Windmill playhouse raises $10,000 at auction to help rehabilitate low-income and elderly housing
An elaborate playhouse featuring a Bison gearmotor powered windmill sold for $10,000 at auction, with one hundred percent of the proceeds used to provide free home repair services for the elderly and low-income homeowners in the San Francisco Bay Area. The "Molina of La Mancha" playhouse was designed by Topos Architects of Palo Alto, California, who selected a Bison Gear gearmotor to power the windmill on still days. The gearmotor Bison donated to the project is from the VWDIR23 series of right angle, variable speed drives.
"Although we sell gearmotors for special applications in the wind power industry and we also make permanent magnet dc motors that can be used as very small generators, I must say this is an application we did not anticipate," said John Morehead, who is Bison Gear's vice president strategic planning and marketing. "It's only one gearmotor, but the satisfaction everyone at Bison Gear received knowing the good work that will be done by Rebuilding Together Peninsula is as great as having sold thousands to an OEM."