1998 Archimedes Wind Turbine Generator Combined

[@elvistesla3179]

You are exactly on track with what have thought for a long time. Golden ratio capture and conversion of the wind for most efficient processing of it and a way for excess pressure to mediate or pass through so as not to stress the the prop. Putting these in an array, minimize with magnetic bearing any resistance. Make them cheap, small, modular and easy to replace. Cost effective wind conversion anywhere to get the ROI right up asap.

[@Wayne-cj7fn]

Hi, I'm in Australia. We have been using 'wind generators' for over 100 yrs. We have tried a lot of designs to improve the old "Dunlite Windgenerator". What your doing is bloody awesome, keep it going.

[@thebytespider]

Really like this wind turbine, it reminds me of a pin-wheel. I could totally see a couple of these in the garden to power garden lights

[@markiobook8639]

I think it would work superbly as a tidal turbine. The waistcoat- superb. Very nice handkerchief. Clothes befitting a gent and a scholar.

[@davidcoombes9147]

Brilliant - supersize it , get some parabolic funnels on top, add some gearing and it'll power the Tardis - wonderful stuff Robert

[@nickhadziannis8451]

You Sir, have it, bingo,wingo!

[@realorfake4765]

It's not quite the Eye of Rassilon, but it will power the house in a storm. Or parts that need to be powered.

[@fablegarmeth6897]

It is astounding on how quickly and regularly you put out videos

[@ThinkingandTinkering]

cheers mate

[@YathishShamaraj]

Yes, i was wondering the same thing, pretty soon we will celebrate 2023 😊🎉!!

[@lorenbush8876]

I agree with you, I don't see how he has time, I think he puts out a new one every day.

[@臨-g9q]

turbne_screw 這個模型，使用 Cura 觀察231 跟406 層，發現模型有問題。這樣模型轉動過程，會不會有偏心的問題

[@marcusbain8743]

I just love your videos Robert Murray Smith. So enthusiastic, joyful as well as a brilliant and very practical Engineer. I wish there was someone selling these as kits they are an amazing piece of kit. 🙏

[@timginter146]

brilliant video! I just watched a video for the new Liam F1 wind turbine and this was suggested - great to see how these experiments have a potential commercial application!

[@3dhavok]

Very nice experiment! Love your work and explanations and walk through. You are a great teacher!

[@ThinkingandTinkering]

Thank you very much!

[@hippie-io7225]

Beauty!! My phone requires 20 watt hours max to charge. If we could measure a 2 watt hour output, given your approx 30V output, we would only need about 66 milliamps to have a wonderful camp side charger!! AND it's wonderful to watch it spin!

[@jasontastic1]

Dear Robert, I would love to see a huge 3D printed version, even if it needed to be printed in parts, put together and then get an amperage reading to see what energy the surface area achieved. Thank you for your interesting and educational time here . Rating: ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️

[@growthisfreedomunitedearth7584]

the best part is the joy that comes from putting it to the test.

[@qrius_]

I'd love to see an Archimedes turbine mounted vertically inside a Darwin turbine. They look like they were made for eachother.

[@bohabdestructo7489]

That was my first thought. It looks like it would be very efficient.

[@ebaab9913]

I also saw these as a match made in heaven 😊. Also because it would allow the use of the ball bearing tip to get low friction. One thing I have found which is very important, is that these Neobidium magnets do not like being outside. If the surface coating is even very lightly scratched, the magnet just turns to rust dust.

[@russellzauner]

as soon as he said "so I've changed this to a cone" I think everyone's brains snapped into the same image.

[@brookestephen]

I was just going to write the same comment!

[@TimeSurfer206]

@@Jay-jl3ou They already are. And yes, if I were to make my own, I'd not only seat them with Epoxy Resin, I'd seal them with it too.

[@c.t.murray3632]

That's impressive. I would love to see this installed totally complete waterproof and everything have it working for at least six months and see what the readings are on a daily basis. Love to build one of these.

[@TAMESoftwareInc]

Do You know why ship propellers aren't shaped like an Archimedes Screw? Because it was found that if you cut the screw off at a point where the top of one blade starts to cover the bottom of the other, it's more efficient. It's a simple optimization that's been known for over a hundred years now. I bet You'd find the same if You were to cut the height of the screw in half and just keep the wide base.

[@badejong]

What a great design... Several on my roof will be an add-on to my solar panels... 👍👍

[@ThinkingandTinkering]

nice

[@PhilR0gers]

I was thinking along similar lines. The space between my house and my neighbour's is like a wind tunnel. A number of them mounted on the side wall would probably be very effective, would be easiet to maintain than if they were on the roof, and would be fairly unobtrusive.

[@bermudatriangle2036]

@@ThinkingandTinkering is this realistic? how many watts does that archimedes turbine make in the wind outside?

[@tiredironrepair]

Very nice. The shape is just like a Lilly impeller used to efficiently circulate water in huge cisterns so it won't become stagnant.

[@corinneyeager]

Lilly impeller ? I know of a stranger pond 🤮 Going to look it up.( Been mosquito dunking it)

[@corinneyeager]

AI substituted stranger for stagnant....

[@tiredironrepair]

@@corinneyeager It was developed by flash freezing a whirlpool I think then making a mold of the area without water. Im not 100% on all that though.

[@wannabemgtow2540]

Now that was pretty nice, I'm looking forward for the second part.

[@ThinkingandTinkering]

should be tomorrow

[@waterfuel]

The improved efficiency spiral wind turbine was already Patented in US by Japanese man in Texas, a long time ago. Large scale models also built. It's called Tornado turbine. Also, the late Mr. Baumgartner had built a lifting device platform utilizing the ETHER , by swirling of turbine air with high rpm motor, very low power , and lifting very heavy weights. (Extracting energy power from the ETHER through angle of NATURE'S spiral). He used computer program to get exacting design . Two-page article with photos was in an old Alternate Energy newspaper.

[@skampp]

That's a really nice build - maybe my favorite of your designs yet! I'm excited to see how it performs. I live in the southeastern US and my heat pump runs probably 9 hours a day on average at this time of year. I think I can make use of that exhaust air from the condenser fan, providing it's enough to collect and use in the shop.

[@azena.]

It's worthwhile considering that if you added this to the air pump exhaust flow, you might be effectively making the air thicker. I'm not sure how much excess there is in the fan, but it's possible you could cause the fan to need to work harder, or limit the heat input/output. Ultimately, conservation of energy, and I don't know how that would impact that kind of setup, it might be negligible though, in which case that could be an inventive way to net increase efficiency. Not sure how you'd test it. You'd need an isolated system with effective ambient temperature control and then attempt to see what kind of temp differential you could create for some unit input of power with the power harvested subtracted off.

[@skampp]

@@azena. Excellent point for sure. This is a typical fan though that blows vertical into the atmosphere with no restriction, not like in a pipe or constricted area. So if I covered it up with like 16 of them it might have an impact, but likely not noticeable with a couple. Good thinking, thank you.

[@azena.]

@@skampp Quite possibly, it's difficult to say without doing tests to verify. The impact of a couple may very well be negligible, but then again who knows! I guess it also depends on the kind of environment the outdoor units are tested in. After all, they have to deal with wind from multiple directions, so actually, maybe there really is nothing to worry about. I can feel the variable list and unanswered questions growing 😂

[@michaelcerkez3895]

Very interesting. After building a number of da Vinci Inventions, I think building some of your inspirations is a great inspirational jumping off points.

[@Scooter-k1h]

Mind.... BLOWN! Very nice vid and I can't wait for RWR under a load.

[@brucepooley3623]

I can see thismounted on a small boat and do great things!!! Thanks so much Robert.

[@cahito00]

Hey, thank you for doing it with two sets of magnets! That’s quite a lot of energy you’ve got there!! Congrats on this awesome channel!

[@MarcShare4Profit]

You forget your body creates an optimized flow compared to the windmeter you keep in front of your body. Nice video by the way.

[@1xm_mx1]

Love all your real world experiments with the wind turbines!

[@vinquinn]

Nice Construction. It spins well. It makes voltage. Put a little load on it and see what happens. Maybe you could get enough power to charge a phone. It needs to be much bigger to serve a useful purpose. I think a large one could be hooked to a hot water heater to get a little free hot water if you have enough wind.

[@danedmiston9673]

Glad you are staying coreless with the generators.

[@themeek351]

That's just awesome Rob! I'm so glad you are 3d printing more now, because I've been doing that for a decade now!

[@Araxatu]

This is one of my favorites turbine designs

[@amandahugankiss4110]

You look a bit like a super villain holding that in public. :)

[@ThinkingandTinkering]

lol - it looks like a ray gun lol

[@ranua9327]

Hahaha

[@peterwysoczanski9391]

solid work - thank you so much - I'm printing your magic spring files as I type - much love from FL

[@davidl.howser9707]

Robert, ☝️☝️✍♥️ maybe a series of forward facing funnel shaped shroud , then cylinder cover, and then tail components to first collect wind like an open funnel similar to what a dog wears after surgery, and add an interior rough surface or dimpled surfaced cylindrical wind energy concentrating housing shroud placed 360 degrees closely around the auger's length as a wind energy cylindrical concentrating surround to direct the wind energy to pass over the auger's fins in a parallel fashion and at a higher wind speed with the third component being that of a well set back trailing fin to turn the auger steady into the wind designed like the 1900's U.S. farmers type simple fined water pump wind prop with flat sheet tail. Think of a tail shaped like a boomerang so that the top and bottom surfaces of the trailing tail are out of the auger's vortice exhaust wind turbulence. Please keep up the inventing. I hope that You and Luke have a Happy Day !

[@Vibe77Guy]

Nice shape to fill a Darwin Tower.

[@ThinkingandTinkering]

oh yes lol

[@cxzuk]

@@ThinkingandTinkering Do you still have that little one with the flaps? or did it go in the competition? 2⃣

[@macroiu3778]

i think you will have a very popular store, like home depot, that every educated client who understands well your u tube would not hesistate to order parts to build this wind turbine for domestic or field usage because its simple & workable to the ordinary people...........

[@Stubby0266]

Is the spacer supposed to be loose in the coil former? I noticed in the video that there is a gray space? in the blue coil former. What keeps the coil from floppying around?

[@midnight121190]

Yes! I’ve been looking for someone to do this most of today! Thank you! I also would love to see what the Tesla + this would do

[@cschmucker]

Now THIS is a good project for me to build. I could use something like that for my greenhouse which could use some light. I could think about a couple of these in a row. I absolute love the joy and enthusiasm you put out!!! 40V!!!! That joyful laughter is amazing and the thingy is brilliant. Just downloaded the files from thingiverse. Should be printable on a Ender3 (because of the size). Two years ago I run into hydroponics to vertically grow vegetables in. The first test was really good so in the following year I built 4 of it. Hmmm, thinking about your project combined to make the small pumps running is another good idea I could think about. That would mean I could run those pumps with a wind turbine recharging 12V battery. Hmmmm.... yesssss! Thank you!!

[@rajivsingal1731]

Did you make the turbines to power your farm? If yes, how was the result?

[@tonyturner6948]

So here’s the big question … Which of your wind generator designs over the last few months is the most efficient to produce the most power? Would love to see.

[@andrewsmithmilan1780]

I think that would depend on your local conditions, and the total setup you put together.

[@stirfrybry1]

@@andrewsmithmilan1780 You would normalize the data to compare in the case of differing conditions. Just a little math

[@peterdarr383]

A horizontal axis propeller set-up has been deemed most efficient by cross-section.

[@andrewsmithmilan1780]

@@peterdarr383 in optimal conditions, yes. But those aren't in your everyday scenarios.

[@peterdarr383]

@@andrewsmithmilan1780 The vertical axis "impeller" (can't remember the name) is more "robust" and omni-directional, but has a 7% efficiency rating. It's used for phone charging at remote bus stops in Europe. A unit large enough to run your house would be THE SIZE of your house.

[@joohop]

Beautiful Bless Up Fella

[@buffplums]

My goodness you really have done some serious work in this field Bob. You deserve a bloody mention in despatches and a bloody big medal chap 😂

[@bdugh]

You have some really great designs and I plan to print some to experiment with. I would like to see it hooked up to a load and tested for amperage though.

[@MikeJordanUnCamplicated]

^^^^^ this. I was hoping for the lab testing mentioned

[@dallassukerkin6878]

What a splendid idea :) Much impressed as always with your ingenuity.

[@ThinkingandTinkering]

Thank you very much!

[@lxSNoNoxI]

Thx for all your years of videos, and for this one 👍

[@AdrianoBla-g2l]

Because the intensity of the wind varies a lot, the wind turbine will vary to. The graphics of wind strength for a specific área will determine what kind of turbine works better.

[@ffaubert1]

Great video. How is the coil attached to the shaft so it doesn't spin while the magnetic plates above and below do spin?

[@ThinkingandTinkering]

there are two projections on the base that the coil carrier fixes to

[@anthonycali6880]

For such a small generator, looking forward to seeing how it does under load conditions.

[@strawman9410]

Very effective at picking up low wind.

[@efinderr3256]

Brilliant best yet . Thank you

[@brookestephen]

why not create a machine that captures wind & solar energy?

[@zenaasura1769]

Theres not enough surface area for solar cells to pick up sun properly plus if its a moving object the cells dont have enough time to pick up light and generate the energy properly. Good idea though.

[@LaughingGravy.01]

A thing of beauty! Reminds me of a squid! What with the waistcoat and watch you are in danger of going full Dr. Who. It's a slippery slope. Take it from me! Perfect comic timing, tell the rooster. Impressive performance! Cheers!

[@kezyka6775]

I think a bit of the wobble/unbalance is due to the spiral not being evenly distributed in weight. A way to counteract this without messing with balance weights would be to make it a double (or more) spiral. Fun video though :)

[@Michael-South]

I wonder if you could put a screw in that counteracts the wobble. You could fine tune the wobble out then.

[@aurasensor]

Like with car tires

[@danon-theautisticmaker8112]

This is really cool. You could use this same idea / similar design & use a hoverboard wheel motor.

[@replikvltyoutube3727]

Amazing design, I think it may work well with sorta RVs

[@barthanes1]

You look like a kid with a brand new pinwheel. Nice design.

[@colleenforrest7936]

The Doctor Who look is complete!😂 Awesome generator!

[@ranua9327]

IMHO it could a good video three wind turbine moving generators of exact same type in the exact same place at the exact same time and compare the three later in the lab.

[@ranua9327]

Well, it doesn't has to be three. It could be two or four...

[@ThinkingandTinkering]

nice idea cheers

[@sUASNews]

This is great, thanks very much Robert

[@zavatone]

You need to do more with this. It's awesome!

[@SoundzAlive1]

Hi Rob, I noticed that the Archimedes spiral is very similar to a sharks egg capsule. Nature has usually evolved answers up to the Murray-Smith level. André

[@lorenbush8876]

That looks like a reverse impeller, the voltage output was impressive, I'm sure it is from running magnets on both sides of the coil.

[@kevinwolfenden4685]

great content, I have printed all the parts and now waiting for the non printable parts. Will let you know the results when I have tested it all.

[@JesusSaves86AB]

Genius. I'd buy one of these for backpacking if it were made in a kit.

[@andycordy5190]

Good luck. Your design is a delight and seems to work very efficiently. I hope it comes to market. I would be very interested.

[@Owlsrayne]

The Archimedes wind turbine seems to produce more voltage than the Darwin wind turbine. It would be awesome to see more real-world experimentation.

[@Johnbro8]

Thanks for sharing

[@ThinkingandTinkering]

Thanks for watching!

[@jeffwhite1457]

Robert, I enjoy your videos and I would love to see you build my idea. I envision a two foot metal rod with a large archimedes turbine on one end and a generator winding on the other end. There are magnets that create a mag lift to the rod and in the center of the rod there is a flywheel. The flywheel has holes drilled at a 75 degree angle that house magnets that generate a magnetic push once the wind starts the turbine spinning. Mounting it on a platform, would allow for adjustment and maximum wind capture. With the hand powered spin of the flywheel the turbine and magnets would increase the speed with very little resistance.

[@BenEehayeh]

Your an amazing thinker. You make me wish I had a 3D printer. Magnetic circuit, ✔️ 41 volts for 400 turns .2mm wire. What do you estimate the ampere generation would have been for the 41 volts? A resistor bank is used to protect coils in the wind turbines during overspin, where excess amperage can be disapated as heat. May also stop the blades from spinning. Next, Cylinder of serpentine stator and two magnet rotor cylinders as the cone inside of the Archemedes Screw.

[@Meikle641]

The usual reply to these is "Try it out yourself, haha!"

[@noamdodo]

You better add soft iron disks behind the magnets to close the magnetic field flux. this will increase the magnetic flux in the air gap and prevents flow of magnetic field at the back of the magnet plastic disks.

[@davidthomson1347]

Can i ask , why are there not manufacturing companies working with you to turn some of your interpretations and quite genius ways of proving a concept in to working and manufacturing turbines . I am sure that there would be a market for such devices . Keep up the good work .

[@thenarrowgate3063]

Of course it will spin and spin well Robert because your Awesome!! 🥳👍 Almost looks like a pin wheel @5:33 ..lol

[@Kalicdire]

That's impressive just for the fact that the highest wind speed at 2m/s is around half of the minimum required wind speed for a 3 blade turbine

[@bettyswallocks6411]

4:50 “… 0.9 m/s and it’s started to turn.” Now that _is_ something to crow about.

[@JessWLStuart]

Love this project!

[@ThinkingandTinkering]

awesome!

[@rowgler1]

It really is a beautiful mechanism. Aestheticly pleasing as a functional piece of art. I wonder how that impeller would work in reverse as a propellor? The impeller reminds me of the suction driver in an old Kirby vacuum cleaner.

[@SoulStoneSeeker]

these could replace wind turbines, caged with wire, could not kill birds, and could be on top of every house like a wind vane. plz keep at it!

[@SoulStoneSeeker]

An aquatic variant would work well in the channels :O

[@aarondingus3548]

Thanks for another great one!

[@sm-user]

Great, we have an anemometer, and based on the voltage, we can determine the strength of the wind. What about power?

[@Crisisdarkness]

wow, this is amazing, thank you so much

[@ProductsChannel]

Bilbo Baggings / Dr Who mashup. I love your videos. I've just subscribed as the videos are fun, entertaining and teach so much. You are an awesome teacher. You passion is infectious. Keep up the amazing work.

[@Anonymouse13]

Looks good! Looking forward to seeing a prototype of this.

[@sirkriskringle]

WOW that's Very Cool 👍X10 . SKK .

[@russellzauner]

I just realized I could put a generator in line with a hydraulic ram pump so when I'm pumping water up to my campsite from the river I also make electricity. 2024 camping season is going to be so awesome with all new adds lol

[@pomnichowski]

intriguing, thank you 🖐️

[@MyrLin8]

Excellent! Thanks muchly :) very interesting and well done.

[@peterfelecan3639]

Again, the same measurement error: the way that the anemometer is used to take the wind speed, the body obstructs it; you can see at 5:37 that the anemometer's blades are not moving at all when the turbine, which is not obstructed by the body, turns at high speed. Why not fix the anemometer ont the turbine's handle ?

[@eXeYeZ-404]

Would a stack of magnet disks and coils make electrify? Or would having so many magnets and coils so close together cancel it all out. For instance 6 magnet disks with 5 coils between them rotated my a turbine/gears. It seems with enough torque to turn a large stack could be an answer to folks that have limited space.

[@romaneisner798]

I love this concept but getting it waterproof is a challenge

[@drillerdev4624]

I'm wondering how big this model could escalate, since it seems safer to birds than regular wind generator models. Although I guess it'd be quite difficult to manufacture compared to standard blades, as it happens with the recent motorsail rotors which are more efficient and quieter.

[@PhilR0gers]

There is a company that makes these commercially that are 1.5 metres in diameter. They also hold several patents relating to the conical Archimedes turbine blades.

[@drillerdev4624]

@@PhilR0gers Thanks for the info!

[@SoulStoneSeeker]

An aquatic variant would work well in the channels :O

[@ATop1x]

That's impressive. Id love to test the power output on a dummy load

[@martintasker7306]

Will a funnel shaped skirt at the rear smooth the vertices at the rear archimedes screw inprove the efficency and cut down on the vibrations and make the generator point into wind self steering ?

[@Wizedealsales]

awesome work

[@wishfix]

The pelton wheel could be made on a much bigger scale, lets say 30 ft, at the end of its life reuse by cutting out the cone and putting a roof on it. Gaps in the side can be filled using ply and fibreglass. A much better outcome than landfill.

[@ibme8359]

"Fascinating" as "Spock " would say! Methinks, an improvement to basically double the output. Juxtaposition a counter rotating (mirror image one) and you will likely get "more bang for your buck" Series or parallel the output as desired.

[@mikaelfransson3658]

Awesome! Now to a Question! if we take a serpentine coil and make to tracks! one north and one south! To got levitation on the permanent magnets have a magnet in the turn of the coil! this is the cheapest way to get a levitation bearing in the rim! And max output on it to! And we can get a row on the other side to! And if that is done i can see it work Vertical and Horizontal as an Bering! It might be more costly but real Good!!! / Mikael

[@rickypeacock659]

👍Great stuff.

[@GamingKeenBeaner]

I feel like I just watched Dr. Who doing a reading of some kind with a funky sci-fi meter

[@FA1970]

I love your videos, and they have inspired me to make some models based on your work. I am testing both wind and hydro generators. This to use for charging boat (wind) and cabin (wind and hydro) What i miss in your different videos is som Watt numbers. How many Watts does your different generators make at given rpm?

[@anandawijesinghe6298]

How much electrical energy would this produce compared to a simple 3 bladed propeller of the same frontal swept area ? Much less, I suspect at much greater total device cost ! This is a much more material intensive drag device that is inherently less efficient for kinetic energy capture than a lift device having the same frontal swept area !