Waterwheel Returns
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- This is the resurrection of the waterwheel I built many years ago and installed at my last house. • Waterwheel Microhydro I have since dusted it off to install at my new house right next to my 500W hydro turbine. • Kilowatt Microhydro Tu...
This ditch doesn't have as much flow as my last one but it has more head, the waterwheel isn't really well suited to this lcoation. I think I might need to build a 6-footer to take advantage of the height available. This waterwheel project like many others projects in my life are ongoing. I have on order some generating components that are better suited to the lower power output expected and to remedy some of the shortcomings of this current mechanical configuration.
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In an earlier video you complained about your lack of motivation.. now I see you out in the cold rain playing with water.
I'm glad you are as motivated as you are, thank you for making these videos.
Oh boy, working with water just above freezing temps is my favorite. Lol
Great work senior. I love seeing individual’s build and design techniques. And yours are awesome!
I like his "eyeball" method of set up.
Oh man I never said "oh ffs" this many times in that short period of time. To lazy to use measuring tape or any measuring tool, but hard-working - especially with the cement blocks. Dammm
He's an intuiter lol
Nice way to spend spare time. Great project...👍👍👍
Good slow motion to see how the water pushes or katches the blades.
Electricity and water are natural energy sources. If we know how to exploit and manage them in a reasonable and sustainable way, it will be wonderful.
Good to see this again, the previous waterwheel is when I started watching.
Tinker'r extraordinar! nice morning watch.
seal the buckets up, looks like significant water leaks at base drum.
That slow-mo was very useful - wouldn't thought about water being carried on a wrong side of the paddle when it meets the wheel, especially with no load!
Yeah, I thiought the same. Maybe he should reduce the diameter of pipe over distance to gain more pressure?...
Great idea,but you should get a 5 gallon bucket of fiberglass resin on Amazon to keep your wood wheel protected, and your dam set up protected, good job
Hello from UK . You would get more power if the water fell into the wheel and not pushed it ! Make Pelton Turbine that will give you serious power.
I like how you winged it and stuck with it to make it work great job bro props
I know I'm a geek when I watch slow mo of a water wheel and feel "ahhh".
I'm right there with you🥴
Same dude same 😂
It's really wonderful. Your efforts towards success is highly appreciated.
May I make a suggestion?
Maybe heat the end of the pvc pipe, about a foot in length, and squash it to widen it to
spread the flow across the paddle of the wheel to eliminate the splash back as the water enters the scoop?
I'm just a bit concerned about ice build up on the chain from the
splashing is why i suggest to widen the pipe a bit, not squash it totally flat! LOL
I'm switching to a timing belt of sorts, and I'll guard it if ice is an issue.
I wouldn't flatten the pipe (a flattened pipe actually carries less volume), as much as just make a Louvre or fender to force the water DOWN and into the paddles (sorta like the orange thing in very beginning of vid, but upside down and curved down).
Then I would move the wheel center just slightly behind the end of the pipe (so the pipe overhangs the wheel center). This will ensure that gravity AND the lateral speed of the water have maximum effect on the edge of the wheel, and the Louvre/fender should allow any high flow (from rain, snow melt, etc) without restricting flow or wasting the extra lateral motion of extra volume of water shooting past the wheel.
Overhanging the pipe past the wheel center will ensure that the wheel still gets the most power during low water flow, where gravity will do more work than the speed of the water.
@@tyrzxv don't think he cares based off his reply
@9:48 Flow dynamics. Your wheel is being turned by the speed/force of the water as it discharges from the pipe onto the blades of your wheel. If you were to spread/distribute the water evenly across the width of your blades, it would be the weight of the the water inside each blade that turns the wheel. Just a thought.
Yep
yes, or make little cups instead of the pipe fins
That would improve the speed you think?
i like this video because it shows how something is done in real life meaning with faults and trying to fix it alone without any help and only due to learning by doing.
Trial and error is one of the best ways to learn IMO.
Я 11 лет назад такую идею хотел воплотить в реальность), для диодного освещения небольшого свинарника)). Но мне не разрешили строить в водоохранной зоне... Спасибо за видео))
Если вы не можете сделать это с помощью энергии воды, вы можете сделать это с помощью энергии ветра.
PLEASE MORE!! THESE VIDEOS ARE AMAZING AND NEED TO BE WATCHED. YOU DESERVE MORE FAME, DUDE!!!!!!!!
If I was there, I would definitely help to move things. keep the spirit friends and keep working
DICEN que hasta ahora el *gordito sigue acomodando su maquinaria , sus BLOCKS y su manguera!!*
Loved the video, my freind has a stream going throught his property and i am going to have a project this summer, only changes i will make is to generate AC at the source to reduce transmission losses and problems with water and electronics, and then rectify it 50 meters away in his dry shed, ill use a PLC to monitor and to charge controll the battery banks. but its lovelly to see that free energy beeing used all over the world. Using our intelegence to tap into it. I notice you have a elevated watersource, you could dam it and use preassure in a turbine or water wheel as well. Although i like the esthetics of a wooden water wheel more. Good luck with all you do.
Génial ! Pour ne pas que les croisillons s écartent avec le poids des tuyaux, mettez une corde sur les 2 bouts de bois en haut
I like where this is going
Round and round
@@jamess1787 I was thinking downhill quickly.
@@BRPEngineering No downhill quickly is the hose to the micro hydro.
Me too...
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So many questions so few explanations. Is the water source a spring? Home irrigation system? Constant flow? Limited to rain cycles? Wood rot worries? Could one use gears for a solar powered water pump from a farm pound to power a water wheel that produces more than the pump could consume and the gear it for upscaled power generation?
Literally was just thinking hey wonder how it’s going and pops up on my recommendations 😳
I suspect you are loosing some watts with water falling too backward in the turbine. try mooving the mill just a bit forward :-)
I Think the Water is hitting the wheel at the wrong point. THE Wheel is Naturally Trying to Reverse.
Move the wheel back to have the flow hitting the wheel at the 11:00 o'clock point ?
Or at least Just over & beyond the upper center point of the wheel.
The water looks to be pushing the wheel UP HILL here.
The water must push the wheel in a Downwards motion. = Extend the blue pipe by 4 to 6 inches ? To Gain more speed & power from the flow.
You could also Test / Trial this idea, Make the end of the pipe graduate to a smaller outlet hole to increase the water pressure. ( but this may also Decrease the flow slightly ? )
I like your Set up. Hence i offer advice & ideas to try.
I think you can get more power out of your water head if you extend your pipe slightly over the wheel so that the water falls a few inches before contacting the wheel. You might try an adjustable length slip pipe that you can tune the point that the water exits the pipe.
Yes, move water contact to wheel center or past. Load the buckets across the wheel's width by tee and short nipples vented across their bottom.
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RPM shown is 12-15 using 40% of a 4 inch supply, cold start requires 2 buckets to load (about 75 gallon).
Congratulations Joe! greetings from Brazil
А если бы у меня на участке ручей протекал, я бы выкопал пруд и выращивал форель.А так конечно круто, бесплатная энергия.
Love your waterwheel, but why do you not move the water flow away from where you are working? Then you can make a firm base for your wheel.
Also a level would be really useful, to keep a fall on the blue feed pipe. Well done though, I recon you will have a good result!
Need the water to fall father forward, will improve speed of wheel. It's hitting on top.
After such a long time your waterwheel is back to business! This once was the reason to subscribe to your channel. Nice to see it working again.
Yes, the waterwheel was the reason I also subscribed. What a time to be alive, such content is free for us to consume on demand.
Wow you can generate thunder with this wheel
Yay, the waterwheel is back (and darn my computer for having an issue with TH-cam so I missed the release of the video) looking forward to seeing both the wheel and the turbine making you power, soon you should be able to supply your neighbors energy needs too (lol)
If you make a really big wheel, balancing it will be fun. But even more fun would be painting a spiral on the side to entrance anyone who looks at it :D
You can use the bases from 2 of those rotating office chairs on wheels. They have 5 arms and a nice bearing housing perfectly in the center. You can then run your axle through the centers of the bases. Because the arms are all the same exact length, you can connect them to the two outer wheel forms quite precisely and it results in a well balanced wheel.
@@nickkitchener6155 That's a good idea. But my concern is the weight balance: even if the wheel is perfected centered, the weight may not be due to material factors like varying density in the wood. It needs to be fairly evenly balanced to not have a variation in speed as the wheel rotates; a variation in speed would produce a large-scale ripple in the voltage that may confuse an MPPT charge controller.
@@MarkRose1337 Simply add a capacitor of a decent rating and it should solve that.
I love the trial and error mentality. Nice work.
I like your wheel but you really should be using a non brushed PMA for you generator. You would probably get 30% higher power and endless dependability.
The the world economy continues to deteriorate, we are going to see more and more of this. People making power from what's a hand, living in trucks, cars and sheds. Great to be ahead of the game. You never know what the weather or other factors will bring.
Yay! The waterwheel was my favorite! Super excited to see it return.
Very satisfying to watch. If you build it, they well flow.
Find an old balance/hoverboard and use one of the wheels as they make good brushless generators usually can pick them up for free or really cheap as the batteries die because balance charge board gives up sometimes the cells are still good good to see you back at it
You could also use a reworked fisher & paykal washing machine smart drive motor. That can generate a bunch of power.
Q povo nada,o povo ja foi as ruas varias veses e dia 7 a maior e o presidente nao agiu foi fala com o inimigo ai fica dificel pra nos
Love the old water wheels, fascinating somehow watching them do their thing.
Wish I had a stream near me to play with.
Might have to put that on the list for the next house move lol
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I know its been 7 months but if you have the property, and slightly hilly land you could always make yourself a nice sized pond that creates a small stream
Is the pipe underground going up somewhere? Why does the water in the blue pipe flow upwards?
In other words, does the stream come to you from the mountain through a closed pipe, the beginning of which is higher than your wheel?
Good job. I love seeing the old water wheel again. Now go do something about that mullet !
That's not even close to a Mullet....
Отлично 👍. В кончику трубу отвод надо на 45%. На генератору побольше звездочку нужен. Слищком тежело крутится.
Those cross pieces will Move as they settle and weather.
Those cross pieces didn't last a week. They have since been replaced (video to come eventually)
If that is on a hillside you could have 4 or 5 of them in a row all using the same power. The Romans built some in series down the side of a steep hill.
It's good to look at, but highly inefficient, pelton wheel with a variable nozzle would be a lot more efficient
Not enough head pressure. Pelton wheels need a lot of velocity and pressure to work.
Bigger wheel = bigger pockets for water = more torque = able to handle a good gearing system = way more power. The power you get from water wheels is less about the motion of the water and more about the weight and harnessing gravity. The higher you can get the water the more potential energy it has
you could try gluing magnets to the flywheel and have a bunch of coils spaced around the flywheel. it looks like you water pipe is higher at the end than the beginning.
The most real, meaningful things are right there in nature just waiting for ingenuity like yours to appreciate it. Nice work!
Boo foken nature is fekin rubish its forests not makin us any money
i apologize for my immaturity
it's wooden, I wouldn't worry about rough edges, haha! awesome video! thanks for sharing!
My house backs up to the St Joseph river in Northern Indiana. What kind of setup can I use to harvest energy?
A would have been helpful. I'm surprised how much power you got from so little water and so short a fall. I forget how heavy it is.
The beauty of free energy.
The happy of money free energy !
از این پتانسیل جهت چرخاندن توربین آبی فکر بسیار خوبی است
فکر دیگر اینکه فشار مطلق بالای تانک را بایستی اندازه گیری کرد و از وکیوم آن جهت پایین آوردن نقطه جوش مایعات استفاده کرد مثلاً برای رب گوجه در روستاها
امیدوارم فکرها در جهت بهتر کردن زندگی روستاها باشد
Unfortunately you don't have always that water flow right? I'm considering building a water wheel or a small peltom wheel, which one would you recommend? I live off grid and could leave the batteries charging there and exchange them when they're full. Thanks!! Great project
Not an entirely dumb question, i don't think so anyways. Could you not string together multiple of these in a row or multiple of the same thing just using ''leftover''/waste water by this thing? Obviously the height or some ammount of flow from a height different is a factor, but the water collected, then back into another wheel?
Yes you can. A larger waterwheel of a reasonable size is more efficient than multiple small waterfalls in a cascade. For example I want to build a 6ft wheel in this site.
I think back and forth placement of water wheel must be adjusted in order to achieve maximum power point, moreover shape of turbine blades be changed from quarter of a pipe to half of a pipe because this would increase amount of water weight held in them and consequently increase overall power
ok p no
I really like this idea how would i get it to power up a battery.
Glad to see that the chooks are supervising the project
enjoyed the video, only thing i was hoping to see was a amp/volt of what it was generating. keep it up.
I Think you need a Flywheel
Elle tourne super bien
I love to tinker with things like this unfortunately I don’t have a small controllable stream all I have is a huge wild creak that fluctuates up to 20 foot
Thanks for doing this, enjoyable, thought provoking.
Interesting. Looking forward to seeing what kind of amps and voltage you can draw from it.
Turn it around undetshot wheel works much better get some morter and bond the bricks togther . try a slash cut on the pipe about 2 30 this way more water above to balance the spin consider a flywheel on the ends both sides
Love it. Keep on keeping on. Love how you leave the real lifeness of it in there.
I don't know what the goal is. Kill-time? Because then he succeeded. Water + movement, I like it.
Thanks!
Our homestead is off grid. I am starting to think about ways to add hydro electric to assist our solar in the winter. What system do you like more? Turbine or water wheel?
what I recommend is based on the water source, flow rate, and head height
You've done a good set up but positioning the wheel under the pipe would make a great deal of difference as far as efficiency goes. More efficiency more electric produced, good luck.
great work! I wonder if we can calculate the load the generator is putting on the wheel based on the amount of water in the cups as it rotates around? There was a significant difference between unloaded and loaded.
Thank you 😆 from Singapore Toa Payoh Town 👍
l'angle d'attaque de l'eau sur les godets... Génial!
With the wheel turned around, the paddles catch more water giving the wheel more torque?
wrong
@@popovichvondesastre ok. Thanks for clarifying.
I wanna build one of these! 😱😁👍👍🇺🇲
Excelente ângulo nós caixilhos! Parabéns, ótimo vídeo!
that is great, but do you think maybe after time the waste water will modify the ground of which the blocks are sitting in and misalign the wheel? Maybe build a runoff pipe or channel
no more than if the waterwheel werent there.
Beh... Complimenti che dire sei bravissimo hai mostrato che intelligenza non è un pignone, e la tua semplicità mostra quanto ci vuole preparare un alimentazione a 220v importante e avere le regole base per soddisfare minimo indispensabile grazie per aver condiviso il tuo lavoro aspetto le tue novità a presto. Greetings from Italy.
Very cool. I’m sorry, but I chuckled a little bit when you were putting the legs under your pipe and it fell down. It just sorta struck me funny. Great video man
Affaire pour la maison 😉😉😉😇😇😇😇 merci pour votre idée
his kids will tell their kids.. look how our father was charging phone in 2020.
I forgot what the estimated potential power of the water was, but I definitely remember figuring well over half the power was going into swinging those chains about. Very excited to see the next steps.
With any luck the chains will be gone
Chains wouldn't rob much power as long as they were well lubricated. I mean, bicycles have been using them a long time and if they were robbing lots of power then bicycles would all have driveshafts. As many people have mentioned, moving the water flow slightly further forward would remove the power loss from back of the blades hitting the water and the associated power loss. The other advantage would be the auto start ability. Even a small water flow would get the wheel turning the correct direction.
I didn't see anyone mention but if there is room to lower the wheel without it fouling on the exiting water then that would give several inches more water drop. Greatly increasing the energy of the water entering the wheel. The only other thing would be the stability of the installation which I imagine will be addressed once proof of concept is over. Any wobble in the framework will translate into slight power loss.
And one final thought, treat yourself to some wet weather gear. Much more fun playing in the rain with dry feet. :)
Daca inversati roata aveti mai mare randament la rotatii ,deoarece apa nu vine cu forta mare
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Wow.. Mr joe. Mantap bisa naik ke atas airnya ya
If you want something besides a playboy you must have a pipe like that full of water with around 100ft of drop. Then spray it on a Pelton wheel though 1/2" nozzles. Then you can turn a 100 Amp alternator to either charge batteries or use an inverter to power your house. With as much water as you have there with 100ft drop makes the water pressure around 50psi which I'll easily spin that alternator at 2200 rpm which would power your house even the water heater and clothes dryer.
Here in Scotland water isn't metered, it's free from the tap. I've often wondered if i could get "free" electricity from running the tap/s!
I really depends on the pressure and how high you can get the water up. The volume would be something as well. You either need very high pressure or very high flow with low pressure. You might make 100 watts. Yet you also have to consider where you will be dumping all of this water.
William Glaser, well he's finished with the water at that point so I'm guessing his neighbor will enjoy the new stream. 🤡
@@brwpe7733 Flood his yard good!
Is this worth even pursuing? That can't be more than 10W.... is this a proof of concept project or do you actually have a larger source of water flowing on your property?
Nice water wheel
nice
How are you making energy?
I am happy the wheel is back!
very good. What is that generator used please?
Hey love the Teal Color themed but also consider building a treehouse over just a house that tears down the forest. Trees should be building blocks no tearing blocks. It can be funky and swirlyio just needs a bit of adjusting imagination and blueprinting and there we go and inventive you might get more followers because your not just helping humanity but your helping the World. We are not only making channels grow but It inspire others to experiment and TH-cam Channels will grow when we choose to help the world 2 ways in one stone. Building a tree house and putting gardens in it. It can maybe make new species
DEFINATELY i'm seeing Some Self Resistance & Back Push on that Wheel. It will Work far better with Adjustments to Where the water hits the wheel.
Good