I can just imagine your neighbours.."Honey, the mad scientist is out looking at his gutter in the rain again!".

@captainnutzlos3816

2 жыл бұрын

🤣😂👍

@Mike-kr5dn

2 жыл бұрын

They're asleep at that time

Most people sleep on a rainy 5am .... he is out there, monitoring his inventions😂

@d-boyzeighteenhundred

3 жыл бұрын

If I was his neighbor I would probably think he is some type of crackhead 🤣 5 AM digging around in the gutter 🤣🤷‍♂️

@cafloivedu

2 жыл бұрын

He Is a man of focus, commitment, sheer will...

@ahmadnasir9370

2 жыл бұрын

shi Bar Tb t yang tidak bisa di ajak ke dalam Teks yang disalin akan otomatis ditampilkan di siniTeks yang disalin akan otomatis ditampilkan di sinister dan Teks yang q ik L akan otomatis ditampilkan di sini

@jasmijnariel

2 жыл бұрын

@@ahmadnasir9370 nooo idea what the fck you said... next time try english like all of us

@glacialblueberry

2 жыл бұрын

Such an amazing attitude to life! You seem authentic, down to earth, and just outright a good man. Thanks for sharing your enthusiasm with us.

Lmao, calibrated finger! Totally an engineering tool. I've actually used this tool as well.

@GeoFry3

3 жыл бұрын

That goes along with the calibrate elbow (torque wrench) and the safety squint (safety glasses)

@matthewpollock9685

3 жыл бұрын

I dunno, as an A&P (yeah, I'll be that guy), I gotta question the calibration of that finger. When was it last calibrated? I didn't see a cal date sticker.

@benholroyd5221

3 жыл бұрын

I'm a generous guy, I give people the (calibrated) finger, and they just throw it back in my face.

@baikia777

3 жыл бұрын

I've used calibrated finger all the time for cooking rice

@DrexYiii

3 жыл бұрын

Comment: posted 4 days ago Video: posted 3 days ago Me: "wait a minute"

The scream had me laughing because my focus was totally stolen by that little thing 5:56

@adnanabdillahghifari720

2 жыл бұрын

It made me laugh too

@artenroyal10

2 жыл бұрын

In the middle of the night, my neighbors probably thought I lost my sh*t.

@xaby996

2 жыл бұрын

LMFAO

@adnanabdillahghifari720

9 ай бұрын

6:00 😅

The genuine laugh I had from the screaming needle = instant liked video. The rest is great, too, of course.

@QuintBUILDs

3 жыл бұрын

Wasn't sure anyone would notice but it cracked me up so much I had to do it! 👍

@jclowe735

3 жыл бұрын

I liked the video at the start.

Send some rain our way. Our rain barrels have been empty for weeks! Speaking of rain barrels. Mounting a few right below the gutter could be a great way to store and recapture the overflow in peak times. Like a potential energy capacitor. Also has the added benefit of watering the garden.

@QuintBUILDs

3 жыл бұрын

I wish I could Sean! It's raining hard here even as I type! And yeah, in retrospect some kind of storage like a water tower would fix all the problems I had early on. Wait until it fills and discharge on-demand at whatever power rate is desired. Though in some places storing rain water like that is illegal which makes zero sense to me. Hope you eventually get the rain you need!

@kalleemony9930

3 жыл бұрын

@@QuintBUILDs The problem with letting everyone store all the rainwater they want is that it limits the amount of water that makes it into underground reservoirs, which are important for everyone. Sure one or two people keeping a barrel behind their shed isn't going to do much, but imagine if people who owned large areas of land completely blocked out the natural water cycle for themselves. It would be potentially catastrophic.

@travisk5589

3 жыл бұрын

Here in California. It's illegal to store or hinder the flow of rain water that falls on your house. You are not allowed to use rain barrels although a lot of people do. Keep in mind that its the government's water, not the people's.

@travisk5589

3 жыл бұрын

@The Tired Horizon Google also says that Biden won fair and square, that China didn't make the Bat flu, etc etc.

@AJMansfield1

3 жыл бұрын

@@QuintBUILDs Another main reason for policies like that is the health hazard posed by open-topped storage barrels, as the standing water creates an ideal environment for mosquitos to breed.

Literally laughed out loud at the 6 minute mark

@MyrKnof

3 жыл бұрын

yea that was fuckin' great! :D

@nithinsimon6074

3 жыл бұрын

😂

@jclowe735

3 жыл бұрын

I had to go back to it but it's funny and I laughed as well.

@TekniskM

3 жыл бұрын

Me too!!! 🤣🤣🤣

@davidvickers8425

3 жыл бұрын

And when he turned into needleman and smitty "nailed it" from monsters inc at 2:10 mark "go get em, mr soloman" dude is a genuine laugh. awesome.

Text gang !!

@johnhenry3255

3 жыл бұрын

Text gang indeed

@ericbonanno5214

3 жыл бұрын

Hear hear!

I'm a hydroelectricity engineer in British Columbia and we deal with a lot of the same problems you are going through Quint! As soon as the marble bag came out I thought you end up with some differential head problems 😊. As for overflow - need a bigger reservoir!

@astrocar7748

2 жыл бұрын

A bigger reservoir would be nice, but how about this as a possible solution. Send the overflow into a secondary reservoir (a rain barrel). Use a bell siphon again here to feed it back to the same charging station (no need to make another one). The siphon can either be triggered manually when there is no rain, or when it reaches a minimum fill level and the other siphon is not currently pumping. Thoughts?

@Rednax42

8 ай бұрын

My immediate thought too: add a reservoir at (near) gutter height to store all the wasted water (energy) from rainy days.

i feel like capturing the water in a small reservoir then using that to feed would result in much better pressure, and less stress on the gutters. its the same as charging the battery bank instead of the phone directly

@asleepawake3645

2 жыл бұрын

A water tank would be perfect! A water tank could also double as water storage to water the lawn on dry days. It'd be awesome for those two storey homes. Now if houses are designed fro the ground up to cache rainwater, they'd have gutters with self cleaning grilles so big debris doesn't go in. Half the success is designing soemthing that doesn't need to be maintained so often

I especially liked that falling guy cry when pushed debris into the outlet of the siphon. Good edit.

@6:00 Oscar winning sound editing choice

@Debbiebabe69

3 жыл бұрын

RIP that blade of grass....

Technically anyone who lives near a hydro electric dam has been charging there phones off rain the whole time....

@NVM3

3 жыл бұрын

He should add Free Rain Energy on his tittle :)

@heathgoodrich670

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, was looking for this comment hahahah

@shadowfightertips6921

2 жыл бұрын

You are not wrong but you don't have to say it

@michaelsorensen7567

2 жыл бұрын

But not a rain *gutter*

@stevebabiak6997

2 жыл бұрын

Canadians don’t call the power company the “hydro company” for nothing …

You need to put a very small hole in your overflow so that your gutter eventually dries. Gutters aren’t meant to hold water permanently and a dry gutter will have a better chance of naturally clearing itself out than one that has constant moisture in it. I’ve done aquaponics and the Bell siphons used there always have a means to fully drain in the event of power loss because you don’t want standing water there, either. A simple hole at the lowest point of your overflow self seals when there’s enough water, if the hole is small enough, and doesn’t negatively impact ebb and flow. Just a thought.

@voltcorp

Жыл бұрын

indeed, and if this was in tropical weather it'd be a health risk for the whole neighborhood

I always love watching a fellow Oregonian getting power from the sky trying to soak us

Oh that sound effect of the stick falling down the pipe made me gut laugh! that was awesome!!!

@QuintBUILDs

3 жыл бұрын

😁

@bjornmacintosh4954

2 жыл бұрын

@@QuintBUILDs I came back for second watch, had forgotten about this comment, and the stick falling sound got me again :) haha, sooo good. :)

the amount of energy you used to blow out the debris from the gutter could have charged your phone twice

@Mike-kr5dn

2 жыл бұрын

Well the blower could be 600 watts, if he cleaned it for 10 minutes = 60 Wh of energy. That would charge an iPhone 11 five times.

@Lad140490

Жыл бұрын

@@Mike-kr5dn well, 600W x 0.17h roughly equals 102Wh, not 60. But... 😀 you're still right!

@Mike-kr5dn

Жыл бұрын

@@Lad140490 yeah I see it now lol. Thanks

I love how you make this fun and educational. Keep adding the funny interloods and comic noises. It totally works for your audience. Nice work 👏 👌

While I've enjoyed watching these videos, it's totally put me off the idea of using rain to generate electricity lol With so many challenges and such little output, I'd rather just use a hand crank generator.

@QuintBUILDs

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, literally any other energy source around the home will likely do a better job! 😂 But at least I showed it's not impossible, just horribly impractical.

@ba_charles

3 жыл бұрын

I had the idea of putting turbines at the end of Seattle's massive storm drains, but it looks like it would just flood the city.

@mrwess1927

3 жыл бұрын

@@QuintBUILDs impractical on small scale..... What if this was applied to a warehouse that is really big?

@donuteater3353

3 жыл бұрын

@@mrwess1927 It'd have to be the size of an aircaft carrier

@Dragonofshame

3 жыл бұрын

@@mrwess1927 impractical on a small scale, but on a large scale it works great. In fact it's my town's main source of electricity: hydro electric!

Interesting that this was uploaded two days ago, just got the text this morning! Glad to be one of the first to witness the next step on the project, though!

@CallaOrion

3 жыл бұрын

Could be it was uploaded two days ago in preparation for release today

@QuintBUILDs

3 жыл бұрын

@@CallaOrion bingo. It gives me one last chance to look it over before publishing. That's also when patrons get to watch it since they help fund the experiments.

The streams of this video will consume more energy than these things will generate in a million years

@QuintBUILDs

2 жыл бұрын

😂😜👍

Great Job! After this journey I was as excited as you were to see those blue lights! This was all something I had run through my own head over the years being from SE Louisiana and so often facing power outages after major storms. Especially the recent Hurricane Ida, we were without power for almost three weeks. It was a little disheartening to learn no more power could be produced from such a system. But all the knowledge I gained simply watching the process was invaluable. Thank you so much

Quint BUILDs: Finally after six years I can play flappy bird.

5:59, that scream 😂😂😂😂 I am still laughing

Nested experiments... Love it. And yes, thanks for following up on the rain gutter product along with providing the price paid.

One of my dreams is to have a completely off-the-grid DIY cabin as a getaway spot. Though I am a long away from that point in my life, videos like these make the idea of DIY renewable energy a reality!

ive really enjoyed watching this project, and even your youtube chops, develop over time. great job all around, sincerely.

Wow, all those efforts you go through. Hats off sir!

Just found this channel and this is a really cool project! This system is also a great example of the law of constraints!

Love watching you tinker around with stuff like this. If the overflow water seems wasted, you could add a large 'storage tray' somehow on the end of the gutter to try and capture a few extra gallons before overflowing. Then as the rain lessens, the 'storage tray' would drain back to the gutter to extend production time. And since your roof is inclined, how about adding a cleat/rail about halfway up to divert half the water to a similar setup that is higher? Higher overall head means although you'd have half the water, you'd get more than half the output from this second system. Or maybe divide the roof into thirds? Or fourths? Could do a whole cost-benefit of the optimal number of sections where each section benefits from slightly different available head. lol. Just kidding with these ideas, I know the capital cost of a second turbine would far outweigh things, but it's fun to speculate on paper. And I was glad to see the caption about the issue of 'peak power' capture. Wind machines have this problem as well. If you size them for the 'highest expected wind', they operate almost the entire year at far below capacity. Again, love the content and how well you present things.

I love this project, it seems like such an incredibly fun thing to tinker with

I really enjoy the format of your video this time! Keep up the good work!!

This project I've been following since you posted the first one! I keep thinking to my self what I would do if I was doing the same. Love watching these

Your dedication to the experiment is out of this world! Much respect to you, my good man👍

What, I've never thought about this potential energy being stored in your gutters. You are a genius. Will definitely utilize that energy the same way you do! THANK YOU VERY MUCH

I admire your persistence. Great video.

That was awesome! Very nice work.

The bit I really like here is somewhat understated, but applies to every kind of renewable energy solution: the fact that they're unstable and very interruptible, and so require some sort of long-term power storage to provide usable power (in usable quantities over sensible time). This is a very important point.

Loved it when you tried to catch that pine needle and it went screaming all the way down! Lol! 🤣

Such an enjoyable journey to watch, thanks for your content!

I am seeing your video and genuinely I am really impressed. Keep up the great work 👍👍👍

Youre underrated man! Youre videos are so informativ! And on a genius lvl love it

Your wife and neighbours must think you are bonkers! absolutely brilliant project.

That scream when the needle fell down really made me chuckle

this is actually a thing I loved seeing an update on

The effort you put into these videos is definitely inspiring

I had this idea a couple of days ago. Im happy someone with some bigger brains did it.

I've been waiting for 5 months, and now I get something amazing...

I really love your optimism and good humor!

Might need an overflow bucket with a bell siphon of it’s own… I’ve heard of bell siphons but never knew exactly how they worked. Thanks for the great explanation on how they work. Whoever thought up that idea must have blown their mind to see it actually work the way they had planned. Amazing!!!

Thanks for the text! Love the video!

Would a water storage container be more practical then a whole second overflow?

@KertaDrake

7 ай бұрын

Just putting a large tank on a few bricks, and linking it so it will drain into the main reservoir would work as long as you have some idea of what the maximum possible amount of rainfall could be in the area. It could still cause overflow issues if the tank is too small or an unusually large amount of rain occurs, however, so it would likely require some experimentation to determine how large a reservoir would be needed.

You should have all your gutters fill a water tank that is mounted at a height just 6" from the gutters. When the tank gets full then flow it through a turbine that is mounted 8' below. I think this would be optimal energy output.

@IngensViator

11 ай бұрын

That's .. genius. You don't touch the gutter, but can play around the water tank instead. No need to mess with cleaning much

This system is lacking a ram pump to store extra water for later usage 😁

@Scottx125Productions

2 жыл бұрын

That's what I was thinking. Not a great power source but if you had a large reservoir you could use it to supply extra power if solar energy is particularly low or draw is high.

@TangoFoxtrotWhiskey

2 жыл бұрын

I want to see this addition!

Wow almost 400k subs? Dude you deserve it! I think I subbed at 67k? Just remember seeing the air compressor video and I knew you would continue to make good content, always look forward to watching your videos! Keep it up!

You should totally invest in a webcam and continously stream your bell siphon and turbine! I'm invested in this project! Also, can you store the overflow in a tank and run it down to the turbine on demand? Using the power stored by the turbine to switch a solenoid valve to release the water in the tank. This is a great project!

This was the most awesome experiment I've seen on quite some time. Congratulations.

@QuintBUILDs

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

Awsome work, it seems and it is easy because of how you explain it!

Did you think about rainwater collection? I’m working on running my washing machine and watering my garden using collected rainwater!

@jasmijnariel

3 жыл бұрын

Exactly, i commented in the other videos... a big 50.000l tank above ground (the top of the tank leveled with the roof) and endless power all year round

@Dragonofshame

3 жыл бұрын

Illegal in many places, likely including where he lives.

@lucasimark7992

3 жыл бұрын

@@Dragonofshame interesting. Where I live you are unlimited if you only collect rain from your roof

@jasmijnariel

3 жыл бұрын

@@Dragonofshame ridiculious... just because its free! We run showers , toilets and laundry machines on it

@aphilipdent

2 жыл бұрын

@@jasmijnariel some areas consider it theft from the water company

Great work Quint! Thanks for making a video of your engineering project. I haven't gone through all the series, but have you considered a surge tank with an overflow rather than having to make all the work arounds on the actual gutter. Thanks for making the videos!

I'm glad you finally got a system automated and working. I know how that free power feels, I love charging my laptop and phone powerbank with the solar then using it free that night 😎

Love this. Great editing too.

Good job on the videos! Keep them coming!

The scream added at 6:00 strait had me dyin!🤣

I love this vid because I actually considered this gutter electricity concept in my mind space and here a video from someone who actually created it.

As a fellow Beavertonian, I've thought about these videos about this a lot over the past 2 years. 5 words: "Let Bernoulli be your friend." You're losing a substantial amount of energy by letting that water bounce off your wheel. Print an enclosure for the waterjet and flywheel. This allows water exiting the flywheel to pull water through the flywheel (just like your siphon).

Never seen anyone have so much fun with his rain gutters.

Hahahaha I love how much effort you've put into so little electricity! hahahahah love it. Keep it up!

Amazing video as usual keep recording

Awesome series of videos, as all your videos are!

I have waited this for long!!!! Love it

nice videos!, keep them coming, and great with the metrics !

I'm just smiling all the way through the videos...😁

Incredible quint, i know it took a couple months but it is an amazing piece of engineering

You ar SO excited! It's infectious.

Nice job, Quint. I was surprised when I got my text message. Lol but the link sent me right here to the video.

This is the greatest video - OMG so amazing

With your AC unit running in the snow it looks like your a grow op. lol. Thanks for the video. 👍

@Debbiebabe69

3 жыл бұрын

Or running a bit coin farm ;)

@realmaxpower

3 жыл бұрын

@@Debbiebabe69 I guess were from different neighborhoods. Lol. 😂

that twig scream got me

Congratulations with the first rain gutter charger!👍🇺🇸

In Cali we had channels that had screens, and they had water wheels that powered the scrapers to keep them clean lol

Very cool! now you just need tank to use as a revivor to save all that wasted power from the over flow :)

the voice that little pine needle made after falling in the tube is what got you a like.

That is one overengineered gutter. LOL It's amazing that all the passive features work so well. :)

I've found one awesome channel through this video!

Very cool way to end the series... or is it ever over? It is also great to see you have so many more subscribers. Keep pumping out the good work :-)

Love the sound effects

Very cool - now you’ve got me thinking about making one and connecting to a solar trickle charger I’d use to keep rechargeable batteries topped up - so I’m always charging for free - rain or shine! (And then next wind). That would be an interesting goal - see if you can create a system that is always generating renewable power when no one source is always available.

Boy I cannot wait to try this in the SW.

Wow you have a huge roof, its a perfect rain collector.

I use calibrated finger to cook rice.

Hello. I come from the Philippines where it rains 6 or more months of the year and I am desperate to encourage a better way to harness energy from all that water. Got the wild idea and tried searching until i found your videos only to be more confident it could work and thank for proving it does. I am not an engineer neither techy that is why half of your video I had to fast forward especially when it come to all those mathematical formulas... but hey your work is ultra inspiring !!!!!

This series inspired me to clean my gutters. They aren't horrible, but I need efficient flow.

love it. hope you didn't get demonetized for the end clips.

Nice video as always quint, hopefully more videos coming soon? 🌋

You had one great rain related bit of movie history there, "Singin in the rain, Gene Kelly".

5:57 oh my Jesus I was not expecting that lmao 🤣🤣🤣

You could make a large shallow reservoir that accepts only from the overflow and flows back through a lower hose with a one way valve. A ram pump would allow a higher reservoir but would only save a portion of the water.

You sir, has a great mind

This is what i call Satisfaction