1016 Washing Machine To Wind Turbine
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- Опубликовано: 27 авг 2024
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Great video. I've used 3 washing machine glass bowls from the doors to make port holes in my shed. They look awsome, everyone asks where I bought them from, and no one can guess what they were originally.
Awesome idea
"...And Thank You Very Much for Washing!" LOL :D
Dear Robert, find a loca streem and it may make a great water wheel gen .I love what you all do.💗🌠
Simple and easy. I have a few smart drive top loading washing machines with a direct drive, might just have to give this project ago. Thanks Rob for another brilliant take on simplicity.
Me too, the stainless steel drum looks perfect to be outside.
Would be good slightly changed and used as waterwheel based generator instead maybe?
A coneshaped impeller based on the logarithmic curve would make it a perfect water generator. You can find blueprint for this online if you have a 3d-printer
oh, and brilliant as usual. I wonder if that design would work as a waterwheel? I mean being a washing machine, all the bits are water Proof (bar the motor.) That might work in a small stream for more consistent generation than wind, if one were near a decent source with a fair flow. just a thought with the motor being a bit stiff to turn.
That is the same washing machine that I took to pieces. It only had one program working from time to time. Also, the door lock developed some problem. I plan to try this with the bits. Maybe cover each blade with some PVC riveted on to make it capture a bit more wind
Looks like it's going to take a tornado to turn it ,but maybe if you stack a couple of drums together it may work better.
I was too busy to get around to to my brushless motor today. Looking like a weekend job . Nice build for free mate
It would make a nice water wheel too...
i think hydro would be a better use for this, too.
RMS, truly one man's junk is another's treasure! Cheers!
LOVE It... and, I've said it before... your laughter is infectious!!! Thanks!! 😁👍🤣
My girlfriend NEVER sees what I see. "It's trash" she says. Potential is in the eye of the imagineer.
she probably has no ADHD which kicks in from time to time :D
Well, you must prove she is wrong 😁
@@Hellgazer I do regularly... When she let's me.
@James Cunliffe not at all. But i can get carried away with projects.
Found a direct drive today! Will following your guide!
Great idea but that bearing looks (and sounds) to be bad. Probably why it was thrown out in the first place. I'm a washer repair tech. Sometimes you can pop the cover out of the bearing to expose the little ball bearings and grease them, then pop the cover back in. Just a suggestion.
Great example for all of us! Noble effort!
Put 2 or 3 cilinder on top of eachother with a bearing on top also, less wind Needed ?
You can make a silent air compressor out of that refrigerator's compressor
That's exactly what I did with an old propane tank. Use it in the house
I made mine a vacuum pump for plyboard form shaping . Worked great
Door glass makes a reasonable salad bowl too !
the old man an the wind mill...
Nice it always gives me ideas watching your videos 👍keep up the good work
Gonna see a lot of these in the post-apocalypse world.
Nice....Love watching all your videos.
Great stuff Rob :)
Inspiration, just because, great job!
Hey Rob, direct drive washers are showing up in Canadian junk piles, and have been for the last few years now, just keep lookingm you'll find some real soon.
Absolutely what I was hoping for, and explained the changed upload order.
Looking out for updates (see my comment on the last upload).
Ps LOVE the giggles 😂
Is the drag coming from the belt tension or the motor it's self?
The right wind speed area and It's very appropriate.
That was my question, it seemed to have a lot of drag, motor or bearing?
Hi, how about trying to put your washing machine turbine in a 90 degree configuration with the round hole facing the wind and adding a box type funnel in front and facing the wind, where the funnel will create some type of compressed air and make your washing machine fan being used 360 degrees to produce centrifugal forces???... love all your ideas. Gilbert Rybicki from Montreal, Canada area.
At this point, people are probably leaving their old stuff around so you can play with it :)
These videos are heroic! Keep up the great work. I wonder which re-purposed motor would work best with bicycle and gearing? And which battery/capacitor combo to build the powerwall with.
Will the direct drive version of this, generate electricity, without needing to be re-winded? Also, can I attach larger plastic pieces to each fin to allow it to catch more wind, therefore, turning easier with less wind?
Love what you are doing and your character. My question is what could I do with Samsung Vacuum clear motor sorry not sure on the model, no bag dirt separates by design it is powerful motor
Perhaps we should be looking repairing this so it can be sold on
AWESOME my brother...!
aloha
those fridges- I'm wondering if one could turn a fridge into a stirling engine? like, the refrigeration cycle is so efficient at moving heat around, just by virtue of how they work, it seems like you could either integrate, or greatly improve the efficiency of a stirling engine and get useful work out of it beyond just refrigeration. Pondering it hard. I've got a janky AC unit, and an old mini fridge, but I'm not sure how to proceed. Seems like a couple ways to do it- one being to segregate the hot and cold sides of the coil on the hot and cold pistons of the engine, well insulated (so basically just extracting mechanical work from the efficiency of a heat pump- which is greater than that of burned fuel or resistive heating by a Lot as I currently understand it)
OR use the refrigerant concept as the working fluid of the engine, and exploiting heat pump high and low pressure geometry to more efficiently move the heat in the system. I dunno. That's been burning up my brain for a week, so if the idea struck you as worth exploring a vid on such a thing would be interesting. seems like it might make a "more bang for your buck generator".
In any case, I'd be interested to see what you could do with an old fridge, if you were of a mind to do so. (I love your "found and broken" model. I use the same for making jewelry, out of found and broken bits so it's a notion that's dear to me)
The "Lets Learn Something" channel is relatively new but has some videos in which he converts compressors into working engines.
@@synchro-dentally1965 think I ran across a few of his the other day. Definitely cool- though a different tack than I was pondering
You can use the fridge body as rain water Collector if u seal up holes.
That would work well today in this wind.
I've noticed there is a lot of resistance when rotating. That would be the belt tension. Not sure how this would perform.
so if you funnel air into it then it will turn with less air speed despite being stiffer
Please would you tell me Robert how you managed to get the drum free of the plastic surround. And how did you get the flywheel off too?
I have three of those drums and haven't worked out an easy way to remove the flywheel and plastic. I'm hoping to then turn them into fire pits for gardens. Thanx for any suggestions. I'm at a standstill. Oh, I have no angle grinder at the moment either. 🤔🤣
Very cool! 👍👍😊🙏
I have an idea. Turn the washing machine into a steam generator powered by an array of mirrors.
That's some lateral thinking!
Why not just connect the motor directly into the tub leaving out the fan belt and flywheel it would freely spin creating more power and add another motor to the system double the output.
Big fan of the channel, and will be joining the members channel soon, but I have a question about ordering some of your paint/ink. I am living in Germany and am wondering if in the wake of Brexit, if there are any issues about getting products delivered. I asked at the store two weeks ago, and still haven't gotten an answer.
This is amazing Robert, very good that you did this with no added parts but do you think you could do the same put with minimal tool usage? I don't have an angle grinder or a hack saw but was thinking maybe this could be done with a regular saw and a chizzle made from a nail that I hit with a rock for shaping fans?
You don't even have a hammer what are you going to do with the generator
I've got 3 old washers😂 so how many volts and mah did you get when you were turning the drum?
@James Cunliffe Indeed, the magic number is always the number of them that you have on hand. The same rule for gun caliber debates. :)
@James Cunliffe And if it won't work, you can use... The Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch.
To send it back to the trash... Adds to the fun...
@James Cunliffe I'll get right on it.. Lol
@James Cunliffe I've replied twice with some other quotes but the overlords at RUclips are censoring them...
@James Cunliffe It is beyond logical... The world is going crazy...
Not sure how to pm you but if you would like some DD motors I have plenty and happy to send some your way mate. Assuming the price of postage isn't more than the motor is worth. I'm in Australia. I'll look into postage later today.
lol you may get a couple of volts in a huricane
Can you get that meter so we can see it too ?
Can I ask you question,please
Help me
hey Robert like your vids...can you do something on a dc speed controller for something like a 12v starter motor for a go kart or scooter plz
should've used calgon
Could swap the pulleys Bob.
I have 3 old Strimmers man....
What to do with them any ideas?
I seen a couple while i walk the dog also... Feel greedy by taking any more lol
Clean air smells funny
My washer just died on me I was gonna make a cement mixer but I need more power creation thanks for idea
It actually cost you time, electrical energy to cut...
Hidden steps 🤔🙄🥺
So you built a piece of junk that doesn't work... Just go to the extra effort and make it generate reasonable power. It's not a wind turbine if you don't show it in action and working and make it better. That's what inspires people to start thinking like you do and doing it themselves.
muh-hah-hahahaa
I would rather get stuck in the washing machine thanks.
Stuck in or stuck with? Just a thought.
"science project" Well you'll get an F from me. Since its not spinning in the wind and you've made no attempt to prove efficiency. Filling your yard with trash is not Science. Maybe if no man had ever experienced flight would it be ok to stand around your backyard flapping your arms with cardboard attached.