All about weight to drive shaft ratio. As heavy as that wheel looks I doubt you will have any problem generating ample electricity for a camper! Awesome good. Thank You for sharing.
Hi Brian. I really liked your water wheel and power generation projects. Very cool. I live in São Paulo in Brazil and here we have incredible hydraulic potential because we have several rivers. Although most of the power generation here in Brazil is from hydroelectric plants (approximately 85%). I also have a channel that I have several small-scale projects. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and experiences. I'm sorry for my very bad English 😩😩. Hugs and much success in the projects.
And by the way I am a general engineering contractor and have operated a cabinet and furniture manufactory for too many years. Western Hemlock is considered trash wood in most circles and will compost itself in short time. Redwood, sugar pine, locust, white oak, will last many times longer. Western Hemolck is used for kiln dried cheap studs at home depo, and as pre-primed fascia and trim. And that just prolongs the deterioration a bit. Yeah, I know, the wood was free, and its mostly for fun. You mention a culvert with a 20' drop. put a 19' wheel there with Fitz buckets and now you can light the whole house.
thanks for posting. nice work. some thoughts...by using such a large pulley, the ratio of mechanical advantage present is very low. ( divide wheel radius by pulley radius; the wheel should have an advantage of at least two.) in a relatively low-speed configuration, a low-cogging pma ( stator connected wye) should work. cheers
WOW, that thing FLIES! The "breast" is really catchy, can almost dance to that beat, lol. But it's messy, water flying everywhere and would probably jam if sticks floated into the chute. The undershot would be best. Very nice job! Get you a couple of alternators wired for generating power and you could run a fridge and window A/C on that thing, lol.
The drive wheel to a smaller pulley turning much faster was a good idea in principal but the smaller faster pulley is too close to the water to be connected to a generator pair of automotive alternators, they would get wet and short out. What needs to be done is a drive shaft needs to extend further up the bank away from the water where a heavier fly-wheel can be attached as a drive wheel to power a generator or a series of automotive alternators to produce the desired electrical power with this water wheel.
thanks for posting. some facts. the leverage present in the wheel captures the maximum amount of energy present in a limited volume of falling water. energy/torque is concentrated at the center of rotation, the shaft. the use of a large output pulley is throwing energy away. first stage of output will need to be chain and sprocket, to avoid belt slippage. to keep the radius of the output sprocket small, first stage step-up should be 1 to 3. the current installation does not make use of all available head. wrong, wrong. this should be an overshot wheel, mounted one foot lower. this is a guess. the radius of the wheel should be just above the tailwater. water should be entering the buckets at about 'ten o'clock'. cheers
What I would like to know is, what are the torque differences between the two flow setups. As anyone that has ever used a hydroelectric generator knows, when you add a magnetic induction generator and add an electric load instead of just freespinning like this, the wheel slows down and loses momentum. I imagine he tried undershot to make it more quiet, but I bet having full buckets higher up the wheel will provide more gravitational energy and more torque to maintain higher electric loads....
Your very correct, farm where I grew up we had our own electricity including a saw mill that ran off a pelting wheel, Dad said maximum torque was at 60%. I don't have enough fall to have an over shot wheel. could if I had pipe and moved the wheel farther down stream.
I like the wheel ... But I think that the water needs to fall at higher point and that its to close because of noise it makes ... But all in all great job..
Hi Brian: Thank You for the great video. I like your water wheel! I also love that wooden pulley. I need to learn how to make both the wheel and pulley. If You go outside and it's gone, And I have one that looks exactly like yours. It's just a coincidence. LOL! Again Thank You.
Brian, did you ever think of making the penstock adjustable on angle so that the water could enter the wheel at less than a 90° angle? Say aim it in at about 15° down angle to get the water into the wheel without the paddles slapping it.
Like it setup and the property, though I have one minor gripe. The paddles slapping the water as it comes down are not doing you a favor. Ideally you would like the water to flow quietly and smoothly into the buckets to minimize the loss of it pushing the water back as it makes way for the next bucket. That said it really only makes a difference if you are trying to pull energy from it. Or maybe you find it more entertaining as a drum machine. More power to you. Either way, fine craftsmanship. Absolutely beautiful. I am curious of one thing. Does it ever flood the whole area such that the dam and potentially the wheel are under water?
It was fun to build just for the looks and the sound, when I built it I did want to try and make 12 volt electricity, being I didn't have enough fall for a overshot wheel, the next best thing was a breast wheel, I was surprised by the slapping of the water by the paddles. with that type of wheel I do not think it can be avoided, Only solution is the overshot wheel and the undershot wheel. The curved surface under the wheel in the breast wheel captures the water underneath where it would be ejected in the overshot wheel. Slapping is the price you have to pay for using that type of wheel. I take the wheel out every year and last year a beaver dam broke above and flooded to the top of the dam, wheel wasn't in at that time.
Brian Procter Well, if you ever pursued power generation or maybe less noise, the undershot wheel isn't all that bad of an idea. Breast and overshot are gravity type wheels, whereas the undershot is an impulse wheel where it primarily makes power off the impact of the water against the bucket. I honestly have no idea which may be better under the circumstances, though it could be calculated with a few measurements. Kinda curious about the dam as well. Looks like wood with concrete supports, or maybe the other way around. I have to say, I'm still amazed by the craftsmanship of the wheel. Done in a little shop, no CNC or the like, and its not purely utilitarian in that it's nice to look at as well. You must have quite the wood working shop. If you take a fancy to generation, a GM 1 wire alternator is not a bad choice for a quick and simple setup. Just about any auto parts store carries them. The only negative is they like a certain rpm range, and the voltage is set so there's no real regulation beyond that so it's possible to overcharge. But literally a wire from the positive and negative terminals is all that's needed. Quite popular with hot rods and old vehicles.
The most self evident [should be] error in all wooden water wheels that I see is for the main wheel it self to be the first pulley. All one need do is rout a groove for the v belt into one side of the wheel. Bingo - free pulley. Then save the other one for the next step up. Nice build, but should put some Fitz style buckets in.
You would enjoy the book "Stronger than a thousand men" History of water wheels. Wealth of information. It is a little known book published by a university press, maybe Ohio. My property had a 40' waterwheel in 1850 for crushing gold ore.
You have a wonderful beautiful I am you saw mill beautiful beautiful wonderful Waterwheel I wish you were my neighbor so I could learn from you I do woodwork I would enjoy working with you I'm a 70 year old and enjoy tinkering
How hard would it be to dig out and lower, (are reverse) the wheel for an over-shot construction? (I was wondering if you could collective practical relative data on energy extraction by measuring electrical generation in the various positions.)
Brian I am in the process of building the same wheel. My is approx. 36" diameter. How wide is your wheel? and the pulley next to it how did you do the cut out for the belt. ie. Router and what bit did you use?
The vee groove in the pulley is very easy to make, Had me puzzled though, one thing I learned, do not attach it to a lathe. Just attach a board to a table saw with a cut out to match the diameter of the wheel. Tilt the blade to the angle of the belt and then raise it up cutting through the board and then to the required depth, spin the wheel around cutting one side. If you have it figured out right you can just turn the wheel around and cut the other side. Now that I think back I may have started in the middle and progressed to the right width by moving the fence. I know this is as as clear as mud, but very easy once you figure it out. Using the table saw is the trick....
Super simple, make a curved piece of wood that matches the diameter, place it overtop of the table saw blade, adjust the angle you want and the depth. spin the wheel in the jig, move the fence away as you make a multiple of cuts till you get the right width. I believe I just turned the wheel around each time to cut the bevel on the opposite side
Looked for this on Google when tryin to find out how to make a lightweight water wheel to run a piston type pvc pump thing to get water for livestock. But thisn is still purty cool. I have a tiny creek so I was hoping to make something lightweight.
I think the only way to do that is to have an overshot wheel. I went for the breast wheel first and as you can see it was very noisy, the tried just the undershot. less noisy.. would like an overshot but not enough vertical height to do that.
No, that's not the only way. You can bevel (chamfer) the edge of each blade and it will make it much quieter. Also the undershot method greatly reduces your torque needed for running a generator. The more things you plug into a generator, the slower the wheel will turn. So it's vital to have the wheel loaded with as much water as high on the wheel as possible, but not necessarily overshot either. The original midshot is sufficient, just chamfer/bevel the bucket blades...
wow what a genius design except some major flows, namely your second pulley will wear out soon , secondly your wheel axle is too thin and soon get crooked and detached from the water wheel ,third you forgot that this thing was designed for generating electricity
Sir, i have exactly the same environment .please tell us in detail,how much should be the radius of the wheel, no of buckets etc???in a more detail and informative way,greetings from Pakistan
If you go to this link you may find the information you are looking for, www.lumberjocks.com/projects/258626 I believe the diameter of the wheel is 5 feet. I am not at home at this time but can answer any questions in a couple of weeks.
Gear box would be the best thing. Lots of old conveyers have them. I got a few of them from a factory that shut down some years ago. Chain drive is a good option too. They don't have to be tight. Just snug. Bicycle chain would be good to experiment but not for long term. Better to use an old mini bike or old dirt bike chain and sprockets. Old car rear ends come in a multitude of gear ratios. You can cut one axle side and weld it so only one side turns to eliminate the differential. I've seen people do that. People seem somewhat educated in the applied sciences to make a water wheel. They should be able to think of something.
Yes, noise means loss of efficiency. But, before I educate, craftsmanship goes a long way toward aesthetics as does noise, its the nature of pantomime that makes this an interesting hand built water wheel. Unfortunately Tesla hadn't heard of Mr. Pelton and his quite effective impulse wheels that manage 85-95% efficiency and touch 99.999% if you cared to try. Like Pelton, Tesla requires a decent amount of pressure. Unlike Pelton, Tesla's turbine looses a substantial amount of efficiency as load is increased. No amount of tinkering changes the fact the higher the load and consequentially the flow, the less the medium (water) interacts with the discs before it exits the turbine. Tesla made a fantastic pump for pumping certain things. Not so much something you draw energy from. Very little has changed in the past century about water turbines. Even in the late 1800's we knew all the equations and how they worked in practice. Biggest change in 100 years is the scroll case that looks similar to a snail's shell, and they figured that out by the 1920's. Between Leffel, Francis, and Pelton, we were pretty well covered on water power anywhere from 6-600ft and all in the 85-95% efficiency range at full load.
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You have a beautiful example of the perfect waterwheel ! Thank you for sharing it
All about weight to drive shaft ratio. As heavy as that wheel looks I doubt you will have any problem generating ample electricity for a camper! Awesome good. Thank You for sharing.
What you have built is beautiful. Who cares if it does not generate 12v yet. It's beautiful, this thing you've built. Way to go sir, way to go.
Damn, that's some beautiful craftsmanship.
Water wheel is legit and also love the Jethro Tull flute solo at the end 🤘
Great looking water wheel!Can’t believe you haven’t hooked up a generator to that yet.
Hi Brian. I really liked your water wheel and power generation projects. Very cool. I live in São Paulo in Brazil and here we have incredible hydraulic potential because we have several rivers. Although most of the power generation here in Brazil is from hydroelectric plants (approximately 85%). I also have a channel that I have several small-scale projects. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and experiences. I'm sorry for my very bad English 😩😩. Hugs and much success in the projects.
Very good English, checked your videos out and you have done many very interesting things
I love the end bit with the recorder.
what's left is sizes of pullies to determine the rotations to create enough rmp
je suis flatté et votre méthode est pratique mais aussi donne l'envie de se lancer dans l’aventure . bravo
Very nice work! Thank you for sharing. Curious why you did not show us the entire project, including the battery room:)
And by the way I am a general engineering contractor and have operated a cabinet and furniture manufactory for too many years. Western Hemlock is considered trash wood in most circles and will compost itself in short time. Redwood, sugar pine, locust, white oak, will last many times longer. Western Hemolck is used for kiln dried cheap studs at home depo, and as pre-primed fascia and trim. And that just prolongs the deterioration a bit. Yeah, I know, the wood was free, and its mostly for fun. You mention a culvert with a 20' drop. put a 19' wheel there with Fitz buckets and now you can light the whole house.
you might not be generating any electricity, but you sure seemed to have generated a lot fun
good work
thanks for posting. nice work. some thoughts...by using such a large pulley, the ratio of mechanical advantage present is very low. ( divide wheel radius by pulley radius; the wheel should have an advantage of at least two.) in a relatively low-speed configuration, a low-cogging pma ( stator connected wye) should work. cheers
WOW, that thing FLIES! The "breast" is really catchy, can almost dance to that beat, lol. But it's messy, water flying everywhere and would probably jam if sticks floated into the chute. The undershot would be best. Very nice job! Get you a couple of alternators wired for generating power and you could run a fridge and window A/C on that thing, lol.
Thank You for the great video. How did you lock the shaft/rod onto the water wheelY again Thank you.
The drive wheel to a smaller pulley turning much faster was a good idea in principal
but the smaller faster pulley is too close to the water to be connected to a generator
pair of automotive alternators, they would get wet and short out. What needs to be
done is a drive shaft needs to extend further up the bank away from the water where
a heavier fly-wheel can be attached as a drive wheel to power a generator or a series
of automotive alternators to produce the desired electrical power with this water wheel.
Doesn't need wires to create energy..
charges my soul wirelessly... nice build sir..
Would love to see a generator running on that wheel
Damn, I wish we were neighbors, you just might be a genius!
great build. Looks totally professional. loved the flute at the end 😁
Is there a build plan available? I see many wheels with the water coming over the top rather than underneath. Efficiency? Torque? Just asking.....
thanks for posting. some facts. the leverage present in the wheel captures the maximum amount of energy present in a limited volume of falling water. energy/torque is concentrated at the center of rotation, the shaft. the use of a large output pulley is throwing energy away. first stage of output will need to be chain and sprocket, to avoid belt slippage. to keep the radius of the output sprocket small, first stage step-up should be 1 to 3.
the current installation does not make use of all available head. wrong, wrong.
this should be an overshot wheel, mounted one foot lower. this is a guess. the radius of the wheel should be just above the tailwater. water should be entering the buckets at about 'ten o'clock'. cheers
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that's one beautiful water wheel... nice job sir
Love to have a client who wants a water wheel on one of our ponds or lakes!
What I would like to know is, what are the torque differences between the two flow setups. As anyone that has ever used a hydroelectric generator knows, when you add a magnetic induction generator and add an electric load instead of just freespinning like this, the wheel slows down and loses momentum. I imagine he tried undershot to make it more quiet, but I bet having full buckets higher up the wheel will provide more gravitational energy and more torque to maintain higher electric loads....
Your very correct, farm where I grew up we had our own electricity including a saw mill that ran off a pelting wheel, Dad said maximum torque was at 60%. I don't have enough fall to have an over shot wheel. could if I had pipe and moved the wheel farther down stream.
Beautifully crafted and great to see. I'd be using it for power but horses for courses. Thank you
I like the wheel ... But I think that the water needs to fall at higher point and that its to close because of noise it makes ... But all in all great job..
Brian where did you get this thing from
Hi Brian: Thank You for the great video. I like your water wheel! I also love that wooden pulley. I need to learn how to make both the wheel and pulley. If You go outside and it's gone, And I have one that looks exactly like yours. It's just a coincidence. LOL! Again Thank You.
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Nice movie. How did you fix the spindle of the wheel on the timber? Any Bearings, oil? And how to fix the timbers themselves in the rocks?
Wheel runs on sealed ball bearing pillow block bearings, timbers rest on concrete
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Thank you Brian.it's a water ,s force or electricity ?
lol it sounds like someone playing on the bongos.
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A good solution.. put the protective covers on the belt drive
Quit noisy ....How much power does it give ? Looks neat through...
...and I'm thinking it's 2020 and he still likely hasn't hooked a generator to it yet.
there is absolutely no power and certainly not enough to drive a generator. It's just a nice toy
@@ltjuglans194 not true at all! That would DEFINITELY generate some useful power!!
@@lovetofly32 lies that tiny pulley is useless he need to modify it a bit
Brian, did you ever think of making the penstock adjustable on angle so that the water could enter the wheel at less than a 90° angle? Say aim it in at about 15° down angle to get the water into the wheel without the paddles slapping it.
Like it setup and the property, though I have one minor gripe. The paddles slapping the water as it comes down are not doing you a favor. Ideally you would like the water to flow quietly and smoothly into the buckets to minimize the loss of it pushing the water back as it makes way for the next bucket. That said it really only makes a difference if you are trying to pull energy from it.
Or maybe you find it more entertaining as a drum machine. More power to you. Either way, fine craftsmanship. Absolutely beautiful.
I am curious of one thing. Does it ever flood the whole area such that the dam and potentially the wheel are under water?
It was fun to build just for the looks and the sound, when I built it I did want to try and make 12 volt electricity, being I didn't have enough fall for a overshot wheel, the next best thing was a breast wheel, I was surprised by the slapping of the water by the paddles. with that type of wheel I do not think it can be avoided, Only solution is the overshot wheel and the undershot wheel. The curved surface under the wheel in the breast wheel captures the water underneath where it would be ejected in the overshot wheel. Slapping is the price you have to pay for using that type of wheel. I take the wheel out every year and last year a beaver dam broke above and flooded to the top of the dam, wheel wasn't in at that time.
Brian Procter
Well, if you ever pursued power generation or maybe less noise, the undershot wheel isn't all that bad of an idea. Breast and overshot are gravity type wheels, whereas the undershot is an impulse wheel where it primarily makes power off the impact of the water against the bucket. I honestly have no idea which may be better under the circumstances, though it could be calculated with a few measurements.
Kinda curious about the dam as well. Looks like wood with concrete supports, or maybe the other way around. I have to say, I'm still amazed by the craftsmanship of the wheel. Done in a little shop, no CNC or the like, and its not purely utilitarian in that it's nice to look at as well. You must have quite the wood working shop.
If you take a fancy to generation, a GM 1 wire alternator is not a bad choice for a quick and simple setup. Just about any auto parts store carries them. The only negative is they like a certain rpm range, and the voltage is set so there's no real regulation beyond that so it's possible to overcharge. But literally a wire from the positive and negative terminals is all that's needed. Quite popular with hot rods and old vehicles.
I did switch back to the undershot, yes I like the Gm altenators, use them on my old tractors, converting from 6 volt to 12 volt.
The most self evident [should be] error in all wooden water wheels that I see is for the main wheel it self to be the first pulley. All one need do is rout a groove for the v belt into one side of the wheel. Bingo - free pulley. Then save the other one for the next step up. Nice build, but should put some Fitz style buckets in.
Not practical, Water on belt and clearance to water shoot sides, too long a belt, and the sides now have a metal band all the way around.
You would enjoy the book "Stronger than a thousand men" History of water wheels. Wealth of information. It is a little known book published by a university press, maybe Ohio. My property had a 40' waterwheel in 1850 for crushing gold ore.
Nice water wheel, but what a waste of power to be used. If I had a water wheel like that It would have a generator hook to and stop paying for power.
Did you ever get this to generate electricity?
You have a wonderful beautiful I am you saw mill beautiful beautiful wonderful Waterwheel I wish you were my neighbor so I could learn from you I do woodwork I would enjoy working with you I'm a 70 year old and enjoy tinkering
Yup! Ang I was trying to look for a turbine and I realized later on that there is none. This would have been a great source of free energy!
How much electrical energy will I be able to harness, if I invest in a good generator...with a wooden waterwheel like that?
How hard would it be to dig out and lower, (are reverse) the wheel for an over-shot construction? (I was wondering if you could collective practical relative data on energy extraction by measuring electrical generation in the various positions.)
Impossible to dig it deeper as the water would not flow away, I just do not have that much vertical feet to work with here.
I still don't know what the wheel function and how the wheel works for the water.
what are those bearings called with holder that you bolt bearings to timber please thanks
I like the rhythm.
Brian I am in the process of building the same wheel. My is approx. 36" diameter. How wide is your wheel? and the pulley next to it how did you do the cut out for the belt. ie. Router and what bit did you use?
The vee groove in the pulley is very easy to make, Had me puzzled though, one thing I learned, do not attach it to a lathe. Just attach a board to a table saw with a cut out to match the diameter of the wheel. Tilt the blade to the angle of the belt and then raise it up cutting through the board and then to the required depth, spin the wheel around cutting one side. If you have it figured out right you can just turn the wheel around and cut the other side. Now that I think back I may have started in the middle and progressed to the right width by moving the fence. I know this is as as clear as mud, but very easy once you figure it out. Using the table saw is the trick....
Super simple, make a curved piece of wood that matches the diameter, place it overtop of the table saw blade, adjust the angle you want and the depth. spin the wheel in the jig, move the fence away as you make a multiple of cuts till you get the right width. I believe I just turned the wheel around each time to cut the bevel on the opposite side
What happens when a flood comes? Have any footage? When it rains a lot and that small little area just won't due?
The wheel is not in the main stream and we don't get monsoon type rain, no floods.
Good Job,my regards from Brazil.
awesome workmanship! love it
Looked for this on Google when tryin to find out how to make a lightweight water wheel to run a piston type pvc pump thing to get water for livestock. But thisn is still purty cool.
I have a tiny creek so I was hoping to make something lightweight.
Awesome invention! Do you have any measure of energy generated?
Boa noite Brian Procter...Por gentileza poderia? passar as medidas e simetria deste projeto.
Could yo not angle the blades so there is less noise?
I think the only way to do that is to have an overshot wheel. I went for the breast wheel first and as you can see it was very noisy, the tried just the undershot. less noisy.. would like an overshot but not enough vertical height to do that.
No, that's not the only way. You can bevel (chamfer) the edge of each blade and it will make it much quieter. Also the undershot method greatly reduces your torque needed for running a generator. The more things you plug into a generator, the slower the wheel will turn. So it's vital to have the wheel loaded with as much water as high on the wheel as possible, but not necessarily overshot either. The original midshot is sufficient, just chamfer/bevel the bucket blades...
wow what a genius design except some major flows, namely your second pulley will wear out soon , secondly your wheel axle is too thin and soon get crooked and detached from the water wheel ,third you forgot that this thing was designed for generating electricity
Love you sir
interesting and well done, however, over shot has a better output for electrical/mechanical output.
i think if the water went over the wheel the generator would produce more power
Did you compare the efficiency difference between breast and under?
I would wager the undershot is more efficient, right?
From what I read the breast has more torque, as you also have the weight of the water.
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Sir, i have exactly the same environment .please tell us in detail,how much should be the radius of the wheel, no of buckets etc???in a more detail and informative way,greetings from Pakistan
If you go to this link you may find the information you are looking for, www.lumberjocks.com/projects/258626 I believe the diameter of the wheel is 5 feet. I am not at home at this time but can answer any questions in a couple of weeks.
Beautiful work, Now, I'd like to know how ya built the Damn..
that noise will drive you crazy
Ahh.... It is powering the statue to play the flute
Very cool!
Did you ever get a generator on that wheel
So fast! Should I give it a fine?
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A Rare Hidden Gem! When will we get with the times and combine it with solar and wind power.
OK U have a water wheel! Do U generate power with it ? or just look at it?
How many watts it produce?
Beautiful job! any updates?
wow that water wheel is fast! i liked the music bit 😊
yeah, like watching porn..
So it needs a gearbox to generate 12 v? Good vid and glad you had the dude playing recorder.
does it kill fish ?
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All that effort just to spin a little pulley, it would be more efficient if the wheel were lower and the water chute was above the wheel
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very nice work.
Did you treat the wood?
No, just stain. I take it out for the winter and then redo when it needs it.
wont this wheel quicky rot away?
Brunkvic not quicly
That's a nice litle Watherwheel
Sick beat
Good job u go man
Why not hook this up to a generator?
You guys and your V-Belts. I don't know why people insist on giving up anywhere from 500 - 1500 watts to V-Belts.
What would you suggest using instead?
Gear box would be the best thing. Lots of old conveyers have them. I got a few of them from a factory that shut down some years ago. Chain drive is a good option too. They don't have to be tight. Just snug. Bicycle chain would be good to experiment but not for long term. Better to use an old mini bike or old dirt bike chain and sprockets. Old car rear ends come in a multitude of gear ratios. You can cut one axle side and weld it so only one side turns to eliminate the differential. I've seen people do that. People seem somewhat educated in the applied sciences to make a water wheel. They should be able to think of something.
I'm a mill builder, watermill and windmill. But what I see here is technically wrong!
Beautiful.
Wow, people still don't know about Tesla water wheels. Noise means inefficiency.
Yes, noise means loss of efficiency. But, before I educate, craftsmanship goes a long way toward aesthetics as does noise, its the nature of pantomime that makes this an interesting hand built water wheel.
Unfortunately Tesla hadn't heard of Mr. Pelton and his quite effective impulse wheels that manage 85-95% efficiency and touch 99.999% if you cared to try. Like Pelton, Tesla requires a decent amount of pressure. Unlike Pelton, Tesla's turbine looses a substantial amount of efficiency as load is increased. No amount of tinkering changes the fact the higher the load and consequentially the flow, the less the medium (water) interacts with the discs before it exits the turbine.
Tesla made a fantastic pump for pumping certain things. Not so much something you draw energy from.
Very little has changed in the past century about water turbines. Even in the late 1800's we knew all the equations and how they worked in practice. Biggest change in 100 years is the scroll case that looks similar to a snail's shell, and they figured that out by the 1920's. Between Leffel, Francis, and Pelton, we were pretty well covered on water power anywhere from 6-600ft and all in the 85-95% efficiency range at full load.
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Very relaxing to be by.
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