for some top info on the turbine check kris harbour natural living, from what i saw in his experiments with optimizing such a generator the most serious "flaw" might be the material choice, metal is much more durable and the plastics from nozzle and scoops will get reduced into micro plastics in the water and cause serious contamination.. also horizontal setup makes for a batter drainage so the splashing water doesn't create unwanted drag slowing the turbine.. sorry for the lengthy remarks, at least you guys are doing it, trying and working towards a bright future in what looks like a very cool and wild place in nature... cheers and keep at it, all the best to you!!!

@kdenyer1

7 күн бұрын

Good idea to. Prototype with plastic but as others have mentioned I would monitor for brake down of the plastic into micro-plastics.😊

@vale.do.salgueiro

14 сағат бұрын

Thanks for the great suggestions, will experiment more with this wheel and try to learn what works best for our set up. Some time will consider to get a metal version!

Great work!!!

It would be interesting to see how much difference it would make to mount the wheel horizontally with a less turbulent exit. I didn’t get the details of the pump up to the house but seems like a ram pump might work that would get rid of the necessity for electricity.

Serious stupid to house a Pelton-wheel in such a small box. Always mount the wheel horisontal, not vertical, so the "used" water does,nt hit the wheel and slows it down. Cheers from Sweden,, 🍻😎👍‍

What a beautiful place! 💚

If you increase the size of the hole the mass flow rate is not going to increase...it's always the same, because of the mass conservation law, greater area means lower exit speed but always the same mfr

@vale.do.salgueiro

13 сағат бұрын

Well probably you are right in theory, I can tell you though, that the generated power increased significantly when we increased the diameter of the opening. Probably the opening initially was simply too small. When the opening is fully closed, you get no water flowing, right? When the opening is a hair thin, then you will get some water sprinkling out, but it will not be as much as when the opening is the diameter of the pipe. So probably we were in this regime where the whole was almost "closed" in comparison to the pipe diameter and increasing the nozzle diameter helped quite a bit to reduce friction.

@mp7986

12 сағат бұрын

@@vale.do.salgueiro yes for sure there is a range of diameters in which the viscosity effect on the walls that appears as friction is predominant, what you say makes perfectly sense, thanks for sharing this example🤙

Looks fantastic 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

Love your work!

And a back up water reservoir. And the first can be a sediment settling pond.

We waited very long But it is worth it Thx

@HannaZiadeh

11 сағат бұрын

I hope to see some work on the house. All the best

@HannaZiadeh

11 сағат бұрын

Try to activate the Thank you function so we your fans can buy you some coffee

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