PowerCurved 0.1 has been released today.
DESCRIPTION
PowerCurved is a GTK interface written in python for editing power curves of wind turbines. It's released under the GNU GPL so your are free for using it, redistributing it, modify it and distribute modified versions.
Features:
- Simple, plain text format for file storage.
- Support for explicit rated power, cut-in and cut-off speeds.
- Computes annual energy power for given Weibull parameters.
- Plots power curves.
PREREQUISITES
You need recent versions of the following programs in order to use
PowerCurved:
- Python
- PyGTK
- Numpy
- Matplotlib
All of them are easy to install in most operating systems. Tested in Ubuntu 8.04 and Windows XP.
INSTALLATION
This is pure python, no need for installation (and no installation scripts available yet). Just open a terminal, go to the PowerCurved folder and type:
$ python powercurved.py
There isn't more detailed documentation yet, if you need more information please file a support request or send a message to goyodiaz_at_gmail_dot_com.
TODO
- i18n and i10n.
- Better file dialogs (filters...)
- Better docstrings.
- Cleaner code (and get rid of all those hardcoded strings!)
- Support for several air density values?
- Support for WAsP file format?
DOWNLOAD
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/powercurved/powercurved_0.1.tar.gz