Low Head Water Turbine -Free Build Tutorial
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Tutorial: opensourcelowtech.org/water_t...
This free and open source turbine can be built for half the cost of a 120 watt solar panel, and will produce about ten times the power (5kWh with 3m drop and 35 l/s flow) per day. It can be plugged into any appropriate waterway without the need for earthworks, and uses only basic off the shelf and recycled materials, and simple hand tools.
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I have followed your channel for some time and I know that this is the result of many years of work, with a lot of challenges along the way to put it mildly! To open source the design with such a professional video is staggeringly impressive. This is precisely the attitude that will save this world from going down the pan for good. Respect and thanks to you! 👍🙏💚
@OpenSourceLowTech
Жыл бұрын
Thanks!
@yarudin7961
4 ай бұрын
😮
@shanelipe2552
Ай бұрын
Exactly.
@enshawellness
10 күн бұрын
I second the motion 🙏🌟🙏🌟🙏🌟🙏
It was the ending which made everything awesome
@NutScrewGamer
Жыл бұрын
I thought this was computerphile
Possibly the best use of 3D for an elearning I have ever seen.
@OpenSourceLowTech
9 ай бұрын
Thanks, glad it turned out useful.
Thank you for sharing! We need this kind of togetherness on the planet
Wow, this is incredible...not just the concept but how everything is put together. 👏👏👏
Awesome video. I've seen the earlier iterations and really like all the small but genius improvements on the design.
Thank you so much from France !! You are a very good person to do this
That was brilliant and beautiful to watch!!
Congrats to the person who made this video. Very cool instructions. Good stuff!
Great video. I’m looking forward to trying to build this!
This really is something valuable, thanks and for sharing the tutorial, and congratulations for the work and effort, it will help a lot of people.
Phenomenal, need more ppl like you... All the best.
What a nice video, incredible approach for step by step explanation, keep up the good job!)
Very well done. Great animation. Thank You.
I waited for it, and it's better that I was expecting for. Thank you so much !!
@OpenSourceLowTech
Жыл бұрын
Glad you liked it, cheers.
Very cool! I’ve been interested in the project’s progress since finding you a couple/few years ago. This is super helpful.
@OpenSourceLowTech
Жыл бұрын
Glad to hear it.
A high quality, well-made video 👏
Great detailed instructions! Enjoy your videos immensely!
@OpenSourceLowTech
Жыл бұрын
Thanks.
My dog loved this.
Wow this is easy to follow along. Thanks again for doing this.
While the chances of me having somewhere to make use of a turbine approach zero I can see how incredibly valuable this video is, very smart placing the electrical part out of the water via a fan and shaft enabling it to be built with cheap easily found parts. Excellent video, anyone can quickly grasp what is involved, great choice in background music as well :)
@rentisme
11 ай бұрын
Well it's not smart, it's just common sense, but I get your message
@jedics1
11 ай бұрын
@@rentisme Smart ideas are usually percieved as common sense after the first person actualises it into the real world. If it was common sense then plenty of others would have done it already instead of trying to make an electrical component water tight and put it underwater :)
Thank you for this video. It is so clear and easy to follow. It was a joy to watch. I wish all construction videos were made like this, a joy to watch.
@elfIbeatz
7 ай бұрын
Fully agree!
@rogerunderhill4267
15 күн бұрын
A real joy!😊
wonderful work as usual
Thanks a lot for sharing your knowledge ! :)
Thank you so much producers.
I have been waiting for this video for quite some time..THANK YOU!!!
@OpenSourceLowTech
Жыл бұрын
Thanks
Excellent video. Thanks so much for your good work.
Well done sir. Love it.
Sweet plans! Thanks!
Amazing work.
This is mesmerizing to watch 😮
Phenomenal engineering and animation skills! Kudos!
@OpenSourceLowTech
Жыл бұрын
Thanks
@cristianguerra1617
10 ай бұрын
@@OpenSourceLowTech Assuming i have a potent enough stream, if I need more power output, can I put say 3 or more of these in the same stream and get a consistent output of 1.5kw
Great job Daniel 👍👍👍
A lot of thanks, well done m8!
Impressive animation. Thanks
That animation was awesome! Thanks
Well done! Keep it up!
Very good video and a lot of work! Thank you!
@OpenSourceLowTech
Жыл бұрын
Thanks!
Very relaxing and informative and motivational - all in 1!😊
All instructional videos should be shown this way ,
Lovely Build, Beautiful Video... very professioanl. Thank you
Hi, that was fantastic animation mate! nice one! take care and have a great day!
Very well done.Thank you for your hard work.
Thank you. Very nicely done.
@OpenSourceLowTech
2 ай бұрын
Thanks.
Stunning Video!
I was more impressed with the animations. Very clever, got me to watch the whole vid.
I have also used plastic cutting boards for years for various other purposes, the opening shot showing one being hole sawed up cracked me up!
I am just shocked by the detail of that animation, well done
Nice video, thanks for sharing it :)
Brilliant concept. Beautiful animation.
@OpenSourceLowTech
5 ай бұрын
Thanks.
Fantastic music, great graphics…thanks for putting this together…you’re getting a subscription from me!
Nicely done!
@OpenSourceLowTech
Жыл бұрын
Cheers Geert, fair bit of you guys' help in this.
Wow, those animations are sooooooo good.
@OpenSourceLowTech
8 ай бұрын
Thanks
What a wonderful video
Thank you for your amazing video here. Really incredible graphics and easily understandable for a lay person like myself
@OpenSourceLowTech
2 ай бұрын
Thanks
Great animation.
Well, it's been much requested and a long time coming, but the full step by step build tutorial for the siphon hydro turbine is finally finished. I hope you find it useful, and if so please share it to any groups, forums, FB pages, subreddits, email lists etc that you think may find it interesting. I don't get a lot of views from the algorithm, so it's going to mostly come down to community reach and word of mouth to get this in front of those it'd hopefully benefit. Full step by step tutorial text: opensourcelowtech.org/water_turbine.html And thanks to all of you for the sustained impatience in this finally getting done, it's been great to see how many people are keen to start making and using this technology. Any questions email me, or post them here and I'll make sure to be of help as I'm able. Cheers all. ~Daniel
@kolishedward4006
Жыл бұрын
Hi Daniel, thank you for sharing your ideas view this medium. I hope to build a replica of your water turbine and share it with you. Please provide me your email so I can contact you, thank you and God bless you all the way from Papua New Guinea!
@OpenSourceLowTech
Жыл бұрын
@@kolishedward4006 Glad to hear it. opensourcelowtech.org (at) gmail .com
@eg6tec
Жыл бұрын
Thank you brother, many good ideas here I can’t wait to make mine for our moulin 🤙
@SirPrancelot1
Жыл бұрын
Thank you for your content. Outstanding.
@andrewsmithmilan1780
Жыл бұрын
@@OpenSourceLowTech is it possible to get a materials list? This video really only gives an idea of what's possible, otherwise. Great idea tho.
sounds terrific ^^
Thank you for the video
The best video ever!
Yeah man , thank you so much ! I'have made one and it's work . I Will try to put three of them along the pipe. Good Luck to you
@OpenSourceLowTech
Жыл бұрын
Details, data, and video?
@brumesanglante
Жыл бұрын
Ok i contact you by mail
I've subbed this channel for a long time and am always impressed. You've outdone yourself his time. 👍
@OpenSourceLowTech
Жыл бұрын
Good to hear, thanks.
Great video
Great Video!
@OpenSourceLowTech
Жыл бұрын
Thanks, was a bit of work but happy with how it turned out.
Awesome. Congrats, you'we done great work! I think this could also be used as a jet unit for a boat or ski jet. It just needs a reduction in the output to increase pressure.
awesome video. such graphics my god
Thankyou! In Asia trying to come up with micro hydro ideas for IDPS and refugees and medical clinics. solar does not work well in rainy season. Not sure I can replicate this but the success is encouraging.
@OpenSourceLowTech
3 ай бұрын
Sounds good, what concerns do you have about the building process?
Brilliant ! one for the algorithm.
This is crazy awesome 😂
Thank you.
brilliant! ❤🎉
Nice work, bro 😊)
Amazing ❤❤❤
Pretty chill music
this is an awesome Video! Everything shown super clear and without the need of reading. Wich is good for a world wide usage.
@OpenSourceLowTech
2 ай бұрын
Cheers
this is an awesome concept. I will attempt and probably fail at making it.
@OpenSourceLowTech
10 ай бұрын
Any questions let me know.
omg finally done
Nice video!
@OpenSourceLowTech
Жыл бұрын
Cheers!
awesome idea! a slight decrease in pipe size and a cone on the fan would slightly improve performance, and adding another prop should add more torque, but may reduce overall speed, these are the projects that change the world, little by little.. great stuff..
@OpenSourceLowTech
Жыл бұрын
Being a momentum turbine generally the bigger the pipes the better because more flow, but there is a constriction point across the impeller which does up the revs and therefor voltage, while hopefully not reducing the overall flow to much and therefor torque and amps. One of the main things I'll be testing with the 3D printed impellers is kind of reversing the current situation of that constriction coming in to meet the smaller impeller, so that instead the hub of the impeller is larger and the blades (whichever shape turns out to be most efficient) are at a larger radius to meet the pipe wall. That should hopefully mean more torque from the runner with no reduction of flow. But we'll see what happens in reality. Two spaced impellers on the one shaft is also an option and may well increase overall power, yeah.
@ashtontechhelp
Жыл бұрын
@@OpenSourceLowTech if you want two impellers then you will need a static blade that turns the water the other way in between the two spinning impellers. That is how a jet engine works. Otherwise you get no additional power. kzread.info/dash/bejne/fmZouchphs-6dZM.html
@OpenSourceLowTech
Жыл бұрын
Yeah, I'll also be experimenting with stators, vectorisers, and the like.
Sweet !
Awesome animation👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
@OpenSourceLowTech
9 ай бұрын
Thanks
So Excited for this! Do we / can we create a community map of places where it may be suitable to install this?
Hi Daniel. Thank you soooo much for sharing this tutorial. I am a woman in Ireland rural living and am going to try this as i have a small river on my land. Hopefully it will be a success. Can you show me how to connect this up to store and use electricity for my mobile home if poss. I think you are awesome helping people to source their own electricity and everything else you do around the world. We need more people in the world like you ❤❤❤😊😊😊
@OpenSourceLowTech
2 ай бұрын
Glad to hear it. The electrical side of things will depend on your specifics, but if you're on FB post here about it and we'll help out as best we can: facebook.com/groups/windturbinemakers
Beautiful animation. You're easily good enough to be doing that professionally FYI
@OpenSourceLowTech
Жыл бұрын
Thanks
Superbe graphics!
I would like to bulid this one. Just curious to know - here only one alternator has been used. Can we put additional alternators making some changes? And also the alternator and turbine specifications are not mentioned.
I like how he must've made several iterations of this design and thought 'no, I can make it cheaper'
@OpenSourceLowTech
11 ай бұрын
This one I sort of chanced into more or less the current configuration from the start, but usually these things are iterated as you say, yes.
Daniel, thank you for the link, looks great and pretty straight forward to build. I have a fast flowing stream that I could use, so I should be able to generate good power. At 35 l/s flow does it generate 5kwh per day or hour? Also do you have a recommendation for an inverter that can be used.
@OpenSourceLowTech
Жыл бұрын
How meters drop over how much horizontal? I've been using wheels from hoverboards / balance boards / eScooters / Segways and they're more or less ideal. Motorbike alternators are probably the best option for lower resource environments but I've not tried it directly yet other than the very first prototype in Guatemala, but that was a very different configuration.
nice
Question: adding a Second, or Additional Impellers / Fans, to capture more Energy, has that been considered?
What software did you use to make that animation? It's explained very nicely, good!! And thanks for sharing!!
very nice!!! yes but I would at moment 1.31 turn around these bolds around as they might get lost inside the tube
@OpenSourceLowTech
Жыл бұрын
Facing out is also an option, yes.
Well-Done
@OpenSourceLowTech
Жыл бұрын
Thanks.
Highly underrated work
Это очень круто !!! и доступно !!!
Obrigado
Hello Daniel amazing vidéo it gives a very good understanding. I’m considering this year adapting something like this at the back of my boat to generate power from the sailing speed. My question is how do you plug this onto batteries, any charger contoler, fuse, to make sure you don’t overcharge in case of high speed ? Thanks again for all the work and the sharing.
@lohikarhu734
Жыл бұрын
I wonder if you could adapt. A solar charger system for this? They are designed to optimize battery charging over a range of input voltages, and can be bought for small 12 V or 24 V systems? Also, there are some Inexpensive "buck-boost" converters available, that allow you to set an output voltage, and will automatically convert a wide range of input voltages to your selected output voltage...
I'm very interested in seeing results of setting something like this up maybe beefier in conjuction with a mechanical, ram pump. And wired up in series🤔 4:37. For a homestead. That's supplied off the rampump, through a Charcoal & sand filter...
Beautiful 3D animation work, may I ask what program did you use to create this?
@OpenSourceLowTech
Жыл бұрын
Thanks. Modelled in Rhino, animated etc in Maya, rendered with Arnold. AfterFX and Premiere to compile.
@MIdaffy502
Жыл бұрын
@@OpenSourceLowTech Thank you for responding.
Grazie.