Bonus Episode – Which Robot is Right?

As spring approaches and wind turbines are repaired, which robot is the best solution for your next job? Joel and Allen discuss the options. Visit Pardalote Consulting at https://www.pardaloteconsulting.com Wind Power Lab - https://windpowerlab.com Weather Guard Lightning Tech - www.weatherguardwind.com Intelstor - https://www.intelstor.com Sign up now for Uptime Tech News, our weekly email update on all things wind technology. This episode is sponsored by Weather Guard Lightning Tech. Learn more about Weather Guard's StrikeTape Wind Turbine LPS retrofit. Follow the show on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Linkedin and visit Weather Guard on the web. And subscribe to Rosemary Barnes' YouTube channel here. Have a question we can answer on the show? Email us!  152 Bonus Allen Hall: Welcome to this bonus episode of the Uptime Wind Energy Podcast. I'm your host, Allen Hall, president of Weather Guard Lightning Tech, and I'm here with Wind Power Lab's, Joel Saxum, and Joel, you and I were talking about all the different robot options on the blade repair side. Mm-hmm. and in the spring gets closer. There's a lot of research going into these companies, and I thought it, it's a good time to, to highlight them and discuss where their strengths are and maybe where their weaknesses are. Mm-hmm. . And if you're in a, if you're in the market for like a leading edge repair, what are some of the things you sh consider? From these robot  Joel Saxum: companies? Yeah, absolutely. As as it's February, right? So in most of the northern hemisphere or the further southern hemisphere right now is the time everybody's getting. getting geared up for the spring to let loose and repair season to start. You know, if you're one of those, those lucky companies or lucky asset owners that gets to work on their turbines year round, you don't have that pain. But I know all of my counterparts in the industry and and friends that I talk to are deep into the tender process. And even at this point in time, right, it's February 10th today, so the tenders. They're coming out, right. They're coming out with, with decisions because you're, you're starting to get, if you haven't got your tender in back in, you know, December or January, the, it's getting slim pickings for, for blade techs. So, yeah. Like we, like we talk about a lot on the show as the blade technician pool gets it, it's, it's hard to build it. It gets smaller and smaller as the the global fleet grows. So all of these companies that are starting to develop robots for, whether it's just for leading edge repair or something that has classically been a technician job like like the Valero guys doing the LPS measurements, and they're.