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Wow. Amazing!

Well done, it looks great. A labour of love

Very good idea. Hydroelectric energy is simple to use and available for a lot of people. I also built a good water wheel, but in Italy there are laws that make difficulties to use water for home energy production. This is my first little video about my wheel. th-cam.com/video/Z8jSjFpmiLY/w-d-xo.html

Amazing piece of work, Les 😮❤

I’d love hydro power where are you getting the water from?

I love your idea of steam turbine....turbines are a lot simpler then piston engines...also nowdays gearbox is no problem.... efficiency is high...so you should be going strong...

Very good turbine..also i noticed outside ring which makes it aerodynamiclly stable...thnx for sharing....i trully believe turbines are way easier to build and more practical then any piston engine

Hi Les, Looking good! Take care Tony.

Amazing Les. I'm watching this from Alaska.

You need to get a electric winch fitted to the back of your garage .looks amazing.

Amazing Les, I look forward to seeing it for real sometime in the summer.

looking good !

Hello...what kind of turbine are you using? Is it single stage Laval Turbine or cetrifugal turbine? Thank you so much for posting

A "Flight of the Phoenix" moment. Gorgeous.

Atteche the gear box then joint generator 😊

Such talent and skill. Beautiful design 😉😉

I have a few question since I’m building my own. How long does it last on one tank? And what psi does it run at?

looks like so much fun, did you build it yourself?

That is a good idea

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A smoke bomb...😊😅😅

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Cute :)

What if you used a rocket booster to get it going upto speed

What an absolute work of art, great job!

nice, that shows the boilers up to it. superheater and some lagging next.

I wonder if some insulation would help it, and running the steam line to the turbine as close to the boiler as possible such that the steam stays hot instead of condensing in the pipe. Like, if the boiler and furnace had a second outer wall with either a vacuum or some insulative material in between to keep the heat in. The steam line could then be soldered to the side of the boiler as far along its length of travel as possible, or better yet run inside the furnace and boiler instead of free air. Taller smoke stacks may improve the rate at which air is drawn through the furnace, improving the rate at which the fuel is burned. If you want to get really efficent with your furnace, you want a funnel which is narrow at the furnace and expands gradually as it rises. This would generate a significant pressure gradiant due to the rising heat, the narrow base would give you a higher velocity and low pressure at that point, further drawing air through the firebox. Are you using a fan, or a blower? Electronics suppliers sell cheap blower fans in PC fan sizes. There is a big difference across fan and blower designs which effect their ability to diliver airflow or pressure. I believe you want pressure differential instead of airflow, and a pusher design instead of puller. You may be able to find a fan/blower that moves multiple times the air volume for the same power draw if you havent optimized this yet. I believe that the turbine would perform better in free air as it is. My limited engineering experience tells me that the efficiency of a heat engine is the ratio of the hot side to the cold side,. So, you want the maximum amount of heat possible entering the turbine, and expanding as close as you can get to ambient temperature. Without a close up of the turbine design, Im not sure if it is only using steam pressure or velocity from a nozzle. There may be some potential gained by allowing ambient air into the system somehow. Cool air will expand when heated to several hundred degrees. Not as much as water/steam does because of the phase change, but still a lot. Jet engines, piston gasoline engines, firearms, and other internal combustion engines rely on the heat of the combustion expanding the volume/pressure of the air inside the combustion chamber, rather than vaporization like an external combustion steam engine. Im not sure what the ratio is for atmospheric air.

Congrats! So cool!

Awesome!! Definitely build a steam blower in the smokebox to help with the draft, and I think a proper regulator would help a lot, since you can close it to build pressure while steaming up. Awesome project, keep it up!

you should make video s faster

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Wow... Awesome

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it is not clear whether the configuration of the alternator is significantly less-than optimal. it is not clear whether the output circuit is correctly configured. for one thing, there should be no capacitance in the output circuit. 1:44 totally NOT informative. i have alternator design facts, if you want them. d

powering LEDs, or anything else, is NOT informative.

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That's really impressive Les.

What, if any, is the advantage of this ?

Wowww good

there are some major challenges, to using a stream/river for hydropower. discussion: an undershot 'wheel is the least efficient type.! if an undershot 'wheel has to be used, the 'wheel's Radius and the bucket Width Should be as Great as is practical. if an undershot poncelet 'wheel is to be used, SOME flow controlling structure is Needed.! frequently, where a 'wheel has buckets, people do not Appreciate the Relationship between bucket Volume and flow rate. in part, because their brains focus on the side-view. in order to produce an effective overall design, it is Necessary to Know/estimate how much energy is, nominally, Available; at the intended site. regarding coil design. the use of conductor smaller than 16awg is Not recommended. the use of 14awg IS recommended. googletranslate

at 1:39, this is cogging. in manufactured machines, the end of each coil core is sometimes 'flared', so that the gaps are smaller, and cogging is reduced. look-up, gapless stator. googletranslate

Very good

You can put a air bubbels to push the water

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Nice work

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Nice 👍

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Hi Les, cool wheel!

Nice wheel Les!