The world would be such a miserable place without you Rob - sitting here in awe !!! way to go. What will we do without you? We need to start a foundation....
@@ThinkingandTinkering I know, I was joking, no disrespect meant. :-) Sometimes my sense of humour can be a bit obscure. I'd be mortified if anyone was actually offended. Peace.
You are a genius. Making this for free is beyond generous, and providing comprehensive coverage and explanations alongside the files ALSO FOR FREE is legendary. You are inspiring a generation of innovation with your work, thank you so much.
some of the cheaper cordless screwdrivers have planetary gears in them, many years ago I bought about 6 of them (for something silly like £1 each) and used the planetary gears the other way around, one to produce a fine focus knob for a telescope, and also to produce a drive system for tracking the stars that was geared down to approximately 1 revolution per day, the cordless screwdrivers use planetary gears to increase the torque and slow down the motor speed.
@@ThinkingandTinkering yes they work both directions , I wonder if there is a way to make a centrifical clutch to lock out one or some of the ratios for different winds speeds?
@@maxgood42 Sturmey-Archer did this decades ago. All you would need is a govenor weight on the hub, held back by spring pressure, as rpm rises/falls the weight pulls/releases the selector cable, and changes gear(s). You could do similar to pivot the blades to 'feather' the angleof attack. (Ive done the latter, with a thrust-release bearing, I can adjust the torque/rpm limit while it is turning).
@@dSquared0162 no i wish i was on commission lol - they are a good machine for sure mate and they help me in doing what i do - it's all i can say about them really
I really can't wait to see this working in the wind! I'm about to embark on building an off-grid home, and am so inspired to scale-up & include some of the amazing ideas from this channel.
I printed my first balbearing. And to try it out. I have printed a 21 cm fidget Body. And put the bal bearing in it . It spins like Crazy. Its so nice to be able to print your own balbarrings.
Thank you for continuing to amaze and educate! I love seeing how enthusiastic and joyful you are every step of the way! This looks remarkable as are your tesla turbine videos. Binge watching your content right now and loving every moment!
I love it Robert. We are currently working on an actuator at my employer that uses a very similar planetary gear system. Not to state the obvious, a major factor we found was gear quality is paramount to efficiency. Any gear “roughness” had a direct effect on the overall performance. 3D printing gears is excellent for proof of concept, but good quality gears will produce much better efficiency.
Planetary gears look fun to play with. It would be cool to hook up a motor/generator to either end to measure wattage in vs wattage out so you can estimate systemic energy loss across multiple stages.
Once again brilliant. I think starting torque may be an issue so you may need to reduce the gearing a little buy hey, we will see, Can't wait. Thanks for the best channel on you tube Rob.
This is my concern too - so I can't wait to see how it performs and whether the starting torque is a problem or not, and if it is how Rob will choose to get around it! Really enjoying this project. Thank you Rob!
I agree mate - but to be honest I have no idea - however, you might have noticed i did the ring gear in sections too so i can alter the gearing pretty easily if i want to - the plan is to try it out and modify it on the hoof so to speak and see what we get
if you have a look at my reply to Peter - you will get an idea of what i plan mate - of course if it works straight from the bat I am going to crow like mad lolol
Looks like there's quite a bit of resistance to turn and with light wind it may never move. Need to see your entire system to evaluate the estimated output. Waiting with baited breath because I need to make this, to charge my hydroponic batteries if the sun don't shine on the panels. Thanks Rob!
How much energy is there in low velocity wind, and is that juice worth the squeeze? Intermittent generation is the bugaboo with most small-scale generation. Sometimes the sun doesn't shine, sometimes the wind doesn't blow. Current thought is to store energy generated in times of plenty to use in times of scarcity.
@@ThinkingandTinkeringRight, maybe the solution is to put the fan blades on the planetary gears themselves at each level, so when its light wind it activates the low gear and then slowly builds up, if thats even possible? Anyways thats what i was imagining when seen those staacking gears, it remined me of an automatic transmision, but for wind. That would be cool if it would work, a turbine that works at all wind speed, maybe these planetary gears or magnetic ones are the key to do it.
Love your enthusiasm and ingenuity! I'd be interested in how noisy the final unit would be and how you might then go on to make the lightest, most efficient and quietest portable wind turbine out there. That would certainly be the most usable option as well :-)
Before adding more gears, tips is to try it under full load. The load often cause the whole thing to become very hard to turn and can damage the gears.
Rob and team, you will never get a job in power generation because you are to productive and successful. Yet another great educational video. Many thanks.
Magnesium fire starters and graphite pencils can produce up to 1.5volts per cell please help us with concurrence or better. As always I love all you do.
Brilliant show, mate. I would love to see it with four on it, as that would be scary indeed. Look out as you might get so much voltage you will not melt the wires just measuring, but the electricity can jump across if not careful (breakdown voltage of the wire sleeve material).
A suggestion，maybe you should add a automatic clutch system between the generator and the gearbox to let the blade build up speed before start generate power.Or it may need a very fast wind speed to start the rotation .
I like it. I got same result by stacking bicycle rear cassettes. (no 'printer', just access to tons of scrap bikes and a MIG welder) I’m still at a question why wind-turbine blades are so slim at the tips. I can understand bird/bat/aeroplane wings being so, for weight to lift and strength considerations. But assuming leverage and torque are the thing wouldn’t blades that are broader at the tips ‘grab’ more air? If weight re lift isn’t a factor, the spine/hub of the blades can be beefed up easily to cope.
just imagining that with a VAWT from one of the previous eps 🤔 also, the durability of those carbon fiber pla/pla+ filaments dang....making me wish I had a larger form-factor printer
@@ThinkingandTinkering 🤔 definitely gonna have to check out those STL files later then (still would LOVE to have a large form-factor printer, especially a core xy type)
Robert showed the amazing strength of home-made plastic infused with graphene - why not similarly infuse the filament mix - three-d print plastic that's stronger than steel!
Nice, and still even with the gears, power out = power in , approximately here. A voltage increase but a current decrease by the same value. P = VI or VA. Another way to boost voltage is with a transformer, perhaps to send the power a few miles away without using thick wires, and then we can use a voltage step-down transformer at the destination.
The gearbox will be a nice source of heat due to the friction losses! In a perfect design the available output torque from the wind turbine will be matched to the torque load of the torque-to-electricity converter part of the system so that the maximum tip to wind speed ratio of the blade tips is not exceeded at design wind speed. In other words - the load (coil design, number of poles etc) should be matched directly to the turbine power curve without the need for gearing up. But its a lovely wee gear box anyway in'it!?
how much additional force must be applied over a 1:! ratio, there must be an exponential ratio relative to the 27:1 that the fan blades must apply? How does that work out please Robert?
The peak voltage only matters if your insulation breaks down. You can always transform the power to a lower voltage and higher amperage, and the impedance is your resistor, only it wasted a lot less energy than resistive losses, especially if you use a ferite coil.
Have you ever seen the size of the wires in the vape pens , not the coils that vaporize the ejuice I'm talking about the wires that carry the electric to the coil/s , they are very fine and they will handle 2 to 3 amps at 3 or 4 volt I think. Also the wire in the AC adapters have to handle at least 120 volts , the amps is usually I think in milliamps but I think some of them will handle up to 1.5 amps . That's cool Robert. I'm not trying to push you into frying your generator.
you are right mate i am being a bit over gentle - but i want a minimum target - that is to beat the $400 turbine - if i can do that with the fraction spend i have made so far i will be happy - I also hope others will take this and improve on it mate
Looks like you were putting a fair bit of effort in to get that 100V with no electrical power produced. Those stacked gears will be absorbing a not insignificant amount of power. Be interesting to see how much more difficult it is to turn in a realistic situation when you stick a 10 ohm resistive load between the output terminals... 😊 I think that sized turbine blade won't be big enough...
@@SinsBird Possibly, but those gears are very noisy! Noise = inefficiency.... Best solution is always no gearbox and redesign generator for direct coupling.
@@saiello2061 The approach really depends on ones abilities, some people are better with mechanical part, others with electrical. So whatever takes the least effort and money per kwh is the way to go. Anyways, there is/was a 3d printable wind turbine on thingiverse called MKIII that seems like a pretty interesting project if you have access to cheap 3D printing. The only problem with it is that it's using a stepper motor and if I'm not mistaken steppers are terrible generators, much better to use a DC motor on it.
Quick question on another topic. What if I just chucked graphite, and milk into a blender for half an hour and then precipitated that with vinegar? Then dry and grind. Is there a fundamental reason why I wouldn’t get a decent quality graphene casein plastic?
I live the gearing sysyem on that and want to build one mtself. Im looking at adding it to a solar inverter system, is there any way of limiting the output voltage to say 48v or whatever the input voltage of the system is? Pumping in 100v would not be great 😕
i have boxes of old cordless drills and they have the stacked planetary gear stuff in them between the motor and the chuck, it also has a lever that must push one of the ring gears from a higher speed to a lower speed set of gears. so i took one apart and it ended up in a heap of little metal bobbies abnd i couldnt quite figure out how to put it back together. but yeah, i can put a fan blade in the chuck, spin it up, and the motor spins crazy fast shooting power at me. i like big plastic gears tho, think ill print some up!
oh we will get what we want mate and then some - I modeled this after a best selling folding wind turbine which produces 40 watts from a 28mph wind - that's 12.5M per second - selling for $400 - we have already beaten that in lower wind speed tests
Current could be anything, it depends on the device being powered, a device "pulls" the amps from the generator, the amount "pulled" increases with voltage - an LED array rated at 25v 0.25A would draw 1A at 100v (it would also burn out). The same device can be built with more parrelel or series elements to work at different voltages.
@@ThinkingandTinkering Imagine how much power you could have bought with that amount of investment. I don't think you will ever get to a profit. Just like the big ones, that only run subsidized. Sorry that I don't believe in it but keep the joy in experimenting. Love your video's btw.
How much power it produces depends on how much wind power goes into it. How big is the swept area and wind speed. The question is, how efficient is it at capturing that power.
When will you release a completed unit with the wind concentrator system buddy love to see you focus on a final solution. I would of thought the magnetic motors with serpentine generator with planetary gears plus wind concentrator would be the holy grail
High volts doesn't make the wires hotter, if anything it makes them cooler, you can make the same power with less heat using higher voltages as it negates the wire resistance. Your voltage is only limited by arc distance, I think 200v is safe.
If you could water proof that and put on a spiral impeller so you could put it in a stream like a lure on a string 🤔 constant speed with constant flow.
Could you maybe make a mould for the components and then cast them using the graphine plastic youve made previously? Just wondering about durability...could be about as practical as required if you could make it work.
The world would be such a miserable place without you Rob - sitting here in awe !!! way to go. What will we do without you? We need to start a foundation....
lol - cheers and all the best!
Not entirely comfy with your kinda presumptive 'What will we do without you' allusion there...
@@bikerfirefarter7280lol - don't be mean mate - it was meant in a nice way lol
@@ThinkingandTinkering I know, I was joking, no disrespect meant. :-)
Sometimes my sense of humour can be a bit obscure.
I'd be mortified if anyone was actually offended.
Peace.
@@bikerfirefarter7280 oh i am sorry mate - i know - i was trying to joke right back at you - my bad i mistimed my joke - sorry
Mechanical solutions are so charming and elegant.
Your getting a great deal from your planetary gears and I'm gaining a world of knowledge from your videos.
You are a genius. Making this for free is beyond generous, and providing comprehensive coverage and explanations alongside the files ALSO FOR FREE is legendary. You are inspiring a generation of innovation with your work, thank you so much.
A really amazing progress in the way this works. Great demonstration Robert!
Glad you like it
@@ThinkingandTinkering Progress - combining simple things that works into much more complex things that works :D
some of the cheaper cordless screwdrivers have planetary gears in them, many years ago I bought about 6 of them (for something silly like £1 each) and used the planetary gears the other way around, one to produce a fine focus knob for a telescope, and also to produce a drive system for tracking the stars that was geared down to approximately 1 revolution per day, the cordless screwdrivers use planetary gears to increase the torque and slow down the motor speed.
well worth looking ut for and keeping if you get a cheap source mate
@@ThinkingandTinkering yes they work both directions , I wonder if there is a way to make a centrifical clutch to lock out one or some of the ratios for different winds speeds?
@@maxgood42 Sturmey-Archer did this decades ago. All you would need is a govenor weight on the hub, held back by spring pressure, as rpm rises/falls the weight pulls/releases the selector cable, and changes gear(s).
You could do similar to pivot the blades to 'feather' the angleof attack. (Ive done the latter, with a thrust-release bearing, I can adjust the torque/rpm limit while it is turning).
Absolutely incredible work Robert! Your infectious and inspiring outbursts of joy keep so many inventors working around the world.
Brilliant I love to see the ideas come to life and the way yo guys are presenting it to us. Thanks for always making my day a little more inspired..
Thank you most kindly, Robert, you're a international treasure!
cheers mate
He never ceases to fekin amaze me this bloke, what a star.
lol - cheers mate
he really, really is !!
This is the “KISS” strategy at genius level!
Looking unbelievably good! 👍👋
Thank you! Cheers!
@@ThinkingandTinkering I put my order in for a Neptune 4 last week so I can try all this for myself. My one word description for you sir? Prolific!
@@dSquared0162 no i wish i was on commission lol - they are a good machine for sure mate and they help me in doing what i do - it's all i can say about them really
Robert always seems to be having so much fun doing what he's doing.
I really can't wait to see this working in the wind!
I'm about to embark on building an off-grid home, and am so inspired to scale-up & include some of the amazing ideas from this channel.
I love just your enthusiasm! Cheers Rob
I printed my first balbearing.
And to try it out.
I have printed a 21 cm fidget Body.
And put the bal bearing in it .
It spins like Crazy.
Its so nice to be able to print your own balbarrings.
Thank you for continuing to amaze and educate! I love seeing how enthusiastic and joyful you are every step of the way! This looks remarkable as are your tesla turbine videos. Binge watching your content right now and loving every moment!
I love it Robert. We are currently working on an actuator at my employer that uses a very similar planetary gear system. Not to state the obvious, a major factor we found was gear quality is paramount to efficiency. Any gear “roughness” had a direct effect on the overall performance. 3D printing gears is excellent for proof of concept, but good quality gears will produce much better efficiency.
Awesome video
I can only manage that behind the camera is row after row of 3D printers churning away. Amazing stuff.
Brilliant! I’m thoroughly impressed, as usual!
Nice. Planetary gears are very cool. I wonder if they can be made to be quiet.
more grease and tighter tolerances! Oh and some bearings - there are no bearings in this
Glue?
We need to keep this man alive at all costs
great video, it shows how the world arround us really works!
by this video you have demystified the gondolas in wind turbines for a lot of us
i am glad you found it useful mate
The magic of a force multiplier.
lol indeed
Nice gearbox Rob. Maybe add some grease to the gears and if you make a second version you could print it in nylon or even mono-filament fishing line.
Love the planetary gear box! 👍
cheers mate
You have so much fun with this stuff and that makes it highly entertaining to watch.
cheers mate
That's amazing Rob, love the laugh as always 😂😂😂
cheers mate
OMG 104V !!! ~ ~ ~ Well done you!. Always great to hear your happy voice. Thank you :)
Another brilliant invention! 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Glad you like it!
Planetary gears look fun to play with. It would be cool to hook up a motor/generator to either end to measure wattage in vs wattage out so you can estimate systemic energy loss across multiple stages.
Loving the waiste coat and chain.
Crikey Rob, you are a champion. Bloody excellent.
Once again brilliant. I think starting torque may be an issue so you may need to reduce the gearing a little buy hey, we will see, Can't wait. Thanks for the best channel on you tube Rob.
This is my concern too - so I can't wait to see how it performs and whether the starting torque is a problem or not, and if it is how Rob will choose to get around it! Really enjoying this project. Thank you Rob!
I agree mate - but to be honest I have no idea - however, you might have noticed i did the ring gear in sections too so i can alter the gearing pretty easily if i want to - the plan is to try it out and modify it on the hoof so to speak and see what we get
if you have a look at my reply to Peter - you will get an idea of what i plan mate - of course if it works straight from the bat I am going to crow like mad lolol
Brilliant stuff Rob and thanks for sharing the cad files.
Looks like there's quite a bit of resistance to turn and with light wind it may never move. Need to see your entire system to evaluate the estimated output. Waiting with baited breath because I need to make this, to charge my hydroponic batteries if the sun don't shine on the panels. Thanks Rob!
that's a problem for all wind turbines mate - it's why they have a start wind speed as they need a minimum torque to get them turning
How much energy is there in low velocity wind, and is that juice worth the squeeze?
Intermittent generation is the bugaboo with most small-scale generation. Sometimes the sun doesn't shine, sometimes the wind doesn't blow.
Current thought is to store energy generated in times of plenty to use in times of scarcity.
@@ThinkingandTinkeringRight, maybe the solution is to put the fan blades on the planetary gears themselves at each level, so when its light wind it activates the low gear and then slowly builds up, if thats even possible? Anyways thats what i was imagining when seen those staacking gears, it remined me of an automatic transmision, but for wind. That would be cool if it would work, a turbine that works at all wind speed, maybe these planetary gears or magnetic ones are the key to do it.
@@mikejones-vd3fginteresting ,if possible.
@@mikejones-vd3fg that's clever mate - i never thought about it - well until now - thanks for sharing
You are a rock star. My mind is spinning at a 100 + at the moment...
Jolly good stuff, Rob! A like and comment for the algorithm 🎉
awesome mate - cheers
And another
You really are an open book Rob. Love it . Absolutely mind blowing 🤯. I'll hold my tongue from now on. No spoilers 😂
You are fantastic dude!! FANTASTIC!!!
I really like where this is headed!
cheers mate
You could build a large and inconvenient high power hand-crank taser with this mechanism.
My first thought! 😄
lol - that would sting!
Capacitor discharge on trigger.
Cops running after perps while cranking a big plastic dynamo on a capacitor - every foot chase has to be longer than a minute.
Love your enthusiasm and ingenuity! I'd be interested in how noisy the final unit would be and how you might then go on to make the lightest, most efficient and quietest portable wind turbine out there. That would certainly be the most usable option as well :-)
Before adding more gears, tips is to try it under full load. The load often cause the whole thing to become very hard to turn and can damage the gears.
Thinking the same myself,😊
Another fantastic video! Thank you very much!
Quite a fantastic video, perhaps a video displaying the torque requirement to turn it and a way to determine blade size and wind speed
make it stronger with graphene 😁👍Thanks for this channel!
Great strides mate.
This is all so very, very helpful right now. :)
Glad it was helpful!
Very impressive, please keep up the good work! Can't wait for the next video
Absolutely incredible Rob - Keep it coming😀😀😃
cheers mate
CHAMPION WORK !
cheers mate
Fantastic job mate.. thanks 👍
Glad you enjoyed it
Rob and team, you will never get a job in power generation because you are to productive and successful. Yet another great educational video. Many thanks.
lol - cheers mate
Magnesium fire starters and graphite pencils can produce up to 1.5volts per cell please help us with concurrence or better. As always I love all you do.
Brilliant show, mate. I would love to see it with four on it, as that would be scary indeed. Look out as you might get so much voltage you will not melt the wires just measuring, but the electricity can jump across if not careful (breakdown voltage of the wire sleeve material).
Amazing! Perhaps you can make the straight gears into herringbone gears? That should significantly reduce the noise.
A suggestion，maybe you should add a automatic clutch system between the generator and the gearbox to let the blade build up speed before start generate power.Or it may need a very fast wind speed to start the rotation .
Good idea 👍
yes, and you deserve "to be feeling very good about that", Robert. WTG!
cheers mate
Champion. Thank you.
I can’t wait to see it !😅
cheers mate
I like it. I got same result by stacking bicycle rear cassettes. (no 'printer', just access to tons of scrap bikes and a MIG welder)
I’m still at a question why wind-turbine blades are so slim at the tips. I can understand bird/bat/aeroplane wings being so, for weight to lift and strength considerations. But assuming leverage and torque are the thing wouldn’t blades that are broader at the tips ‘grab’ more air? If weight re lift isn’t a factor, the spine/hub of the blades can be beefed up easily to cope.
good question mate and good alternative source of gearing cheers me ol' china
You definitely have a point there-worth taking a closer at I believe.
Oh tinker Bob! ❤
lol
You my friend are amazing. Thank you!
wow - thanks mate
Thicker gauged wires will lower the voltage to a more useable voltage while increasing the amps, and more blades give more torque less RPM
cheers mate
just imagining that with a VAWT from one of the previous eps 🤔
also, the durability of those carbon fiber pla/pla+ filaments
dang....making me wish I had a larger form-factor printer
i made this so a small form factor printer can print it mate
@@ThinkingandTinkering 🤔
definitely gonna have to check out those STL files later then (still would LOVE to have a large form-factor printer, especially a core xy type)
@@mofoq build one.
@@mofoq i can't deny it mate a large form factor is really cool lol
Robert showed the amazing strength of home-made plastic infused with graphene - why not similarly infuse the filament mix - three-d print plastic that's stronger than steel!
Nice, and still even with the gears, power out = power in , approximately here. A voltage increase but a current decrease by the same value. P = VI or VA. Another way to boost voltage is with a transformer, perhaps to send the power a few miles away without using thick wires, and then we can use a voltage step-down transformer at the destination.
Wow! 👏🤯👌 this is amazing- what kind of amps or watts do you get?
Love that laugh. Videos are great
cheers mate
100 V in the hand crank generator? That's amazing. I want one.
well all the plans are there for you mate
The gearbox will be a nice source of heat due to the friction losses! In a perfect design the available output torque from the wind turbine will be matched to the torque load of the torque-to-electricity converter part of the system so that the maximum tip to wind speed ratio of the blade tips is not exceeded at design wind speed. In other words - the load (coil design, number of poles etc) should be matched directly to the turbine power curve without the need for gearing up. But its a lovely wee gear box anyway in'it!?
how much additional force must be applied over a 1:! ratio, there must be an exponential ratio relative to the 27:1 that the fan blades must apply? How does that work out please Robert?
Great ! - have you looked at the unit used to go “arctic circle to south pole “ with a modified leaf car ?
no mate - i have no idea what that is
Some people took a neon leaf & modified it such as superlow pressure tires for snow etc. they used portable windmill setup
Sorry i cant elucidate quicker, new phone; i don’t “cloud “ - you were one of the first i resubscribed to
@@ToddHoldaway Links/reference etc, please. Thank you very much. ;-)
The peak voltage only matters if your insulation breaks down.
You can always transform the power to a lower voltage and higher amperage, and the impedance is your resistor, only it wasted a lot less energy than resistive losses, especially if you use a ferite coil.
Ever thought about using the plastic parts to cast metal ones?
I think this would be a great way to generate electricity by hooking it up to a bike on a stand . . . I wonder how much power it would generate then?
Have you ever seen the size of the wires in the vape pens , not the coils that vaporize the ejuice I'm talking about the wires that carry the electric to the coil/s , they are very fine and they will handle 2 to 3 amps at 3 or 4 volt I think. Also the wire in the AC adapters have to handle at least 120 volts , the amps is usually I think in milliamps but I think some of them will handle up to 1.5 amps . That's cool Robert. I'm not trying to push you into frying your generator.
you are right mate i am being a bit over gentle - but i want a minimum target - that is to beat the $400 turbine - if i can do that with the fraction spend i have made so far i will be happy - I also hope others will take this and improve on it mate
Looks like you were putting a fair bit of effort in to get that 100V with no electrical power produced. Those stacked gears will be absorbing a not insignificant amount of power. Be interesting to see how much more difficult it is to turn in a realistic situation when you stick a 10 ohm resistive load between the output terminals... 😊 I think that sized turbine blade won't be big enough...
No lube and no bearings
@@SinsBird Do what now...?
@@saiello2061 With lubrication and bearings I imagine it would be 3% or 4% power loss on each stage.
@@SinsBird Possibly, but those gears are very noisy! Noise = inefficiency.... Best solution is always no gearbox and redesign generator for direct coupling.
@@saiello2061 The approach really depends on ones abilities, some people are better with mechanical part, others with electrical. So whatever takes the least effort and money per kwh is the way to go. Anyways, there is/was a 3d printable wind turbine on thingiverse called MKIII that seems like a pretty interesting project if you have access to cheap 3D printing. The only problem with it is that it's using a stepper motor and if I'm not mistaken steppers are terrible generators, much better to use a DC motor on it.
Quick question on another topic. What if I just chucked graphite, and milk into a blender for half an hour and then precipitated that with vinegar? Then dry and grind. Is there a fundamental reason why I wouldn’t get a decent quality graphene casein plastic?
what about the cooling/lubrication of the gearbox?
Amazing , way huge progress , what would maight the Amps output would be ??? Lets say at 24 volts how many Amps ? All the best .
do wind turbines ordinarily have such multiple gears to increase voltage?
I live the gearing sysyem on that and want to build one mtself. Im looking at adding it to a solar inverter system, is there any way of limiting the output voltage to say 48v or whatever the input voltage of the system is?
Pumping in 100v would not be great 😕
i have boxes of old cordless drills and they have the stacked planetary gear stuff in them between the motor and the chuck, it also has a lever that must push one of the ring gears from a higher speed to a lower speed set of gears. so i took one apart and it ended up in a heap of little metal bobbies abnd i couldnt quite figure out how to put it back together. but yeah, i can put a fan blade in the chuck, spin it up, and the motor spins crazy fast shooting power at me. i like big plastic gears tho, think ill print some up!
Amazing stuff! Youre fast approaching video 2000 too, have you any thoughts on how to celebrate it?
oh the new millennium of videos lol I will have to think of something now! - cheers mate
So I wonder, how much wattage can this produce? Sure there can be around 100 volts but what would be the current?
oh we will get what we want mate and then some - I modeled this after a best selling folding wind turbine which produces 40 watts from a 28mph wind - that's 12.5M per second - selling for $400 - we have already beaten that in lower wind speed tests
Current could be anything, it depends on the device being powered, a device "pulls" the amps from the generator, the amount "pulled" increases with voltage - an LED array rated at 25v 0.25A would draw 1A at 100v (it would also burn out). The same device can be built with more parrelel or series elements to work at different voltages.
@@ThinkingandTinkering Imagine how much power you could have bought with that amount of investment. I don't think you will ever get to a profit. Just like the big ones, that only run subsidized. Sorry that I don't believe in it but keep the joy in experimenting. Love your video's btw.
@@onnonius you can make profit by building and selling the turbine
How much power it produces depends on how much wind power goes into it. How big is the swept area and wind speed. The question is, how efficient is it at capturing that power.
have you ever shipped a full working ver of (1964) updated ver of course just a ? and or would
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cheers mate
great job
cheers mate
When will you release a completed unit with the wind concentrator system buddy love to see you focus on a final solution. I would of thought the magnetic motors with serpentine generator with planetary gears plus wind concentrator would be the holy grail
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cheers mate
Very neat.
thank you mate
How backdrivable is the 27:1?
What if you made 2 more, and set them up so each was a planet gear of a larger 3 phase system?
That is amazing I wish I had a 3D printer oh and a pc to operate it 😂
High volts doesn't make the wires hotter, if anything it makes them cooler, you can make the same power with less heat using higher voltages as it negates the wire resistance. Your voltage is only limited by arc distance, I think 200v is safe.
cheers mate
Beautiful work .🌹🚅🚂🚴
Thank you! Cheers!
If you could water proof that and put on a spiral impeller so you could put it in a stream like a lure on a string 🤔 constant speed with constant flow.
Could you maybe make a mould for the components and then cast them using the graphine plastic youve made previously?
Just wondering about durability...could be about as practical as required if you could make it work.