I have followed your channel for some time and I know that this is the result of many years of work, with a lot of challenges along the way to put it mildly! To open source the design with such a professional video is staggeringly impressive. This is precisely the attitude that will save this world from going down the pan for good. Respect and thanks to you! 👍🙏💚
Well, it's been much requested and a long time coming, but the full step by step build tutorial for the siphon hydro turbine is finally finished. I hope you find it useful, and if so please share it to any groups, forums, FB pages, subreddits, email lists etc that you think may find it interesting. I don't get a lot of views from the algorithm, so it's going to mostly come down to community reach and word of mouth to get this in front of those it'd hopefully benefit. Full step by step tutorial text: opensourcelowtech.org/water_turbine.html And thanks to all of you for the sustained impatience in this finally getting done, it's been great to see how many people are keen to start making and using this technology. Any questions email me, or post them here and I'll make sure to be of help as I'm able. Cheers all. ~Daniel
Hi Daniel, thank you for sharing your ideas view this medium. I hope to build a replica of your water turbine and share it with you. Please provide me your email so I can contact you, thank you and God bless you all the way from Papua New Guinea!
Thank you for this video. It is so clear and easy to follow. It was a joy to watch. I wish all construction videos were made like this, a joy to watch.
@@OpenSourceLowTech Assuming i have a potent enough stream, if I need more power output, can I put say 3 or more of these in the same stream and get a consistent output of 1.5kw
Details on materials, tools, and step by step build instructions are available (free) at: opensourcelowtech.org/water_turbine.html Any questions let me know.
While the chances of me having somewhere to make use of a turbine approach zero I can see how incredibly valuable this video is, very smart placing the electrical part out of the water via a fan and shaft enabling it to be built with cheap easily found parts. Excellent video, anyone can quickly grasp what is involved, great choice in background music as well :)
@@rentisme Smart ideas are usually percieved as common sense after the first person actualises it into the real world. If it was common sense then plenty of others would have done it already instead of trying to make an electrical component water tight and put it underwater :)
Thankyou! In Asia trying to come up with micro hydro ideas for IDPS and refugees and medical clinics. solar does not work well in rainy season. Not sure I can replicate this but the success is encouraging.
Hi Daniel. Thank you soooo much for sharing this tutorial. I am a woman in Ireland rural living and am going to try this as i have a small river on my land. Hopefully it will be a success. Can you show me how to connect this up to store and use electricity for my mobile home if poss. I think you are awesome helping people to source their own electricity and everything else you do around the world. We need more people in the world like you ❤❤❤😊😊😊
Glad to hear it. The electrical side of things will depend on your specifics, but if you're on FB post here about it and we'll help out as best we can: facebook.com/groups/windturbinemakers
awesome idea! a slight decrease in pipe size and a cone on the fan would slightly improve performance, and adding another prop should add more torque, but may reduce overall speed, these are the projects that change the world, little by little.. great stuff..
Being a momentum turbine generally the bigger the pipes the better because more flow, but there is a constriction point across the impeller which does up the revs and therefor voltage, while hopefully not reducing the overall flow to much and therefor torque and amps. One of the main things I'll be testing with the 3D printed impellers is kind of reversing the current situation of that constriction coming in to meet the smaller impeller, so that instead the hub of the impeller is larger and the blades (whichever shape turns out to be most efficient) are at a larger radius to meet the pipe wall. That should hopefully mean more torque from the runner with no reduction of flow. But we'll see what happens in reality. Two spaced impellers on the one shaft is also an option and may well increase overall power, yeah.
@@OpenSourceLowTech if you want two impellers then you will need a static blade that turns the water the other way in between the two spinning impellers. That is how a jet engine works. Otherwise you get no additional power. ua-cam.com/video/L24Wf0VlTE0/v-deo.html
I just stumbled across this video. I’m going to have to look into some of the others to get some context, but I subscribed anyway. Looks like you’re doing some interesting work.
I’m no engineer but could this design work on a house down pipe? Would it create any energy from say a heavy rain fall, especially if you had one on each down section of pipe coming from the roof
Dose it make sence to try a 3d printed impeller using somthing like smiler too hump back wale fin nodules, they can increes lift and I would love to see what it can do in a turbine like this. I know that would make it more doficoult to produce but as you have tested some other 3d printed designs I would love to see this one aswell.
Best 3D animation I have ever seen. This detailed project may be a nice idea for an engineers practicum. I Would go for a simpler application on a farm. Nice, though 😊
Two things I noticed while watching this video: 1, the majority of this project can be 3D printed which is amazing. 2, this is basically wave runner jet drive, but obviously in generator format.
I'll be parallel testing a half dozen 3D printable runner options when I get the chance, some are pretty exotic, some are basically just propellers not unlike jetskis.
This is awesome, and with seriously impressive power generation. I don't know much about the physics of turbines but why is the turbine at the top of the waterfall rather than at the bottom? Is there only water in the tube and no air? If there is air, what does it matter how much the drop is if the turbine is at the top? Thanks!
They are, as they're not really strictly speaking being used as wingnuts in this situation, so much as span lock nuts. ie the wings aren't for putting on and off by hand, but to engage mechanically with the next component up the driveshaft in a way that can't slip.
Crazy idea here that might help some of the issues you've experienced with blades breaking, clogs, and excessive wear against rocks and dirt: what if you used the water to pull a vacuum and place the fan/generator in the vacuum intake? This effectively creates a hybrid water/wind turbine where the water creates the wind that powers the turbine, but given the relative cleanliness of air, you avoid most of the major wear issues. The biggest challenge here though might be keeping the siphon. Thoughts?
Interesting idea, tho it would definitely break the siphon unless something very elegant can be thought of, and there's a lot more momentum and torque in water over your runner than air. Also you're basically halving your mass and therefore max system power, unless, again, something elegant. But it could be a potentially good solution to the issues as you say. I'll give it some thought..
@@OpenSourceLowTech a further suggestion here that I'm pondering is using something like a Pythagorean cup, but with the top sealed except as connected to an air intake hose. When the water level reaches a certain point, a siphon is activated that drains the cup. The action of this siphon naturally draws in air, creating a sort of "breath" as it drains. My naive intuition is that a series of these could be attached to the same air intake with the timings sufficiently offset from each other to create a relatively constant flow. Theoretically this entire assembly could also be miniaturized, but of course there are many assumptions here that need to be tested first! It's an interesting thought experiment regardless, if not perhaps one day a physical one!
@@OpenSourceLowTech looked it up, very interesting mechanism. I wonder if positioning the fan at the air intake of the trompe would be sufficient and/or efficient, or if it would make more sense to use the traditional compressed air output, but my original intuition was closer to the first and that's a much simpler, cheaper, and easier to build mechanism. Come to think of it, Venturi wine aerators work similarly to a trompe, but without the pressurization chamber at the bottom. As I find myself lacking a strong background in fluid dynamics, I'm going to consult a much more knowledgeable engineer friend and get back to you. Certainly not an easy optimization problem to solve!
Daniel, thank you for the link, looks great and pretty straight forward to build. I have a fast flowing stream that I could use, so I should be able to generate good power. At 35 l/s flow does it generate 5kwh per day or hour? Also do you have a recommendation for an inverter that can be used.
How meters drop over how much horizontal? I've been using wheels from hoverboards / balance boards / eScooters / Segways and they're more or less ideal. Motorbike alternators are probably the best option for lower resource environments but I've not tried it directly yet other than the very first prototype in Guatemala, but that was a very different configuration.
I would like to bulid this one. Just curious to know - here only one alternator has been used. Can we put additional alternators making some changes? And also the alternator and turbine specifications are not mentioned.
I have followed your channel for some time and I know that this is the result of many years of work, with a lot of challenges along the way to put it mildly! To open source the design with such a professional video is staggeringly impressive. This is precisely the attitude that will save this world from going down the pan for good. Respect and thanks to you! 👍🙏💚
Thanks!
😮
Exactly.
I second the motion 🙏🌟🙏🌟🙏🌟🙏
+1.
Well, it's been much requested and a long time coming, but the full step by step build tutorial for the siphon hydro turbine is finally finished. I hope you find it useful, and if so please share it to any groups, forums, FB pages, subreddits, email lists etc that you think may find it interesting.
I don't get a lot of views from the algorithm, so it's going to mostly come down to community reach and word of mouth to get this in front of those it'd hopefully benefit.
Full step by step tutorial text:
opensourcelowtech.org/water_turbine.html
And thanks to all of you for the sustained impatience in this finally getting done, it's been great to see how many people are keen to start making and using this technology.
Any questions email me, or post them here and I'll make sure to be of help as I'm able.
Cheers all.
~Daniel
Hi Daniel, thank you for sharing your ideas view this medium. I hope to build a replica of your water turbine and share it with you. Please provide me your email so I can contact you, thank you and God bless you all the way from Papua New Guinea!
@@kolishedward4006 Glad to hear it. opensourcelowtech.org (at) gmail .com
Thank you brother, many good ideas here I can’t wait to make mine for our moulin 🤙
Thank you for your content. Outstanding.
@@OpenSourceLowTech is it possible to get a materials list? This video really only gives an idea of what's possible, otherwise.
Great idea tho.
It was the ending which made everything awesome
I thought this was computerphile
Possibly the best use of 3D for an elearning I have ever seen.
Thanks, glad it turned out useful.
Yeah.
I was more impressed with the animations. Very clever, got me to watch the whole vid.
Thank you for sharing! We need this kind of togetherness on the planet
Thank you for this video. It is so clear and easy to follow. It was a joy to watch. I wish all construction videos were made like this, a joy to watch.
Fully agree!
A real joy!😊
Phenomenal engineering and animation skills! Kudos!
Thanks
@@OpenSourceLowTech Assuming i have a potent enough stream, if I need more power output, can I put say 3 or more of these in the same stream and get a consistent output of 1.5kw
Details on materials, tools, and step by step build instructions are available (free) at:
opensourcelowtech.org/water_turbine.html
Any questions let me know.
Wow, this is incredible...not just the concept but how everything is put together. 👏👏👏
Thank you so much from France !!
You are a very good person to do this
While the chances of me having somewhere to make use of a turbine approach zero I can see how incredibly valuable this video is, very smart placing the electrical part out of the water via a fan and shaft enabling it to be built with cheap easily found parts. Excellent video, anyone can quickly grasp what is involved, great choice in background music as well :)
Well it's not smart, it's just common sense, but I get your message
@@rentisme Smart ideas are usually percieved as common sense after the first person actualises it into the real world. If it was common sense then plenty of others would have done it already instead of trying to make an electrical component water tight and put it underwater :)
All instructional videos should be shown this way ,
I waited for it, and it's better that I was expecting for. Thank you so much !!
Glad you liked it, cheers.
Awesome video. I've seen the earlier iterations and really like all the small but genius improvements on the design.
That was brilliant and beautiful to watch!!
Thankyou! In Asia trying to come up with micro hydro ideas for IDPS and refugees and medical clinics. solar does not work well in rainy season. Not sure I can replicate this but the success is encouraging.
Sounds good, what concerns do you have about the building process?
@@OpenSourceLowTechwhat is missing to generate power and use it?
@@fussball-heute Pipe in, pipe out, water.
Phenomenal, need more ppl like you... All the best.
This really is something valuable, thanks and for sharing the tutorial, and congratulations for the work and effort, it will help a lot of people.
A high quality, well-made video 👏
Great detailed instructions! Enjoy your videos immensely!
Thanks.
Very cool! I’ve been interested in the project’s progress since finding you a couple/few years ago. This is super helpful.
Glad to hear it.
What a nice video, incredible approach for step by step explanation, keep up the good job!)
Great video. I’m looking forward to trying to build this!
Hi, that was fantastic animation mate! nice one! take care and have a great day!
Wow, those animations are sooooooo good.
Thanks
Congrats to the person who made this video. Very cool instructions. Good stuff!
I am just shocked by the detail of that animation, well done
I've subbed this channel for a long time and am always impressed. You've outdone yourself his time. 👍
Good to hear, thanks.
I have been waiting for this video for quite some time..THANK YOU!!!
Thanks
Hi Daniel. Thank you soooo much for sharing this tutorial. I am a woman in Ireland rural living and am going to try this as i have a small river on my land. Hopefully it will be a success. Can you show me how to connect this up to store and use electricity for my mobile home if poss. I think you are awesome helping people to source their own electricity and everything else you do around the world. We need more people in the world like you ❤❤❤😊😊😊
Glad to hear it. The electrical side of things will depend on your specifics, but if you're on FB post here about it and we'll help out as best we can:
facebook.com/groups/windturbinemakers
This is a very good tutorial video for me. I hope to see more other types of self-build hydro generator.
This is mesmerizing to watch 😮
Very well done. Great animation. Thank You.
this is an awesome Video! Everything shown super clear and without the need of reading. Wich is good for a world wide usage.
Cheers
Yeah man , thank you so much ! I'have made one and it's work . I Will try to put three of them along the pipe. Good Luck to you
Details, data, and video?
Ok i contact you by mail
awesome idea! a slight decrease in pipe size and a cone on the fan would slightly improve performance, and adding another prop should add more torque, but may reduce overall speed, these are the projects that change the world, little by little.. great stuff..
Being a momentum turbine generally the bigger the pipes the better because more flow, but there is a constriction point across the impeller which does up the revs and therefor voltage, while hopefully not reducing the overall flow to much and therefor torque and amps.
One of the main things I'll be testing with the 3D printed impellers is kind of reversing the current situation of that constriction coming in to meet the smaller impeller, so that instead the hub of the impeller is larger and the blades (whichever shape turns out to be most efficient) are at a larger radius to meet the pipe wall. That should hopefully mean more torque from the runner with no reduction of flow.
But we'll see what happens in reality.
Two spaced impellers on the one shaft is also an option and may well increase overall power, yeah.
@@OpenSourceLowTech if you want two impellers then you will need a static blade that turns the water the other way in between the two spinning impellers. That is how a jet engine works. Otherwise you get no additional power.
ua-cam.com/video/L24Wf0VlTE0/v-deo.html
Yeah, I'll also be experimenting with stators, vectorisers, and the like.
I just stumbled across this video. I’m going to have to look into some of the others to get some context, but I subscribed anyway. Looks like you’re doing some interesting work.
Wow this is easy to follow along. Thanks again for doing this.
Very relaxing and informative and motivational - all in 1!😊
Great job Daniel 👍👍👍
I have also used plastic cutting boards for years for various other purposes, the opening shot showing one being hole sawed up cracked me up!
I’m no engineer but could this design work on a house down pipe? Would it create any energy from say a heavy rain fall, especially if you had one on each down section of pipe coming from the roof
You would need a lot more water than a rain fall to get any appreciable amount of electricity generated...
Beautiful animation. You're easily good enough to be doing that professionally FYI
Thanks
Thank you. Very nicely done.
Thanks.
Thank you so much producers.
Awesome animation👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Thanks
Fantastic music, great graphics…thanks for putting this together…you’re getting a subscription from me!
Brilliant ! one for the algorithm.
Thank you for your amazing video here. Really incredible graphics and easily understandable for a lay person like myself
Thanks
Brilliant concept. Beautiful animation.
Thanks.
I like how he must've made several iterations of this design and thought 'no, I can make it cheaper'
This one I sort of chanced into more or less the current configuration from the start, but usually these things are iterated as you say, yes.
That animation was awesome! Thanks
Lovely Build, Beautiful Video... very professioanl. Thank you
Very good video and a lot of work!
Thank you!
Thanks!
Grazie.
this is an awesome concept. I will attempt and probably fail at making it.
Any questions let me know.
Dose it make sence to try a 3d printed impeller using somthing like smiler too hump back wale fin nodules, they can increes lift and I would love to see what it can do in a turbine like this. I know that would make it more doficoult to produce but as you have tested some other 3d printed designs I would love to see this one aswell.
Nice work, bro 😊)
wonderful work as usual
Thanks a lot for sharing your knowledge ! :)
Highly underrated work
Impressive animation.
Thanks
The animation is at least as impressive as the design and build! Thanks for sharing.
Thanks!
Great Video!
Thanks, was a bit of work but happy with how it turned out.
Beautiful 3D animation work, may I ask what program did you use to create this?
Thanks. Modelled in Rhino, animated etc in Maya, rendered with Arnold. AfterFX and Premiere to compile.
@@OpenSourceLowTech Thank you for responding.
Great, to use it on a yacht to recharge the batteries and thus use an electric motor instead of diesel, ENERGY FOREVER :D
Best 3D animation I have ever seen.
This detailed project may be a nice idea for an engineers practicum.
I Would go for a simpler application on a farm.
Nice, though 😊
Thanks
Two things I noticed while watching this video: 1, the majority of this project can be 3D printed which is amazing. 2, this is basically wave runner jet drive, but obviously in generator format.
I'll be parallel testing a half dozen 3D printable runner options when I get the chance, some are pretty exotic, some are basically just propellers not unlike jetskis.
Amazing work.
Well done sir. Love it.
Concordo plenamente. Trabalho sensacional. Parabéns
awesome video. such graphics my god
This isn't open source, it's just DIY...
But thank you for sharing.
Good information 🎉🎉🎉
A lot of thanks, well done m8!
Nice video, thanks for sharing it :)
Nicely done!
Cheers Geert, fair bit of you guys' help in this.
The best video ever!
Well done! Keep it up!
Excellent video. Thanks so much for your good work.
Great animation.
Pretty chill music
This is awesome, and with seriously impressive power generation. I don't know much about the physics of turbines but why is the turbine at the top of the waterfall rather than at the bottom? Is there only water in the tube and no air? If there is air, what does it matter how much the drop is if the turbine is at the top? Thanks!
very nice!!! yes but I would at moment 1.31 turn around these bolds around as they might get lost inside the tube
Facing out is also an option, yes.
So Excited for this! Do we / can we create a community map of places where it may be suitable to install this?
This is a fun idea!
Amazing ❤❤❤
What a wonderful video
Are those wingnuts on backward? I've never seen wingnuts used that direction
They are, as they're not really strictly speaking being used as wingnuts in this situation, so much as span lock nuts.
ie the wings aren't for putting on and off by hand, but to engage mechanically with the next component up the driveshaft in a way that can't slip.
Stunning Video!
Crazy idea here that might help some of the issues you've experienced with blades breaking, clogs, and excessive wear against rocks and dirt: what if you used the water to pull a vacuum and place the fan/generator in the vacuum intake? This effectively creates a hybrid water/wind turbine where the water creates the wind that powers the turbine, but given the relative cleanliness of air, you avoid most of the major wear issues. The biggest challenge here though might be keeping the siphon. Thoughts?
Interesting idea, tho it would definitely break the siphon unless something very elegant can be thought of, and there's a lot more momentum and torque in water over your runner than air.
Also you're basically halving your mass and therefore max system power, unless, again, something elegant.
But it could be a potentially good solution to the issues as you say.
I'll give it some thought..
@@OpenSourceLowTech a further suggestion here that I'm pondering is using something like a Pythagorean cup, but with the top sealed except as connected to an air intake hose. When the water level reaches a certain point, a siphon is activated that drains the cup. The action of this siphon naturally draws in air, creating a sort of "breath" as it drains. My naive intuition is that a series of these could be attached to the same air intake with the timings sufficiently offset from each other to create a relatively constant flow. Theoretically this entire assembly could also be miniaturized, but of course there are many assumptions here that need to be tested first! It's an interesting thought experiment regardless, if not perhaps one day a physical one!
You know trompes?
@@OpenSourceLowTech looked it up, very interesting mechanism. I wonder if positioning the fan at the air intake of the trompe would be sufficient and/or efficient, or if it would make more sense to use the traditional compressed air output, but my original intuition was closer to the first and that's a much simpler, cheaper, and easier to build mechanism. Come to think of it, Venturi wine aerators work similarly to a trompe, but without the pressurization chamber at the bottom. As I find myself lacking a strong background in fluid dynamics, I'm going to consult a much more knowledgeable engineer friend and get back to you. Certainly not an easy optimization problem to solve!
Have you considered using a turbo charger impeller??
Sweet plans! Thanks!
Daniel, thank you for the link, looks great and pretty straight forward to build. I have a fast flowing stream that I could use, so I should be able to generate good power.
At 35 l/s flow does it generate 5kwh per day or hour?
Also do you have a recommendation for an inverter that can be used.
How meters drop over how much horizontal?
I've been using wheels from hoverboards / balance boards / eScooters / Segways and they're more or less ideal.
Motorbike alternators are probably the best option for lower resource environments but I've not tried it directly yet other than the very first prototype in Guatemala, but that was a very different configuration.
brilliant! ❤🎉
Can you make a video of a walkthrough of the animation program you used for this? And how you did it?
Modelled in Rhino, everything else in Maya. There's not really a specific methodology as such, just basic element and camera animation, etc.
Great video
I would like to bulid this one. Just curious to know - here only one alternator has been used. Can we put additional alternators making some changes? And also the alternator and turbine specifications are not mentioned.
So what was it's operation life? How many hours?
Question: adding a Second, or Additional Impellers / Fans, to capture more Energy, has that been considered?