DIY Water Battery (AKA: Hydro Electric Power)

[@arsentyroshkov5490]

This video is a prime example of engineering curiosity. Thanks for taking us for the ride!

[@jimridge1]

Thanks so much for your comment. And you hit the nail right on the head...it's definitely engineering curiosity!

[@William-e1t]

it would be cool to hook the return line to a ram pump to refill the tanks on the hill. just a thought 🤔

[@jimridge1]

Yes that's a very cool idea!

[@morgunbrunelle4573]

Really cool video! I've made variations of similar setups. Just so you know. If you are curious to know the exact foot of head( difference in elevation) of your stock tanks and your Hydro set up. You can open the pressure gauge and keep your gate valve closed. This will effectively give you a PSI reading of just the fall of water from point A to point B. You can then take that PSI and multiply it by 2.31 and it will give you an approximate elevation difference. Nice build!

[@jimridge1]

That's awesome. Thanks a million for the input on this. Much appreciated!

[@mrbrown3536]

Fun video, thank you for sharing. Electricity is fascinating stuff :)

[@jimridge1]

Thanks for commenting!

[@dino9071]

Why can't they be bult those generators inside section's of pipe so you can spin lots of them on the way down through the pipe.

[@jimridge1]

That's a really good comment. It would all depend on how much pressure (head) loss each each turbine created. I suspect that each one would create very little over all so I think several turbine could be viable at one time. Another idea to consider would be putting the turbines in parallel rather than in series as you suggested above. This might work even better. In the end one would have to try it all out to see which is best.

[@christopherarther5010]

I think a charge controller would step the volts down but the amperage would go up. You could possibly get an amp out of that thing. Not sure about the lifespan.

[@jimridge1]

Wow that's a great concept! Thanks for your comment.

[@AvastMobile-f8f]

does adding another generator increase the amps generated

[@jimridge1]

Great question! I am not a 100% sure on the answer. I guess one first has to think do you connect them electrically in series or parallel.

[@RandyGlass-f5n]

It would be nice to see it with a resister across the generater output if you had a decent output bye bye dvm since you are essentially using it as a load bank

[@ivelsoup]

Thanks for uploading man. There aren't too many videos on this subject sadly. I was wanting to do the math on a large scale system, but it is very technical, and confusing. Not a lot of helpful info on the subject, fun little project though!

[@jimridge1]

Thanks for your comment! One of the main reasons for this experiment-fun project was to learn first hand about a system like this with the idea in mind of upscaling to something much larger. Which I still have plans to do. Looking at ways of creating a more viable size reservoir-battery and larger generator capacity.

[@rivercovey3906]

I would like to hook this up to a battery but cannot find any useful videos , do you have a battery you would recommend so I can use this generator to charge a power bank

[@jimridge1]

Great question. But I have to admit I too would probably just go to KZbin and start looking at DIY videos on building a battery charger (I did look and there are lots of them).

[@angelaengle12]

I'm curious if it's possible for this to be a closed system that can cycle the water endlessly and produce power continously.

[@morgunbrunelle4573]

You can, actually. I have a similar set up to this. I made a RAM pump that pumps water from a creek about 43' up a hill to a 275 gallon stock tank. About 3/4's of the way up I drilled a hole and sleeved 1 1/2" pvc into another stock tank that acts as my Hydro Battery. The water then falls down hill from that tank and powers a very similar hydro electric setup than this. The leftover water that passes through my electric setup is fed with a garden hose back down to the creek to be re pumped and cycled once more. The RAM pump is a passive pump that pumps continuously. The initial start up for me took about 48 hours to fill the stock tanks. After that, I have not touched it, and it has been running for about 2 months now.

[@taylorkurtz1513]

@@morgunbrunelle4573what do you power with the hydro battery?

[@jimridge1]

@@morgunbrunelle4573 That is totally a amazing!!! Thanks so much for sharing your setup description.

[@AnneBertiz-j5w]

Hello Man, what is that thing called? the color yellow,dynamo motor? Im going to make a project.tnx

[@jimridge1]

Here's the exact title/name from Amazon "Water Turbine Generator Micro Hydroelectric Power Generator DIY LED Power Charging Tool DC 0-80V 10W (80V)". Thanks for your comment.