There are NO failures,,just adaptations,,,learning to adapt That's the key..Always moving forward..Another great video. 💯🇬🇧💯🇬🇧

As a ex mechanic and now beef farmer, this made me chuckle/smile..We moved 2 36ft caravans onto our land while we built our 5 bed house...Brought back some laughable moments..Great video. 💯🇬🇧💯🇬🇧

Wow! 5o acres. That's amazing and looks incredible! Best of luck. Greetings from our off grid tiny home on 8 acres in Ireland 🇮🇪

What about an Ikea wardrobe onto hollow cheap plasterboard

If you were doing the skirt again, would you make it insulated?

Love your approach to life mate it’s inspiring 💪

Congrats on not having your arm ripped off... yet...

those Big rocks could of been placed there by the ICE Age

Hi just up your street kiss harber natural buildings tonight's blog have a look if you haven't already watched enjoy your chanel

Too much waffle man,just get on with it!

You forgot to put your bra on!

I appreciate your openness in this video, but given your start point of buying a property with potential for 18 flats and 4 houses by borrowing money from friends and family members, it's a bit of a push to say "you can do it and you can do it right now, it doesn't matter what position you are in". For 99% of people this route would be unattainable. How would you have secured the finance with no securities?

take a look at LoRaWan. Its similar to wifi but it works @ 900mhz and can travel kilometres.

Should have had a cement board backer, mounted on a flammable surface.

Our well freezes when it gets bad. It's usually 2-5 days with no water. Just a thought. I'm sure you've already dismissed it! IIRC, you have heating in the space under your caravan. If the water barrels were next to the caravan, enclosed, you could potentially cut a hole in the caravan skirt and allow the heat under there to keep your barrels from freezing? Enjoying your progress immensely.

The best electric heater is a Bitcoin farm! Concider it :-)

It is better to install the vertical ventilation pipe slightly below the water inlet. This allows the trapped air to be released from the pipe. Otherwise, this air will remain in the pipe and reduce its throughput, creating an air lock.

Over the past few weeks I have been developing my off-grid ideas on paper for an ecological farm glamping campsite. Before I start looking for a lender, I need as much information as I can gather. The land I have in mind is hilly and may have an opportunity to use a DIY hydroelectric turbine in addition to a 10 kWh solar panel system. I'm curious about the costs of an 800w DIY water turbine and experiences. How expensive was the system, does it make sense to narrow the pipe with reducers to increase the water pressure and is the system profitable?

Glad to see you back. I started to wonder if KZbin had shadowbanned you. Keep the content coming matey

That device has MPPT built in and you’re changing its power curve. System changes its resistance internally and voltage distribution of whole circuit changes and current as its result.

Great useful video(s)!!! How was the Deisel heater one year on ... continued problems? Would another heater have been better? Thanks again - Know a subscriber!

Do you reckon the first anchor used will be enough to hold half of a mirror weighing about 5-7KG, with the other half being held by a regular screw in a wall stud behind the plasterboard?

What was the black stuff you painting on the edges?

Clear and very helpful 😊

Hello, we are in Teesdale and at the beginning of our micro hydro journey. We've capped a spring up on the moor and have 500m of pipe coming down the hill with a vertical drop of 70m. I looked at the NZ pelton wheels but decided to go with the cheaper turgo wheel from motenergy. I'm wondering, were you just lucky that yours went together without issue? I have had to drill my own holes in the blue box to attach the generator on top. Next the hole in the middle of the turgo wheel does not slide over the generator shaft so I'm going to try grinding it slightly wider. Then the key is too long if I want the aluminium adapter to sit close to the generator which is the optimum position for it. Did you cut the key in half and then secure it with glue? (I assumed one of the two side screws would secure the key but they are out of position to do that). Thank you I'm enjoying following your story 🙂

If you connect a pipe to the inside of the overflow and have the pipe take the water from the bottom of the barrel, it will suck out any sediment you may have collected in the bottom of the barrel - self cleaning.

Hoping to build something similar to house rainwater pump and storage. Had thought about making sips but do not have the time at moment.

Can't you just keep the water flowing through the barrels to waste. That could keep them unfrozen. I see you are already doing that

Just found your channel. A very articulate explanation of your scheme. How much head would you lose by feeding both sources into the settling tank and use that as a manifold. Alternatively is there a relatively flat section of stream, or wider channel, above where the water may drop some of the load (turbulent flow has a higher carrying capacity compared to more orderly laminar flow)Laminar flow for your where your penstock screen is to be located would reduce the silt content in your pipe.

Can you not put the low voltage anti freeze wire round I know your thinking amps battery’s etc or dig a big hole and use the ground temp difference ??

Thank you so much. So helpful

That was a dragged out way of saying this is clickbait...

Just came over here after looking at the cost of sheet materials OSB and ply, 🤯 they are still stupidly expensive so don't chuck any material that can possibly be re/upcycled.

Love seeing your projects come to fruition. Your engaging manner and practical approach are a delight to watch. Look forward to your 1.5 hydro vid. Stay well and hopefully you don't get the snow bad....

You could build a 5th "fake barrel" with a pipe, feed from the bottom of the 4th barrel. Then you have a flow in the 4th too! Another tip: You could get some silicone mat or to pour it, to create your own (thicker) seals. Edit: just had another idea: burry the inlet pipe deep into the ground before it goes into the barrels, so it gets "heated up".

Great to see you back, hope everything has been OK with you and the family

Will look forward to your new channel ideas. I think learning old and new techniques for moving forward away from the established norm.

I'm planning on doing something similar to yourself in a few years and I'm always contemplating your water pump set up.

Why did you use silicone sealant for the pipes , i use it for pond plumbing

You know how along freeways theres walls along to block the sound? Try building a small wall on the side facing you and it'll redirect at lot of the noise. Doesn't have to be much, just a foot or 2 taller than the enclosure, and maybe 10 ft or so length. It should redirect a lot of noise away from your house. Remember a lot of noise will come out the bottom where the water comes out and you can't foam that.

Look for companies that develop biological products for tick control. Here in Brazil, Decoysmart has a solution for ticks. I have been in the partnership program with them for three years and it is definitely the only one that is truly efficient in controlling these pests.

I’m new to this so if I got 2x 3.6kw instead of an 8.8kw does that mean there is less chance of it tripping even tho I realise I will lose 1.6kw?

"Continuity is HARD"

Look at a smarty sim card that's runs on three

You could actually pump water up the hill when you have excess power rather than just dump it. Build two small ponds.

Max available power = flow x drop x gravity, which in your case if I've got the numbers right would be 10 x 75 x 9.8 = ~7,500W So if you're getting 750w then that's a 10% system efficiency, gravity to electricity. A pico Turgo can run up mechanically into the 80s, so something somewhere is costing you a lot of power. Pipe friction will presumably be a lot of it. Otherwise, have you calculated the heat losses for 6mm cable over that distance? Would be nice if the inverter (also acting as charge control for the batteries?) was MPPT rather than having to program the power curves manually, but hydro is generally stable enough that at least that's an option and sounds like you've probably honed in on the maximum power point through trial and error. General rule of thumb tho is that the top of a turbine's power curve should be under such load as halves the open circuit RPMs. ie, if completely unloaded it was spinning at 2,000 or whatever, the most efficient load would be whatever amperage takes that down to 1,000. Other than that, your nozzles sized to fit?

Far as I understand (most of my experience is with other forms of hydro than pressure type turbines) you want all your jets coming off the same input for reasons of balancing the runner. If one of those supplies was for whatever reason (head, friction, turbulence, blockage, etc) of a lesser momentum than the other then it would lead to some degree of differential loading on either side of the runner, which would put some amount of strain on your bearings and system in general. That being said, I have seen some setups with either only one jet, or variable secondary jets, and they don't seem to immediately explode, so it may or may not be an actual issue.

I haven't had a chance to play with coanders yet, stainless or otherwise, but on the matter of 3D printing you can both print with a very fine layer size, and with the layers axial rather than radial, ie in the direction of flow, so that any roughness isn't resistive to the water. But as you say, if the main problem is fine silt then it's likely more an issue of separation than filtration, so something like the gravity / cyclonic barrels you already seem to have are probably your best bet and just remember to drain them as necessary. I'm also in Scotland, til the end of the year at least, let me know if you want a chat about various options.

Have you ever heard of kris harbour ? He would be a good person to talk to

Have you seen the new alternator charger that's been created for the EcoFlow power generators? It's a genuine game-changer, increasing the recharge times to 8 times faster than standard. You don't even need solar panels for them now, which is ideal for Scotland, you can literally charge them from your car battery at a rate of 800 watts. No, it won't drain your car battery, it has built-in protection to avoid that :) . Check the Hobotech video for this DC-to-DC charger on KZbin, his reviews are always excellent.