Plumber just thinking out loud here: If you can drop a few more feet in hight, further away in distance downstream , extend with a flexible pipe (rigid enough so atmosphere won't colapse it) with end fully submerged (in same manner as your bucket) in small body of pooling water. You want a water vaccum-column downstream of your turbine that is the tallest as possible, the biggest in size and the most sealled from air entry . You want that syphon to suck like there is no tomorrow.! Yep, extend your outake downstream while maintaining the vaccum in it. I love your idea because it's a low impact system. Incredible potential of usage for existing hydrolic ressources. Your intake can have a check valve with D.C electric water pump to prime (turn on) your system at the push of a button too. Good Job, and good luck! and keep us posted!

What propella are you useing ? Archimedes propeller would be the ultimate syphon prop on the shaft of the electical generator, could 3d print one and 3d print a shorter, which would change the pitch resulting in more watts or less.

Watch your outlet doesnt undercut the bank. Best to run it back into the mainflow

Se ata el eje del motor a el cable de freno y al eje de la jelice y el motor lo sacas del agua

I hope you're able to get some free electricity from the water😊

If the torck is thedere, put two systsm in the one spin

Is your turbine at the top? Im pretty sure you want it at the bottom so you capture all that potential energy as kinetic.

nice damn turbine

9 ampere at what voltage?

Just found your channel and it's super exciting to see more people experimenting with small scale hydro! You mention that this is a vortex generator, I'm not sure if that's technically true - or maybe it is I'm not sure, it's just not what I understand them to be! Check out the vortex generators made by turbulent the belgian hydro company. I've been thinking about building a small version of their systems for a while. It seems like a really promising design for low head high flow situations but I've not seen any decent DIY versions

Nice kaplan

No way dude! this is sick! love seeing projects like this.

You might want a 3D print something over that hole in your porch

If they had one of these turbine set up at every little waterfall or damn that they had across the city we would never have to pay for electric

You could have just used a front fork off of a bike

The drag of the motor will slow the water down and the fish will drown.

Ever think of combining you cable driven setup.. invertor spoked top ish.. to create reststrction and spin at the outlet.

Put another valve down from vacuum inlet.So you can close that instead of using the bucket on the string?

Did you put the bucket under the outlet for any specific reason?

I think it's great that your partner is helping you with this, kudos to her!

You need a housing for the impeller that will keep it straight then you can connect your pvc pipe to the housing. I could be wrong but the closer the blade tips are to the ( turbine duct or housing )ID of the pipe the better performance you will get

Increase your water pressure with a narrower tip maybe get a little bit more power

A charge controller might help by regulating the voltage spikes

I want to see you add a Maurice bracket that comes from the tip of your cone to your motor mounting spot you can lose a lot of power because of friction making that sturdy may increase your output in theory

Let’s see some data. Freaking awesome

Looks like Success

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Maybe try a scooter motor. They seems to give pretty good voltage. Connect it straight to the axle, the speed of the impeller will go up. Much less dragg

You should build a platform, or go to another place. Your health is just to prescious! Or at least cut away the bushes!!!

yay

Suggestions. 1. The water has most power right at the bottom, so thats where you want the impeller. 2. The water will tend to cling to the pipe, so unless you have a tight tolerance on your impeller, you might well be losing a lot of potential energy down the sides I would suggest adding a rod/axle guide just above the impeller, you can then have a tighter tolerance, you could also make it guide the water like the fixed vanes on a steam turbine. 3. More impellers. I suspect this ends up as a torque v speed trade off, but youd definitely gain from more impellers. 4. A valve at the bottom, close it to fill with water to start the siphon, you could also use it to stop, start and throttle power generation.

3:25 thats what she said

Really good explanations , great video dude.

Good dam video

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Very good. You should 3D print a piece for the upper portion at the rod (inside the tube), so water would (kind of) flow evenly, without much disturbance.

Niiiice

Some typical value at which e-bike hub motors provide maximum regenerative braking power is arround 500 rpm - or aproximately 8.5 rotations per second. If you reach that rpm with your turbine, you will also reach the maximum power that your hub motor can provide. Depending on the controller design, it can be somewhere in the range of 150 - 400 W.

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Just a tip, power is a ratio of torque and speed. If you were to hook a chain between the motor sprockets and the turbine, the power output would be the same. The sprockets are only changing the ratio of speed and torque. They will not increase the power output of the motor.

Have the water go over the top, and not under. That should up the power a bit. Also look at pelton wheel designs. They have proven to be the most efficient. It looks like you have a fairly big 3D printer making these water wheels. With some skillful 3D modeling, you could make a pelton wheel design that will show huge improvements.

Where did you get the hub motor?

Maybe you could add some hooks to the top poles of your ladder. So you can hang it without having to hold it and let it do it's thing.

How is the motor water proofed?

Powering a couple heaters? Pretty dang good if you ask me.

Hey, I just found your site.. it's good, well I see you hit your 1000. Congratulations! You have some funny ads coming up getting to your site. Anyway you asked a few times about suggestions. Another cool water power project is the ram pump. A 3d printed version would be cool. Might be fun designing on CAD. Keep up your creativity, you are on the road to the future . Like computers, video games and mobile phones were in the 80s. Ya in the 1900s. Now is CAD, Design, 3d printing, power generation and eco friendly. You have it all. Good luck kid!

My first thought was to pick some size drill bit and start with one hole on each side of every bucket. You could dial in exactly the speed you want slowly removing the same amount from each side of every bucket. Until you reach the flow you're looking for

that poor girl must be fed up with your projects 😅