Micro Hydro Power with Turgo generator Part 1
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- Опубліковано 8 вер 2024
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This video covers the installation of a microhydro system in a mountain stream. The goal is to be able to charge a 24v battery bank and produce about 10,000 watts of power a day. If this is not enough power, we are going to supplement with a small solar array.
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This stuff really works. I designed and built a micro hydro system 38 years ago and it has worked 24/7 ever since. Original turbine and pipe work, but had to get a new generator a few years ago. Powering this email.
16 years here!
Now I just need to buy a creek and move it close to my house. Very cool.
Just use the electricity you produce to pump water into the tub. Unlimited energy!!!
XCritonX you will use more power than it produces.
just open your all your faucets. The hydro pressure from your water company should be strong enough.
joebonsaipoland. people who are lucky to have a stream on their property can have a nice hydro system. wish I had that!
I can't speak for others but, using faucets adds to my city bill ie " I pay for water" I do believe his idea/turbine gives you free energy from natural running water source(completely free)..if your water is free then use faucets to ones heart content :-)
I was a hydroelectric powerplant mechanic for several years at the 3 biggest hydroplants in Colorado on the Gunnison river. Always love to see small little units like this. Great work. After working and operating the big units I think I would just be impatient with my own setup lol. The biggest unit I've worked on daily produces 60MW almost nonstop 24/7 except for 3 weeks of maintenance once a year. The biggest unit at Grand Cooley cranks out 600MW!!!
So how big or small of a creek could be used? It's year round. We tried measuring gpm with a 5 gallon bucket.
When you down size the pipe from 4" to 2" use a longer cone instead of a coupler you will get more velocity out of the pressure and increased flow, every little bit counts.
Ventury effect?
@@justfixitchris8361 no
@@allywilkeforsenate so what is it then?
@@justfixitchris8361 Volume too Velocity change, but not ventury affect. Just increasing water speed.
Alot of critics...the fact that you got it up and running is more then what most people are capable of doing..good job!
Great job.
Once you get it dialed in.
Put in a custom box for it including a cover.
Mines been going great for 12 years now.. Batterys are still good.
Runs a 6 bedroom 5 bath home..
4 freezers 2 refers and 2 heat pumps
..lights etc.
Dang! How many kw is yours?
Awesome job describing hydro power which I think is a critical component to homesteading! Solar is 50% reliable but water flow is 24 hours, minus any droughts. Great work and I really enjoyed this video!!!!!
Yeah, that damn unpredictable Sun goes up and down when it wants to, while the droughts come and go at a certain time. I fully agree.
lol
lmao
Solar has no moving parts, less to go wrong.
I would recommend having both, with battery backup. But I live in the suburbs and don't have either.
Droughts, frost and cluttered pipes
Your project is encouraging. We put in one-quarter mile of 8" pvc pipe that draws from our creek. Securing it to the creek bed has been a challenge. We are not there yet. My friend Paul is a retired electrical engineer. He'll guide me in all the electrical stuff. I need to find the right size of inline generator or something like what you have.
We use to play in our college with this kind of propeller in hydrodynamics class this application is cool .
It is a impeller centrifugal volute type may be
Are you an engineer now?
Thanks for sharing your hydro project and I can't wait to see the rest of this installation with as much detail as you can share.
I have found a piece of property left over from the second world war that has a old power house and 500 feet of 8 inch steel pipe with 125 feet of drop still in place.
Having a independent off grid power system is a big step in being self sufficient so I hope to join you in this independence one day, Again great work !
You need to use a step up at the generator and step down at the house - 300 ft is a hefty ask with low voltage - If you put an MPPT tracker unit on it will let your hydrogenation work at its optimum while charging the battery bank at their optimum
300 feet at high voltage 3ph AC from the turgo, gets rectified closer to the 24V battery bank, perfectly acceptable.
24v wouldn't make it past 100ft.
I've never seen a levitating Micro Hydro turbine before!
It's been a few years, how is that motenergy alternator and the lexan/aluminum turgo turbine holding up? I think many of us would like to hear about it long term. Thanks for sharing that project with us.
Very cool. Being a rocketry enthusiast I wonder if instead of flat conversion pipe from 4" to 2" and then to the intake, if you went from 4" through a funnel adapter that is rifled - spiral to initiate higher thrust at the input to the generator. It would require a custom piece, but the generator company would be able to market it and have higher efficiency.
Rifled potato gun barrels are out there.
I need something like this, but I only have a spring, to work with, I would probably have a high pressure, low volume, I could probably use about 40' of 6"pipe, then funnel down to 1.5" at the nozzle. I may build a resivor, use extra solar to pump from the creek, for hard times, I think a water "battery" is more effiecent. Genearte the power as needed, over storing in batteries, I'm offgrid, so every watt counts!
Thanks for the information, when I’m out hunting prepper bunkers after the SHTF, I can stop the propeller and when they come out to fix it, I’m able to take over!
Awesome video
Is that before or after I scope out the area with my AR and infrared for heat signatures, boom, say night night.
Finally someone smart enough to run the 3 phase to the control room. So many out there rectify first at the turbine and then have to deal with DC line loss. Duh. I'm subbed. Great vid guys. I did all the testing here on cheap 1 1/4" pipe so now going 3" x 600' and 35' head. I think we'll see success.. Hydro is always the way to go if you were smart enough to purchase the right property to begin with. Far less batteries needed due to 24/7 power.
Smart anytime you can run AC for long wire runs. Much less inductive loss. A transformer to up the voltage will allow smaller gauge wire runs. Solar inverter panels and 3 phase alternators for wind or hydro sources to generate AC.
I ran a pelton wheel for 25 years , 2200 rpm at 90psi out of a 2inch pipe , the pipe was 1klm long 4" for 500m and 2" for the other 500m , the wheel was outside my kitchen window driving a 55amp car alternator , I was getting a continuous 17amps into a set of 12v 1300 amp batteries , we were burnt out on black saturday and bought another property with grid power , I must say it was nice to flick a switch and not have to worry about maintanence or a back up generator for welding etc , the bills wasn't nice though , good luck with your system
I agree with the other commenter, DC is not used for any long runs because of the losses in power. Tesla and Edison had this argument long
ago
Wrong. That was being argued by Tesla and Edison well before we had high current switching transistors controlled by high speed electronics to recreate AC artificially from DC using inverters. There are plenty of long distance high voltage DC cables including under the sea.
There is a transmission line from the pacific north west which carries power down to LA. It is operated with DC power because of the markedly increased current carrying ampacity of the lines when DC power is being run through them. When power lines carry alternating electric current the actual flow occurs in the area of the wire that is furthest from the center. An AC Current will not make use of the complete cross section of the conductor as it's flow path. That makes the ampacity; current carrying capacity expressed in amperes; of any conductor less when it is carrying AC power. The higher the frequency of the AC power the larger the difference in any given conductors ampacity. The reason that most of the electrical transmission grid operates on AC power is that it is less expensive, with the presently available technology, to change the voltage of AC power than it is DC. To maximize the power in watts that any given transmission line can carry the voltage is raised to the highest practical level that the conductors can be insulated for. Current and voltage are inversely proportional. At any given wattage as the voltage goes up the current goes down. Since the capacity of an electric conductor is how much current it can carry without damage to the conductor itself or it's insulation any given size of conductor has a fixed maximum current. When you raise the voltage applied to that current it can carry more power, in watts, than it could at a lower voltage. The only place the voltage conversion costs of DC current is less is on transmission lines that are carrying current a long distance to a single point of use or conversion to AC. If the transmission line in question is part of a grid which has power drawn from it at multiple locations the conversion costs at multiple points is less for AC than it is for DC.
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Tom Horne
Love your channel! Our home burned during the Northern California fires that wiped the town of Paradise off the map. My wife and I bought a piece of land to rebuild our lives. We've just started a YT channel to share our progress. We have 4 creeks and two springs on our property and plenty of elevation change. We are trying to learn everything we can about micro-hydro so that we make the right choices but also to get power soon. Your content has been really helpful!
I am very sad that your house burnt in jungle fire ..please do not worry about with in few days i will patent my technology of raising water upto more than 10 meters high into water tank without the help of any electric water pump . As soon as my patent is successful i will allow you to make electricity not only for your own house but you can supply electricity to your neighbours and earn profit according to your country's law .
Please keep in touch with me
Thanks
2:45 mount... attempt to mount...
Just like me on every side project.
Thanks for the video btw
Use a step up transfer to decrease loss due to distance form generation and consumption point. Also you can use it as AC no needs to convert into DC by simply installing a governor or feedback system which will control the flow rate according to the load.
I want one been thinking about powering in this manner too! Along side with solar, micro wind turbines and wood burning in a mass rocket stove!
That gets an A+ on the CoolAssShitOMeter!!! I wish I had a stream running down the side of my house.
To get the extra volt, try maximizing the difference in height of the water intake and the output into the turgo wheel. You're working with the specific weight of water. So its all about the height to increase pressure at the nozzle. I have solar panels and your system is way more cool.
speaking of alternative energy, can anybody help me hook up electrical from my neighbors house ?
lol It shouldn't be too difficult. I've seen some pretty big power strips at Home Depot. Be sure to only buy appliances with green power cords, so they'll be camouflaged in the grass.
Haha
Idk whether to call u guys in the comment good or evil
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Ask any lad from the City of Liverpool England (scouse feckers) they will send you out instructions for exactly how to go about it.
Those hoses feeding the turbine need some support. The connections to the nozzles are bearing the load and asking for failure soon. The sluice system needs some TLC. Other than that it's a good start and proves the function. Thanks for posting.
24v system with multiple 250 feet cable runs ?? That's a lot of wasted power. with 10 amps running through 250' of 12 awg you re loosing almost 40% of your power, that's huge. Either the info you give about distances and voltage are incorrect or you are wasting your power away to nothing. You need either a single three phase step up transformer or three single phase transformers at the source and step that voltage up and drop the current. Or perhaps an alternator that puts out a higher voltage like 2 or 3 hundred volts.
Well it looks like the 250' of wire is all AC. Hes not rectifying it till it hits the house. You can see him doin that at around 5:40 . So it should be fine to run AC with that length.
hello, it's not whether it is dc or ac it is the voltage and the resistance of the wire. example; if you have a 12v 100-watt light bulb which draws 8.3 amps (100/12=8.3 amps) running close to your power source, the majority of the power being used will make it to your bulb. Now if you want to move that bulb, say 250 feet away from the source, and you use 14ga wire, which has a dc resistance 2.5 ohms per 1000 feet you'll now only have a 15 watt light bulb loosing roughly 85% of your power to wire losses. 250 feet of wire times 2, because you need 2 conductors, is 500 feet wire. So you'll have 1.25 ohms of resistance in the wire and that times the current of 8.3 amps is over 10 volts of drop across the wire leaving less than 2 volts for your bulb. This is the same for 12v rms ac more or less. Now ac is more attractive because you can step up the voltage and greatly reduce your losses with a simple transformer. That same 100-watt light bulb but a 220 volt version draws only 450 milliamps at 220v. now you'll only lose 570 millivolts (.45*1.25=.57) with 14ga wire. Which is about a 1/4 of watt of wire loss versus 80+ watts.
It looks like he was saying he was using 10AWG 3wire for 300 feet and was running at 48 volts no load. Under load something like this might run about 300W max which at around 48 volts is only 6 amps. On 10 AWG at 300 feet you can expect about a 3v drop for 6 amps of draw which is only about 6.5%.
My last post was only for demonstration purpose of voltage drop. The 48v he speaks of in the video is open circuit voltage. With no load, there is no voltage drop. cheers
Thad ward bull shit. dc is not ac and it does matter for voltage drop if its one or the other
Really nice wheel I can't believe how efficiently it revved up to speed with 11 PSI.
300 FT is a long way for 50 Volts 3 Ph at I'm guessing around like 5-10 amps.
I suffer from a touch of Megalomania so my first thought would be switch and step up the 3 Ph 50 V to around 500 V for the 300' and then step it down at it's end point (just like a transmission line). All boils down to losses. Which would lose less would be a fun day for me to figure out.. Love these systems I'd say it's everyone's dream to cut the light bill and carbon footprint. Great vid, thanks.
4:10 he pushes it through a rectifier, so he ends up with ~50V DC eliminating inductive losses (skin effect, line capacitance, etc.)
Calculating losses using a generous 10 AWG wire, and assuming "10,000 watts of power per day" means "10kWh of energy per day", 416Wh (per hour, negate hours for 416W), 8.3A, gives us a voltage drop of almost 20V, or 40% of the power spent heating the cable.
BOOOST THAT VOLTAGE!!!
Amazing work !
2Drezik Thank you sir.
No Big Deal!! He just bought the shit!!!
I finally figured out what I am looking at. The heart of the system seems to be a flywheel from an air-cooled engine with the fan mounted on it. On the back side would be the embedded magnets that normally charge the battery via a set of stationary windings fastened below. What seems to be missing is the starter ring gear, which is not needed in this application. (that would be bolted or pressed on for an engine)
You're a genius. I was trying to figure out why the fan was there.
Rough guess is they decided to leave the fan in the design to keep the electrical end cool, seeing as that part is not actually in the water. Of course that cooling air also makes noise so I suppose it could be ducted and baffled if the extra sound level is a concern. Actually the whole thing could be enclosed in say a cement tile similar to a small septic tank, and that would kill 90% of the noise. OTOH, you'd have to make provisions for cleaning / service, which being out in the open solves. All of that "fine tuning" takes time and money so best left till after the rest of the bugs are worked out.
If its really as noisy as it appears to be. I think that is a really annoying spot to place it, 20 feet from the house. But I really like the idea, especially if you are in a location where the creek runs year long, you can have rock solid stable power all the time.
+Kenney Madsen you can mask it in anti sound barier planks ........
Put a box over it or a wall around it to muffle or redirect the sound.
Kenney Madsen the creek itself is very loud when your in a silent bush ......I've never been in the bush and it was quiet.
Thats right the sound of the stream will dround out the sound of the generator
Place it in an old refrigerator/freezer with a trap on the drain to air seal it
that sleuce box should be a water tank with over flow,,the more mass it holds would increase flow and speed,,,awesome job ive learned a lot from your vids,,,
That is wonderful and I appreciate you taking the time to share.
Wow that is so much power! And they great thing about this is that it produces power all day and night. Where as solar is only able to run when the sun is out.
That install is awesome! As always engineer775, your videos are great! Even when I run into 2 yr old videos! :) One question. Hydro systems are so loud. Have you seen people do any kind of insulation after the fact to keep the noise down? Thanks!
Walter Johnson these units are nowhere near as loud as the camera makes them to be most people have a box built for them to sit on two discharge which takes a lot of the sound away.
just working my way through your videos.
guys like you are the American dream.
keep up the good work sir
Just a question what happens if a storm comes and starts to flood the creek do u have to move it all the time or is it pretty well secured there. Love the videos keep up the good work thanks for sharing
good shit bro. angle your intake screens so water go in, debris fall off and to the downstream side, should prevent fouling
Ya, he needs to construct a ‘pool’ so water velocity at the intake is like almost nothing. The quiet water in the pool will settle stuff that can be cleaned periodically instead of the supply line having to take every piece of debris and silt that goes by.
Great job, good luck.
That's the coolest looking turbo to date. I hope you got it dialed in. Nice set up too.
Would this work using a city fire hydrant as the Water source, I think I can attach.a fire hose to the hydrant at the back of my street and the modify a hose connection to the Water turbine!
Absolutely... buuuut I don't think your city will approve of the use of their water in such a manner.
scott bleackley
Yes that is a thoroughly stupid question in so many different ways.
Looks great. You'll definitely benefit from boosting the voltage before transmitting. 200 volts or so should be a good start. I'll bet you can find a pair of transformers surplus.
couldn't I run the AC coming off that to a stand alone (off grid) breaker panel and run my AC lights and electric power strip???
the power that is produced is referred to as "wild" ac.
meaning the frequency is not constant. with a hydro system, it would be easy to get the required 60 hertz, but usually people feed the wild ac into a full wave bridge rectifier, then into a inverter, then into a breaker panel, or grid tie to back feed the commercial power. the voltage output is another issue. the system in this video is a permanent magnet alternator. ideally you would want to be able to regulate the field to help keep the voltage more stable.
Mike Shea think:
- lights flicker, or get bright then blow out.
- clocks don't keep time.
- refrigerator tries to kick on, but the power sags, the refrigerator compressor motor stalls (eventually burning out) and your computer crashes.
And other such fun. Clean, controlled power beats unregulated voltage and frequency power.
I hope I can find a property with a creek on it. I don't know how difficult permits would be, but micro hydro is definitely a great source of power.
Permits?!!
That’s hilarious. And a sure-fire way to get told ‘no’ or get more government interfering in your life me thinks.
This is brilliant. GREAT work on this hydro system. I would like to know what the continuous DC current (for a 24v battery bank) is after rectification and going through a charge controller. My best guess (and reading the comments below) it looks like about 15 amps of continuous charge current. Am I wrong? I want one! Or four. I salute you man...sexy stuff you got going on.
This unit running at 11 PSI 260 watt @ 24 volts 10.4 amps if you would like to order you can call Spencer Langston at 843 319 4830
This gets a thumbs up not only for the good information, but also for the speech to text misses. Hilarious. “Turd Cargo”
HOW MANY HOURS TILL YOU HAVE TO CHANGE YOUR MAIN BEARING ?
local power company will not be happy , you are generating clean energy off the grid , good set up congrats.
Thanks
have you consider this also , lots of problems solved waterotor.com/
such a small turbine.... with that much psi, you could've gone way bigger than that.. no?
Exactly my thought. The turbine is very anemic for that kind of pressure and flow. He's at about 20% of what he can produce with a good turbine, a lot less than that compared to a multi-stage turbine.
i think if he had bigger turbine he could have directly utilize produced electricity without the help of batteries
ya lol - he's gonna blow that lil turd up!
This is exactly why the best site to build a lake is a bench on a mountainside to generate power at least once from the effluent.
SAY TURGO ONE MORE TIME.....
or Tur-Bin instead of Tur-bine
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turgo turbin :) Couldn't resist
TURGO!
66blacksunshine turgo...
Those subtitles are hysterical.
Is it actually rain-proof because I'm doubtful
Milo B Why would your doubt make it rainproof?
@@JS-qg1ie Hahaha I don't remember, probably because the actual generator isn't contained I imagine it's because the windings look like they're open to the air.
Great video thanks, I feel more confident after watching this video to go ahead with this.
That looks like fun.
cool beans ! You could up your water velocity by using a larger splitter width , and narrow it down just a little more gradually.
What part of the country is this and does it work in the winter or will it freeze up?
+Marc water flowing that fast continuously needs EXETREMELY cold temperatures to actually freeze, if your creek doesn't freeze over during the winter I doubt this would freeze over.
That mist will freeze things over real quick though!
a Good flowing creek will freeze along the edges but not so much in the middle. If it does pool in a spot.. only the top would freeze over while allowing water to flow under the ice.
If it did try and freeze then right there is a power supply. Get a heater lol. Nothing goes together like electric heaters and water spray lol.
He's in the mountains of Virginia, that thing will freeze solid and crack seams. I'd be more worried about no protection on that plastic upper fan assembly, one stick falls into it from a tree and that thing is shattering blades and then off-balance, quick bearing damage, wear on the drive shaft and its soon a $950 creek ornament.
With all that above ground water piping through your system I hope you don't live someplace with cold winters...
Otherwise pretty cool, I'm currently helping my folks with some off the grid setup and this video popped. Always cool to watch how other people are doing it.
That thing is noisy. Is there a way to use sound deadening material?
Yea if you do some minor fabricating and engineering you can have a super nice silent setup
they have better and quieter micro-pico generators that put out in excess of 1.2kwh in 3rd world countries than this noisy open contraption. with that amount of flow you could run a much larger rig than this, or several smaller high output generators.
I have worked in a project and the size ranging from 15 kW to 800kW but this pico size is most useful at household level
produce 10,000 watts of power a day ?????
I hope you are referring to 10,000 Wh (10 kWh) of Energy per day.
Great video. Hats off to you.. I just started a solar setup with mppt and got an idea.. why am I not using the hydro power from my discharge line to my pool.. hummmm
That would use / need power from somewhere. Or maybe I’m not understanding? You can’t ‘make’ power from something that takes power to run. Minus the inefficiencies and you’ll net less power than you started with.
@@fishhuntadventure old comment but I was thinking if the pool's already running and you have a discharge line could you not offshoot some of that discharge into a peloton.
what's a imaginary so butifully
Thank you!
Would it be wrong disclosing your location. Your land is very unique.
I have been mindlessly sitting 400' from a tremendous spring fed lake with a concrete spillway that runs ample amounts of water 365 days a year since 1976. For my life I can't understand why I am just now seriously planning my hydro electric set up. I hope there is enough time before our power grid is attacked or sabotaged by our own government for the premise of Marshall Law.
+Stephen Box Langston's Alternatiive Power 843 319 4830 Spencer Langston
Doesn't matter any ways, they'll just out law private energy on a pretence its harming the environment.
+Stephen Box Martial Law
zombie apolypse coming your ways boys. Git on ur tin foil hats
training against the zombies was a real thing in the military budget
hint zombie is code for civilian (the generally act the same when you think about it)
I enjoy watching your videos and I'm just learning about micro hydro generators, so good timing on this video. I'm not a prepper myself but after watching videos from a bunch of folks claiming to be preppers I'm left with a question I hope you can answer for me. Why are they always telling us they are at "an undisclosed location"? I mean why not just not say anything? We already don't know where they are. Thanks and please keep the videos coming they are very informative and useful.
haynerbass Cuz this is Merika! And most of us are dummer than all git out. Lol
There isn't a font size large enough for the "HAR!" that I think is appropriate to your response. I just read it to my girlfriend and we're both laughing. I was born in the states and grew up in Canada and I have had some dumb ass questions from both sides of the border. Thanks again and keep up the good work.
Now that's what a real engineer looks like....!!! Woo
That's really good considering you are not using pure water in a laboratory and also the voltage drop (not sure how far your run is or gauge or wire material - copper? - aluminum? - strands? - solid?) and the conversion to DC. Also, the sluice material and rocks aren't exactly space age design. LOL. I wonder if you had one sluice per inlet and if the sluices were at a steep downwad angle rather than level, what the difference would be.
bhai. this is good stuff... this video is three years old... hope you have made much progress in the years since... much more power to you!!! and off the grid too!! :-)
Great to see that Avasva has new instructions to save my money and energy to build it.
So, solar panels collect dust and unless a robust sheet of acrylic/plexi is over it, hail may damage it, but those can be mitigated. Your turbo has bearings, and streams have debris. You have to clean the intake and keep debris out of the turbine. How often do you have to do that compared to dusting a solar panel? To quote Montgomery Scott, "The more they overthink the plumbing, the easier it is to stop up the drain.
You can always use a boost converter to step your voltage up if needed
My parents are retired, but my father is a carpenter and a boilermaker and he loves to tinker. I've been urging him to look into solar (PV), small wind turbines and maybe even hydro. (There are a couple of streams near the house, but they are less than half the size of the one in this video) But we have no idea who to talk to or where to start. We don't even know who to look for. My parents' home is in the hills of northern PA.
You might be able to use the air entrained in the stream to lift the water to a higher elevation holding tank. You could also provide a wind turbine to force air into the lift system to add even more lift. The holding tank would have a bottom drain valve to have a greater percentage of water throughput/flow into the water turbine system. The entrained air from the stream will dissipate as the holding tank level increases. The air entrainment/lift system is a takeoff from an airlift system used in the oilfield industry to lift the oil and water emulsions from the reservoir to the topside for separation.
Another thing you will need to consider is a secondary system as over time I expect scale deposits to build up in the tubing and possible the turbine. This will reduce efficiency. The secondary system will allow nearly continuous power generation during the de-scaling process. By the way all scale is not created equal, so the same cleaning process may differ over time. A prevent mindset will take periodic samples throughout the year for water analysis before you get to the point of shutting down for de-scaling. The de-scaling process may require chemical treatment. Introduction of chemicals into natural resources may affect aquatic and human health downstream. The consequences would probably precipitate fines and/or imprisonment. Hence, the prudent course of action is to separate the chemical treatment process from the natural resources. Also, don't forget about legal permits for disruption of natural resource environments. All the money you may be saving could be swallowed by subsequent liability for cause of action.
Just some things to think about.
Wow, you have plenty of flow.. the best system i seen that wasn't some outrageously priced setup was on gridlessness. They checked out a guys system that was making too much power. He had a dishwasher, and everything else you would find in a on grid home. He used the extra power to run a hot water heater and he would have to occasionally dump the hot water just to use the power he was making. He diverted part of a stream into a timber box that looked to be 6 or 7 feet deep by 6'x8'. He could close the water intake and then open up a clean out once a year to get rid of the sediment. He had a foot x 3ft screened outlet a foot off the bottom.. system was cool and he wasn't dumping sediment in the stream. He had a holding pond and I'm sure he used the rich sediment for his garden
low voltage transmission is an issue of high loss ,you need high voltage alternator or generator over 380vac better and good cable thickness before rectifying ,as well it was obvious you can raise the slope of pipe or make the trip of falling water longer little bit it collect momentum and for sure more impact torque .
Damn this is a smart product. Thanks for the inspiration to design and build my own product.
You did great . I hope smone will make the Tour go himself as DIY and post a video of that.
This is simply awesome! I wonder...
Is there a way to lessen or dampen the noise?
Also, what is a ballpark figure for a setup like this? Just getting it to the solar system, not the solar components and batteries. Thanks
I like the turbine, simple and robust!
I think you have to make the water supply and box for water exit with concrete and the piping partially underground (not obvious with rocks), because sooner or later a flood will wash everything away
Thank you for bringing us this very interesting and informative video. It is much appreciated by the people.
Use mesh on the intake and an air pipe a few meters down to let the air out. (Basically a t piece that goes up in the air higher than the head.)
Lizard King that will actually suck air in like a Venturi.
amazing, fantastic stuff - keep it up... freedom is only a thought away.
Damn, that's a hell of a set up
You have voltage drop on account of the distance. Up your wire guage by two sizes for the distance for the transmission. You'll up voltage and current. Making it worth it.
Awesome! I have been looking for a alternative method to generate power and not relying on solar.It rains a lot where I'm from so this would be the key for all year round and most of all night time power.
Sir this is awesome project, super easy to install, congratulations
A "turbin" is a form of wrapped textile head wear commonly worn in India and the Middle East. A "TURBINE" is the thing you just mounted on a rock in a creek.
Thats very good for the rural area and I like it
24 volts over 250ft will need a large area cable to avoid volts drop. Mabe put the rectifier at the generator.
Large bore pipe taken as close as possible to the turbine gives the least flow restriction.
Enjoyed the video. Always interested in hydropower. Everything I've seen has been with the pelton wheels, this seem more efficient. Thanks for posting brother.
most needed in my part of the world, in the Karakoram mountains
you should use cone shape reducer before that valve,it will increase the pressure....
Deputy Dog, Deputy Dog, someone has connected some new fangeled contraption in the creek there.....
Build a bigger holding pond with wood and line it with pond liner.. you could be generating some serious power.. I've seen alot of people use this turbine and the one that produced the most power was called a stream engine built in Canada
This is cool, I'll check it here if this is available in my country.. great job..
Same old 2" red turned black hose at my work great choice!
Literally from 4+ years ago
Interesting project. I wonder if you swapped out the wooden sluice box for a longer-lasting plastic one, then covered everything with rocks to make it look nice. On to part 2 to find out...
You are a very cool and helpful gentleman...God bless you
CHIEF