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.
@thebytespider11 ай бұрын
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
@elvistesla317911 ай бұрын
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.
@marcusbain874311 ай бұрын
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. 🙏
@3dhavok11 ай бұрын
Very nice experiment! Love your work and explanations and walk through. You are a great teacher!
@ThinkingandTinkering11 ай бұрын
Thank you very much!
@markiobook863911 ай бұрын
I think it would work superbly as a tidal turbine. The waistcoat- superb. Very nice handkerchief. Clothes befitting a gent and a scholar.
@themeek35111 ай бұрын
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!
@c.t.murray363211 ай бұрын
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.
@1xm_mx111 ай бұрын
Love all your real world experiments with the wind turbines!
@timginter14610 ай бұрын
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!
@jasontastic111 ай бұрын
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: ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️
@qrius_11 ай бұрын
I'd love to see an Archimedes turbine mounted vertically inside a Darwin turbine. They look like they were made for eachother.
@bohabdestructo748911 ай бұрын
That was my first thought. It looks like it would be very efficient.
@ebaab991311 ай бұрын
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.
@russellzauner11 ай бұрын
as soon as he said "so I've changed this to a cone" I think everyone's brains snapped into the same image.
@brookestephen11 ай бұрын
I was just going to write the same comment!
@TimeSurfer20611 ай бұрын
@@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.
@davidcoombes914711 ай бұрын
Brilliant - supersize it , get some parabolic funnels on top, add some gearing and it'll power the Tardis - wonderful stuff Robert
@nickhadziannis845111 ай бұрын
You Sir, have it, bingo,wingo!
@realorfake476511 ай бұрын
It's not quite the Eye of Rassilon, but it will power the house in a storm. Or parts that need to be powered.
@wannabemgtow254011 ай бұрын
Now that was pretty nice, I'm looking forward for the second part.
@ThinkingandTinkering11 ай бұрын
should be tomorrow
@brucepooley362311 ай бұрын
I can see thismounted on a small boat and do great things!!! Thanks so much Robert.
@buffplums9 ай бұрын
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 😂
@growthisfreedomunitedearth758411 ай бұрын
the best part is the joy that comes from putting it to the test.
@hippie-io722511 ай бұрын
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!
@chrisjennings456911 ай бұрын
Mind.... BLOWN! Very nice vid and I can't wait for RWR under a load.
@ferminenriquezamorapineda283211 ай бұрын
This is one of my favorites turbine designs
@skampp11 ай бұрын
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.11 ай бұрын
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.
@skampp11 ай бұрын
@@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.11 ай бұрын
@@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 😂
@cahito0011 ай бұрын
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!
@peterwysoczanski939111 ай бұрын
solid work - thank you so much - I'm printing your magic spring files as I type - much love from FL
@dallassukerkin687811 ай бұрын
What a splendid idea :) Much impressed as always with your ingenuity.
@ThinkingandTinkering11 ай бұрын
Thank you very much!
@badejong11 ай бұрын
What a great design... Several on my roof will be an add-on to my solar panels... 👍👍
@ThinkingandTinkering11 ай бұрын
nice
@PhilR0gers11 ай бұрын
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.
@bermudatriangle20369 ай бұрын
@@ThinkingandTinkering is this realistic? how many watts does that archimedes turbine make in the wind outside?
@amandahugankiss411011 ай бұрын
You look a bit like a super villain holding that in public. :)
@ThinkingandTinkering11 ай бұрын
lol - it looks like a ray gun lol
@ranua932711 ай бұрын
Hahaha
@zavatone10 ай бұрын
You need to do more with this. It's awesome!
@lxSNoNoxI11 ай бұрын
Thx for all your years of videos, and for this one 👍
@TAMESoftwareInc11 ай бұрын
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.
@cschmucker9 ай бұрын
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!!
@rajivsingal17316 ай бұрын
Did you make the turbines to power your farm? If yes, how was the result?
@Anonymouse1311 ай бұрын
Looks good! Looking forward to seeing a prototype of this.
@midnight12119010 ай бұрын
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
@Vibe77Guy11 ай бұрын
Nice shape to fill a Darwin Tower.
@ThinkingandTinkering11 ай бұрын
oh yes lol
@cxzuk11 ай бұрын
@@ThinkingandTinkering Do you still have that little one with the flaps? or did it go in the competition? 2⃣
@DerAngler8911 ай бұрын
First of all: I love your videos! I love the topic and you explain it so simply and well! Can you explain a Halbach array and possibly test it? I know it's complex and you say that simplicity is often the key😄
@michaelcerkez38955 ай бұрын
Very interesting. After building a number of da Vinci Inventions, I think building some of your inspirations is a great inspirational jumping off points.
@waterfuel3 ай бұрын
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.
@anthonycali688011 ай бұрын
For such a small generator, looking forward to seeing how it does under load conditions.
@vinquinn6 ай бұрын
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.
@rowgler111 ай бұрын
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.
@efinderr325611 ай бұрын
Brilliant best yet . Thank you
@danedmiston967311 ай бұрын
Glad you are staying coreless with the generators.
@replikvltyoutube372711 ай бұрын
Amazing design, I think it may work well with sorta RVs
@strawman941011 ай бұрын
Very effective at picking up low wind.
@jeffwhite145711 ай бұрын
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.
@tiredironrepair11 ай бұрын
Very nice. The shape is just like a Lilly impeller used to efficiently circulate water in huge cisterns so it won't become stagnant.
@corinneyeager11 ай бұрын
Lilly impeller ? I know of a stranger pond 🤮 Going to look it up.( Been mosquito dunking it)
@corinneyeager11 ай бұрын
AI substituted stranger for stagnant....
@tiredironrepair11 ай бұрын
@@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.
@brookestephen8 ай бұрын
why not create a machine that captures wind & solar energy?
@zenaasura17696 ай бұрын
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.
@joohop11 ай бұрын
Beautiful Bless Up Fella
@sUASNews10 ай бұрын
This is great, thanks very much Robert
@davidl.howser970711 ай бұрын
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 !
@danon-theautisticmaker811211 ай бұрын
This is really cool. You could use this same idea / similar design & use a hoverboard wheel motor.
@SoundzAlive111 ай бұрын
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
@Johnbro811 ай бұрын
Thanks for sharing
@ThinkingandTinkering11 ай бұрын
Thanks for watching!
@andycordy519011 ай бұрын
Good luck. Your design is a delight and seems to work very efficiently. I hope it comes to market. I would be very interested.
@tonyturner694811 ай бұрын
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.
@andrewsmithmilan178011 ай бұрын
I think that would depend on your local conditions, and the total setup you put together.
@stirfrybry111 ай бұрын
@@andrewsmithmilan1780 You would normalize the data to compare in the case of differing conditions. Just a little math
@peterdarr38311 ай бұрын
A horizontal axis propeller set-up has been deemed most efficient by cross-section.
@andrewsmithmilan178011 ай бұрын
@@peterdarr383 in optimal conditions, yes. But those aren't in your everyday scenarios.
@peterdarr38311 ай бұрын
@@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.
@user-vu3fd2rj1c11 ай бұрын
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.
@aarondingus354811 ай бұрын
Thanks for another great one!
@davidthomson134711 ай бұрын
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 .
@ProductsChannel11 ай бұрын
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.
@lorenbush887611 ай бұрын
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.
@hakasays11 ай бұрын
I'm impressed how you can put these videos out almost daily! Do you have a team helping you or is it a one-man shop with filming+editing+posting?
@bdugh11 ай бұрын
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.
@MikeJordanUnCamplicated9 ай бұрын
^^^^^ this. I was hoping for the lab testing mentioned
@pomnichowski11 ай бұрын
intriguing, thank you 🖐️
@JessWLStuart4 ай бұрын
Love this project!
@ThinkingandTinkering4 ай бұрын
awesome!
@hansranz952511 ай бұрын
I would be interested on the efficiency of the different designs. If you have much wind, all would work and generate enough energy for privat cases, but mostly are low wind conditions with less energy inside. So its important to use the theoretical possible energy with low wind efficient. Sure it is not Trivial, but maybe you can test equal scales of your designs on a big ventilator with the same generator and measure the power output? Very nice work you do!
@Crisisdarkness5 ай бұрын
wow, this is amazing, thank you so much
@MarcShare4Profit4 ай бұрын
You forget your body creates an optimized flow compared to the windmeter you keep in front of your body. Nice video by the way.
@colleenforrest793611 ай бұрын
The Doctor Who look is complete!😂 Awesome generator!
@kevinwolfenden46856 ай бұрын
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.
@Stubby026611 ай бұрын
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?
@CH-pt8fz11 ай бұрын
I do love your videos and the frequency of your experiments for I would think there's a lot of time spent off camera to get usable footage, thank you for sharing,This is very cool. So will you get the same impressive results as you scale upwards , will the size and mass of a larger turbine create more friction on bearings stopping to the turbine from turning.
@macroiu37786 ай бұрын
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...........
@Wizedealsales11 ай бұрын
awesome work
@JesusSaves86AB11 ай бұрын
Genius. I'd buy one of these for backpacking if it were made in a kit.
@romaneisner7985 ай бұрын
I love this concept but getting it waterproof is a challenge
@synapticaxon930311 ай бұрын
That turns pretty good for the size of it. Can you attach a load and retest? Also, is there a max speed or some way to brake at a limit so it doesn't fly apart?
@ranua932711 ай бұрын
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.
@ranua932711 ай бұрын
Well, it doesn't has to be three. It could be two or four...
@ThinkingandTinkering11 ай бұрын
nice idea cheers
@stephenstobinski552911 ай бұрын
The Archimedes wind turbine seems to produce more voltage than the Darwin wind turbine. It would be awesome to see more real-world experimentation.
@jmills154911 ай бұрын
Good one Rob... 😊
@kezyka677511 ай бұрын
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-South11 ай бұрын
I wonder if you could put a screw in that counteracts the wobble. You could fine tune the wobble out then.
@aurasensor10 ай бұрын
Like with car tires
@rickypeacock65911 ай бұрын
👍Great stuff.
@MyrLin88 ай бұрын
Excellent! Thanks muchly :) very interesting and well done.
@davidshelley659811 ай бұрын
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!
@SUPERNVA-gr4srАй бұрын
Loved it
@PP.EKOTECH3 ай бұрын
Good job ! :) Regards Paul P.
@VeeScaliaDesigns27 күн бұрын
Fantastic!
@Kalicdire11 ай бұрын
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
@peterfelecan363911 ай бұрын
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 ?
@ffaubert111 ай бұрын
Great video. How is the coil attached to the shaft so it doesn't spin while the magnetic plates above and below do spin?
@ThinkingandTinkering11 ай бұрын
there are two projections on the base that the coil carrier fixes to
@AbhiramaKThantri10 ай бұрын
Thank you for your video
@ThinkingandTinkering10 ай бұрын
Thanks for watching!
@ATop1x9 ай бұрын
That's impressive. Id love to test the power output on a dummy load
@BenEehayeh11 ай бұрын
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.
@Meikle6418 ай бұрын
The usual reply to these is "Try it out yourself, haha!"
@martintasker730611 ай бұрын
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 ?
@1mremington11 ай бұрын
Awesome! Is the generator interfering with the air flow over the screw?
@deaddegenerategeneration744111 ай бұрын
Damn close too 2000
@barthanes111 ай бұрын
You look like a kid with a brand new pinwheel. Nice design.
@Badge11227 ай бұрын
Its hard for me to believe it could make more power than a 3 blade mill.
@MrSummitville7 ай бұрын
He is a "toy" maker.
@thenarrowgate30639 ай бұрын
Of course it will spin and spin well Robert because your Awesome!! 🥳👍 Almost looks like a pin wheel @5:33 ..lol
@insightamization9 ай бұрын
BRAVO!!!
@yougeo11 ай бұрын
If you put the magnets in and eliminated the south facing ones leaving an empty hole would it create a fluctuating DC current rather than an AC current in the wire thus eliminating the need for a rectifier?