deep blue sea"/>
  <figcaption>Black lava meets the blue of the strait on Pantelleria's northern coast.</figcaption>
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  <img src="/media/magefan_blog/tesup-pantelleria-in-numbers-1600x760.jpg" alt="Pantelleria in numbers: 83 square kilometres, 836 metres high, 7,150 inhabitants, last eruption 1891, 106 km from Sicily and 68 km from Tunisia, 80% national park"/>
  <figcaption>Pantelleria in numbers: 83 km² of island, 836 m summit, 7,150 inhabitants, last eruption in 1891, 106 km to Sicily and 68 km to Tunisia, 80% national park.</figcaption>
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<h2>An Atlas blade set for the Daughter of the Winds</h2>
<p>The parcel on its way across the strait with Poste Italiane contains an Atlas Low-Wind blade set. Every Atlas can be fitted with one of three swappable blade sets: Low-Wind for 2 to 20 m/s, Moderate-Wind for 4 to 25 m/s and High-Wind for 5 to 35 m/s. On an island named after the wind you might expect the high-wind set, but the low-wind blades are a clever choice for many sites. They start turning at just 2 m/s, so the turbine produces in the gentle sea breezes too, not only in the gales. And because the blades are aluminium, 65% lighter than steel, they respond the moment the wind picks up.</p>
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  <img src="/media/magefan_blog/tesup-pantelleria-atlas-low-wind-blades-1600x1200.jpg" alt="TESUP Atlas blade mounting disc with the three blade-angle positions for low, moderate and high wind"/>
  <figcaption>One Atlas, three blade sets: the mounting disc carries a position for low, moderate and high wind.</figcaption>
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<figure>
  <img src="/media/magefan_blog/tesup-pantelleria-atlas-blade-sets-1600x1000.jpg" alt="TESUP Atlas aluminium blade sets ready for shipping in the warehouse"/>
  <figcaption>Atlas blade sets, ready to travel.</figcaption>
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<h2>Why wind matters on a small island</h2>
<p>Like most of Sicily's smaller islands, Pantelleria is not connected to the mainland grid and has to generate its own electricity. That makes every kilowatt-hour produced on the island valuable, and it makes the island's own resources, the sun and the wind that gave it its name, the obvious place to look. A turbine on a dammuso roof is a small step in that direction, and we are glad an Atlas is taking it. To our customer on Pantelleria: grazie, and enjoy the wind.</p>
<p>Sources: Wikipedia, Pantelleria; UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage, vite ad alberello (2014). Satellite image: contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2023). Photographs: Michael Leithold (public domain). Engravings: L'Illustrazione Italiana, 1882.</p>
<div><h2>Tune your Atlas to your wind</h2><p>Low, moderate or high wind: Atlas comes with swappable aluminium blade sets so it fits your roof, wherever it is.</p><a href="https://tesup.com/za/tesup-vertical-wind-turbines-for-homes.html">Discover Atlas</a></div>]]></description>
              <pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 16:33:06 +0000</pubDate>
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      <link>https://tesup.com/za/blogs/post/form-follows-power-atlas-generator-as-art-za</link>
      <guid>https://tesup.com/za/blogs/post/form-follows-power-atlas-generator-as-art-za</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[<p>Some machines are made to be hidden away. This one we would rather put on a plinth.</p>
<p>This is the generator at the heart of the TESUP Atlas wind turbine. We usually show it on the workbench or in a box. This time we simply stopped and looked at it, the way you look at a sculpture.</p>
<h2>One line</h2>
<p>The body is a single, calm curve of aluminium: up, over and down, with soft rounded corners. Nothing is added for show. The black panel sits inside the curve like a picture inside its frame.</p>
<figure>
  <img src="/media/magefan_blog/tesup-atlas-generator-art-back-900x1195-v3.jpg" alt="The plain back of the Atlas generator: a black panel with the TESUP logo inside a curved aluminium body, with the shaft rising from the top"/>
  <figcaption>I · The back: one curve, one panel, one logo.</figcaption>
</figure>
<h2>A panel you can read</h2>
<p>On the front, everything has its place. Inputs for wind and solar. An output to your inverter or battery. A display and a dial. A sensor socket, an antenna and the connection for the MyTESUP app. The charge controller is built in, so the panel is also where the energy is managed.</p>
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  <img src="/media/magefan_blog/tesup-atlas-generator-art-front-900x1195-v3.jpg" alt="The front panel of the Atlas generator with its connectors, display, dial, sensor socket, antenna, serial-number label and high-voltage sign"/>
  <figcaption>II · The front: everything in its place.</figcaption>
</figure>
<h2>Seen from above</h2>
<p>From above, the generator is almost a still life: a polished shaft rising from its bearing, a few screws, and a white label with a serial number and QR code. Every Atlas generator carries its own, so each one can be traced from our workshop to its new home.</p>
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  <img src="/media/magefan_blog/tesup-atlas-generator-art-top-900x1195-v3.jpg" alt="The Atlas generator seen from above: the shaft rising from its bearing and a white TESUP serial-number label with a QR code"/>
  <figcaption>III · From above: shaft, bearing and serial number.</figcaption>
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<h2>Why call it art?</h2>
<p>Because good engineering and good design end up in the same place: nothing extra, nothing missing. When it is turning in the wind on a roof or a pole, you will not see it this closely. So we wanted to show it to you once, up close.</p>
<div><h2>See the Atlas</h2><p>The TESUP Atlas: a vertical wind turbine for gusty, shifting wind, with its charge controller built in.</p><a href="https://tesup.com/za/tesup-vertical-wind-turbines-for-homes.html">Discover Atlas</a></div>]]></description>
              <pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2026 19:49:41 +0000</pubDate>
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      <link>https://tesup.com/za/blogs/post/next-stop-germany-za</link>
      <guid>https://tesup.com/za/blogs/post/next-stop-germany-za</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[<p>A full truck of TESUP Atlas and Magnum wind turbines has left our warehouse. Next stop: our customers in Germany.</p>
<p>Pallet by pallet, the stacker lifted every load onto the truck. Each pallet is built up box by box, stretch-wrapped tight and checked before it goes on board.</p>
<h2>Loaded and wrapped</h2>
<p>Big cube boxes with carry handles go at the bottom, long flat cartons on top, and every box carries its own TESUP label with a serial number. That is how a TESUP pallet travels: as one solid block, from our warehouse to your door.</p>
<figure>
  <img src="/media/magefan_blog/tesup-germany-loading-and-loaded-logo-1600x1000.jpg" alt="Left: a stacker pushes a tall, stretch-wrapped pallet of TESUP boxes into a truck. Right: TESUP pallets loaded and wrapped in the truck"/>
  <figcaption>Lifted on board, wrapped, strapped and ready to roll.</figcaption>
</figure>
<h2>Atlas generators, ready for the road</h2>
<p>Also on board: Atlas generators, each with its charge controller built in. Everything is on one panel: inputs for wind and solar, an output to your inverter or battery, a display and dial, a sensor socket and the connection for the MyTESUP app.</p>
<figure>
  <img src="/media/magefan_blog/tesup-germany-atlas-generators-logo-1600x900.jpg" alt="Two Atlas generators with their built-in charge controller panel: connectors, display, dial, sensor socket and a TESUP serial-number label"/>
  <figcaption>The Atlas generator with its built-in charge controller panel.</figcaption>
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<p>Every unit has its own serial number and QR code, so we can trace each one from our workshop to its new home.</p>
<figure>
  <img src="/media/magefan_blog/tesup-germany-atlas-generator-logo-900x1200.jpg" alt="An Atlas generator on the workbench, its panel showing the inverter and battery output and the wind and solar inputs"/>
</figure>
<h2>Thank you, Germany</h2>
<p>To everyone in Germany waiting for a TESUP turbine: your order is on its way. Thank you for choosing TESUP. We can't wait to see your Atlas or Magnum spinning.</p>
<div><h2>Find your turbine</h2><p>The Atlas for gusty, shifting wind. The Magnum for strong, open wind.</p><a href="https://tesup.com/za/tesup-vertical-wind-turbines-for-homes.html">Discover Atlas</a><a href="https://tesup.com/za/tesup-horizontal-wind-turbines-for-homes.html">Discover Magnum</a></div>]]></description>
              <pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2026 12:38:13 +0000</pubDate>
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      <link>https://tesup.com/za/blogs/post/090-mm-copper-60-turns-per-slot-za</link>
      <guid>https://tesup.com/za/blogs/post/090-mm-copper-60-turns-per-slot-za</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[<p>These are the newest generators on our winding bench: stators wound with thick 0.90 mm copper wire, 60 turns in every slot. They are made for the battery-charging option on the Atlas and the Magnum.</p>
<p>When you tick the battery option on the Atlas or Magnum product page, this is the generator your turbine gets. It is built for 12, 24 or 48 V battery banks, off-grid or as backup.</p>
<h2>Why thicker wire</h2>
<p>A battery bank works at a low voltage, so the generator has to deliver more current. Thicker wire carries more current, which is why the battery option uses 0.90 mm copper instead of our standard 0.55 mm winding.</p>
<h2>60 turns, slot by slot</h2>
<p>The stator is a stack of thin steel laminations with a ring of slots inside. Each slot is lined with white insulation, so the copper never touches the steel, and then filled with 60 turns of 0.90 mm enamelled copper wire.</p>
<figure>
  <img src="/media/magefan_blog/tesup-090-copper-detail-1600x900.jpg" alt="Close-up of a stator: steel laminations, white slot insulation and loops of 0.90 mm copper wire"/>
  <figcaption>Steel laminations, white slot insulation and 0.90 mm copper: 60 turns in every slot.</figcaption>
</figure>
<figure>
  <img src="/media/magefan_blog/tesup-090-copper-stator-900x1200.jpg" alt="A fully wound TESUP stator standing on the winding bench, with copper coils all the way around"/>
</figure>
<h2>Inverter or battery?</h2>
<p>Most homes send their wind power to a grid inverter. For that, the standard 0.55 mm winding is the right choice, and you do not need a charge controller or batteries.</p>
<p>If you charge batteries instead, choose the battery option and your turbine gets the 0.90 mm winding. The Atlas has its charge controller built in and connects straight to the battery. The Magnum connects through the separate TESUP charge controller.</p>
<figure>
  <img src="/media/magefan_blog/tesup-inverter-or-battery-winding-1600x900.jpg" alt="Diagram: the standard 0.55 mm winding feeds a grid inverter for home power; the battery option with a 0.90 mm winding feeds a charge controller and a 12, 24 or 48 V battery bank"/>
  <figcaption>Schematic only. The Magnum uses the separate TESUP charge controller; the Atlas has one built in.</figcaption>
</figure>
<figure>
  <img src="/media/magefan_blog/tesup-090-copper-winding-bench-900x1200.jpg" alt="A wound stator in front, with another stator on the winding bench behind it"/>
  <figcaption>One finished, the next one already on the bench.</figcaption>
</figure>
<div><h2>Choose the battery option</h2><p>The battery option is on the Atlas and Magnum product pages. The charge controller for the Magnum has its own page.</p><a href="https://tesup.com/za/tesup-vertical-wind-turbines-for-homes.html">Atlas</a><a href="https://tesup.com/za/tesup-horizontal-wind-turbines-for-homes.html">Magnum</a><a href="https://tesup.com/za/tesup-wind-turbine-charge-controller.html">Charge controller</a></div>]]></description>
              <pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2026 18:16:06 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Where the horses come first: Reiterhof Schenkenhorst</title>
      <link>https://tesup.com/za/blogs/post/where-the-horses-come-first-reiterhof-schenkenhorst-za</link>
      <guid>https://tesup.com/za/blogs/post/where-the-horses-come-first-reiterhof-schenkenhorst-za</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[<p>South of Berlin, in Brandenburg, Reiterhof Schenkenhorst works by one simple rule: the horses come first. We are proud that this farm runs a TESUP Magnum wind turbine.</p>
<p>“Artgerechte Tierhaltung steht bei uns im Vordergrund,” the farm says: keeping horses the way horses are meant to live comes first. To make that possible, there are 200 hectares of pastures and meadows where the horses can recover from competitions, training and everyday challenges, and simply grow up healthy.</p>
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  <img src="/media/magefan_blog/tesup-reiterhof-horse-portrait-900x1200.jpg" alt="A dark bay horse standing on a large tyre filled with sand on a paddock under a blue sky"/>
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<h2>Life in the herd</h2>
<p>Many horses here live in open stables (Offenställe) in small, settled herds: mares and geldings, young and old, from ponies to draught horses. There is a herd of Icelandic horses and a group of seniors, most of them over twenty.</p>
<p>Hay is fed from nets so the horses can nibble slowly through the day, in some stables around the clock. In summer the herds go out to the big pastures, some of them overnight.</p>
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  <img src="/media/magefan_blog/tesup-reiterhof-life-in-the-herd-1600x900.jpg" alt="Four photos: horses sharing a hay net, two horses rolling in the sand, horses resting in an open stable, and ponies eating from a hay net"/>
  <figcaption>Sharing hay, rolling in the sand, resting together: everyday life in the herds.</figcaption>
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<h2>Space to roam</h2>
<p>Around the farm there are meadows, woods and lakes. Riders can hack out on sandy tracks and paths around the farm without crossing a single road.</p>
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  <img src="/media/magefan_blog/tesup-reiterhof-space-to-roam-1600x900.jpg" alt="Four photos: a herd grazing in tall grass, a rainbow over the pasture, a misty sunrise over the fields, and horses on a sunny paddock"/>
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<h2>Built around the horse</h2>
<p>Three stable wings offer boxes and paddock boxes, including a stable for horses with allergies, where they are fed haylage only. For work and recovery there are five outdoor arenas, a 20 × 80 m indoor arena, a lunging hall, a round pen, a horse walker, a solarium, a salt-brine room and washing bays with horse showers.</p>
<p>Dressage riders, show jumpers, leisure riders and carriage drivers all feel at home here.</p>
<h2>Why a Magnum fits</h2>
<p>A farm like this uses power every day: for the lights in the stables and the indoor arena, for the horse walker and for the solarium. And open Brandenburg land, with wide pastures and few obstacles, is exactly the kind of strong, open wind the TESUP Magnum is built for.</p>
<p>Thank you, Reiterhof Schenkenhorst, for choosing TESUP and for letting us share these photos. We are glad to be part of a place where the horses come first.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.reiterhof-schenkenhorst.de/reiterhof" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Visit Reiterhof Schenkenhorst &rarr;</a></p>
<div><h2>Power for your land</h2><p>The TESUP Magnum: a horizontal wind turbine for strong, open wind.</p><a href="https://tesup.com/za/tesup-horizontal-wind-turbines-for-homes.html">Discover Magnum</a></div>]]></description>
              <pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2026 18:15:59 +0000</pubDate>
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