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Select "startup_no_blade_deflection" under Run Name. Select Summary information in Data Group. Select Electrical power for Variables. The electrical power will be plotted against time. Click on OK to finish data selection.

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Click on Channel 2 and select "demo_steady_wind_11" under Run Name. Select summary information and electrical power, as shown in the previous step.

Channel 1 displays the electrical power produced by the demo turbine without blade deflection. Channel 2 displays the electrical power produced by the demo turbine with blade deflection. Click on View Graph, and you should get something like this:

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We can check if the blades in our setup deflect or not. Select Blade 1 Deflections in Data Group. Select Blade 1 x-deflection for Variables. Select Time for Independent Variables.

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From the graph, we see our setup does not yield any blade deflection.