Hoverboard converted to Hydroelectric Generator!

Ever wondered how much electricity can be easily pulled from a river? I find out by building a floating generator.
0:00 Introduction
1:10 Charging system
2:57 Previous versions
4:22 Gear system
4:40 Build
7:26 Conclusion

[@tonyjamieson2331]

Nice work.

[@KiwiMaker]

Thank you :)

[@sshutupurface8345]

Cool experiment always good fun making it. So 5w x 24hrs = 120w day, home power costs 30c kwh(1000w) so you'd need this to run 9 days to make 30c worth power

[@KiwiMaker]

Haha yeah power is actually really cheap when you look at making your own.

[@sshutupurface8345]

@@KiwiMaker Very true maybe our problem is we need to make stuff that uses less power instead of trying to make free power

[@sshutupurface8345]

@@KiwiMaker there's a cool vid about a stream engine pretty good power out of it for 15yrs 1.2kw i think it was using a stream and pvc pipe th-cam.com/video/XyWQ3o6plY8/w-d-xo.html

[@tajdar]

Watching this now as I'm researching different solutions for a floating hydro system that I can let loose on the huge river channel I've got in front of my land. Wondering if your experiments have more insights since this model was tested.

[@KiwiMaker]

Unfortunately for anything portable enough to fit in my car, 8 Watts was the most I could generate..
Although If you're building something on site you could do a lot better. Good luck! :)

[@eivis13]

I forget if the bench seat is held on by 4 clips or 2. Either way it's fairly easy to remove it and have some extra room for the rear seats to fold down. I'm trying to make one of these motors into a hand crank generator (judging by what i already have i can get about 10-15 watts on a casual spin). Need to make a stand and do some testing to figure out what voltage and current i am getting and then maybe try and make a better three phase bridge (have some diodes for different projects and those have voltage drops under 0.4V).

[@timeisnow9855]

Hey mate have you made much progress with this? ive seen a bloke use this motor for capturing from head pressure water from a water fall... trying to track down plans

[@KiwiMaker]

It is a good motor but you do need that height drop to make it work well. Im focusing on smaller more portable generators at the moment. so using smaller motors.

[@CrazyDutch79]

@@KiwiMakermaybe u can use a 6.0L caterpillar diesel engine to spin the alternator?

[@KiwiMaker]

@@CrazyDutch79 That would work very well but I'm here to try new concepts that you can't buy at a shop.

[@CrazyDutch79]

@@KiwiMaker maybe you can copie that engine and make it from bamboo

[@abhaykedare7146]

Curved blades are much more efficient. You can refer to Robert Murray-Smith's videos. He has done a lot of research on it.