This is impressive. Do you have somewhere other than Facebook where you outline specs and construction? Thanks :) Nice.

Good to see the follow up on the battery packs. Great way to get some useful value from older batteries.

Mega windy at the 09:20 mark !!!!!

:-D waiting to be home to pee on the tire.

I've been following for quite some time your adventures and I realy like how you attack your challenges. Step by step you experiment, you try, you fail, you succeed. I follow the same exact route in building my biomass burning installation at home. It took me already six years, but I am already in the stage that it is running automaticaly and heating the house and providing hot water. Just keep up the work, you are following the right path!

Nice

I am getting a used Perl+ soon so doing some research on how to use these things!

Is the dump load connected directly to the turbine?

That seemed to work well.

Thanks for showing wind speed ;-)

i have same idea with solar + china windturbines (2 meter rotor diametre; other are to small) and PTC HEAT ELEMENTS ... but here is not enough wind most times .. i wait for bigger china turbine because now i only have one with 1,1 meter rotor diametre ..

Nice! But I hate the shaking wheel 😂

seems a shame to lose all that power go vacuum a rug ! 😁😁

BRAVO

Why no furling tale?

Up to 500W is good with almost full battery. How much was the wind speed?

I wonder if tensioner roller would keep the chain on track and snug? Also I have heard of people waxing chains to keep corrosion out and to retain lube.

This is a bodge because the wiper motor uses a worm gear to give a high step down ratio and prevent any free movement at the side effect of poor efficiency. Bike chain then steps it all up and adds a free wheel. More energy losses.

You should really use a BMS or at least a balance charger, otherwise bad things could happen. but cool vid :D

Nice that you share the updates. I always used to have trouble fitting sizable blades to a shaft, even with a key/set screw/fairly large shaft they'd usually wind up getting welded on at hte end of the day. I'm not sure if that's the problem here. One thing that surprises me a little about this machine is the chain ~ I think it has a hard life.

Just started watching your channel, I am interested to know where you are recovering your lithium battery packs from? Are they from laptop packs of some description? Keep up the good work.

So simple but you’re the only one who made it clear and simple Love you man

I tinker a bit with Lithium cells using similar chargers but I do not leave anything on charge overnight - just don't trust the chargers given what might happen if they decide to go rogue.

You R the "Gearhead Inventing Whisperer" Nice use of a Vice-Grip™ I haven't been this intrigued since I found out my 'hot sister' was adopted. Just saying ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Cheers from So.Ca.USA 3rd house on the left

I have two sets of these, they are fantastic, especially for big holes in sheet metal. I just wish they came in a decent storage box - I'd happily pay a couple of quid more for that.

thanks for the video

That was cool

Great try! You're right. Usually the wiper motor is designed for all conditions and should bear the mileage. For Ebike applications it is ideal with an intermittent cycle. I'll give it a try. Regards (Sham).

The weight on the gearbox is applying a force it is not designed to take

If it was me, i'd put fuses between individual cells just in case one fails short circuit so the whole pack doesn't dump all its energy out at once in a very spicy way otherwise, great work!

That's pretty awesome. What inverter are you using?

Hi Gavin I think there is no ball bearing in the reducer, it’s not made to carry the weight. Cheers.

I guess a window crank motor isn't intended for continuous use

This is most interesting. I'm eager to watch your progress

Curious to see how this goes, subbed. I have some ideas about using wiper motors for an RC tracked vehicle. Not much speed but lots of torque.

It sounds like a brush to commutator issue

Very rudimental but interesting none the less. Subscribed to find more.

Fascinating! Looking forward tk future videos.

Two plates on both sides of those batteries bolted would compress them just fine!

Kinda noisy for a bike.

It will be interesting how all this will work out in the end.

what top speed on your bike do you think it will achieve?

Good project - the weak link may be the reduction gear in the wiper motor - The worm gear on the motor shaft usually drived a nylon gear which I think will be prone to stripping unless there's some sort of slipping friction clutch mechanism.

Start saving for some new bearings after spraying WD-40 in the grease hole. Go borrow a grease gun if you can't afford one give a neighbor some pocket change for using theirs to properly grease the bearings. These are called grease zerts by the way.

Interesting! I hope it all works on your bicycle. Thanks for sharing!

Dude you don’t weld bearings, you need to KZbin basic fundamentals of engineering and mechanics.

WD-40 is not what those bearings need basically it was designed as a water repellent for aircraft aviation wings!

WD 40 is not a lubricant, it will wreck the bearings, get a grease gun from a car boot sale and fill them full of grease. the frictional losses in dry rusty chains will also lose huge amounts of energy that shoyuld be turned into electricity. Its a good set up, poorly maintained!

Definitely fit a j box to stop water getting at connections (bottom entry)

Mechanism needs a hood or a fairing for protection from the weather.