Unbelievable 10-foot Diameter Pelton Wheel!! Abandoned 1900's Copper Mine

[@Cobaltcreek]

Nice piece of history thanks for sharing

[@ghosttownsandminesofwashington]

Thank you!

[@Mark_The_Magnificent]

All very cool stuff!

[@ghosttownsandminesofwashington]

Thanks!

[@OGRocker1]

Nice explore, great artifacts. Thank you for the share! Till the next, take care and stay safe ⛏⚒⛏

[@ghosttownsandminesofwashington]

Thank you. Appreciate you!

[@casedoumasr656]

Hello nice to hear want you located from early times

[@ghosttownsandminesofwashington]

Thank you!

[@erberIsSillyhawk]

I made a video of this many many years ago. between 1 and 30 miles from my house (lolz). you guys might have been the ones that told me what it was called. i dunno, been a real long time now. the whole thing is there or it was back then. taken apart, but there. I'm assuming you did not put the "were" .. that's a good thing since, well yeah.

[@ghosttownsandminesofwashington]

Its a great piece of history we keep the locations under wraps.

[@64puma64]

So cool. I would love to see a pelton wheel in use. I know they were supposed to be very efficient, but they sure don’t look like it!

[@ghosttownsandminesofwashington]

@64puma64 It's one of the best we have ever seen.

[@erberIsSillyhawk]

I had to come back and watch the video again. Its the coolest thing i've personally ever found in my wanderings. Had i not gotten "lost" i wouldn't have found it at all. i lost the trail to that other place. I just knew the creek went where i wanted to go so i went to the water n turned right :P

[@ghosttownsandminesofwashington]

Appreciate you watching, sometimes thats how the best things are found.

[@rtqii]

That is exactly the same setup that Tesla engineered at the Ames Power Shack outside Telluride, Colorado. The Pelton wheel was invented in the 1870's, but there was no technology available at the time that permitted the energy to be transmitted any significant distance. Tesla matched a 100 horsepower Pelton wheel, which were off-the-shelf, to a 100 hp alternating current generator design that he handed to George Westinghouse for commercial manufacture. The first installation powered a stamp mill located near the entrance of the Gold King Mine.

[@ghosttownsandminesofwashington]

Very interesting. Thanks for sharing that history.

[@rtqii]

@@ghosttownsandminesofwashington Mines were the first commercial application for the system Tesla engineered and Westinghouse manufactured. There is nothing left of the wheel and generator installation that supplied the Gold King Mine... This is the closest I have seen anywhere showing what the first alternating current systems looked like, how they worked, and what they were used for.

[@ghosttownsandminesofwashington]

@rtqii We have another one more intact than this one.

[@rtqii]

@@ghosttownsandminesofwashington The Ames location is an IEEE Heritage Site, and as I said, there is nothing left of the original wheel or generator installation. Any photos and/or measurements or sketches you can get of this stuff would be very much appreciated by certain people, myself included. I have a Tesla website and I would create a page to feature material like this. Once the first system was proven at the GKM, the 100 hp system went out the door like hot cakes apparently, and carbon copy setups were installed wherever they were practical. But as I said this is the first time I have ever seen an original period installation with a wheel still mounted.

[@rtqii]

@@ghosttownsandminesofwashington The nearest I have seen to original installation equipment is a two-wheel system built by General Electric in 1905... But that layout was designed and constructed years after the original 100 hp systems like this one were constructed, and it was General Electric, not a Westinghouse installation. The video here shows the original Pelton/Tesla/Westinghouse combination.

[@yamittr250]

I like that old info you added, $10 I'll take 2.

[@ghosttownsandminesofwashington]

Absolutely.

[@rydenzabreznik9284]

Hey have you heard of nighthawk? It’s near Tonasket, a little past Palmer lake.

[@ghosttownsandminesofwashington]

Yes have been many times.

[@KansasOff-Grid]

Now that is a historic artifact. wow and of course someone stole the copper out of the power generator.

[@ghosttownsandminesofwashington]

One of our favorites.

[@OnlyTakk]

love the video, but can you tone down the transitions between scenes please?

[@ghosttownsandminesofwashington]

Thanks for the feedback.