Alternate Power System Water Wheel, Wind Mill, Solar Pannel
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- Опубликовано: 28 авг 2024
- Here is my hobby alternate power system mostly for fun but it is useful if the power is off. I suppose it saves me a few bucks a month but I still give the power company about $80 a month. I guess I am fascinated with power generation.
1980s solar panels... tracker, Edison batteries, water and wind power... the all in one diy coolest system I have ever seen.
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The pond never freezes but the waterwheel will build up ice because of the water splattering. There are times during the year that I will have to shut it down because of ice build up. If that happens this year I will put up a video of it. Thanks for watching.
What's your maintenance schedule? How often do you check everything? Daily, weekly, monthly, yearly? Is that all on your checklist? I admire that you attempted to use all electro-mechanical devices for reliability/longevity. You are living the dream that I have - to one day have a home which has a multi-faceted approach to home power generation. I like that you consider it a hobby, yet it could easily be modified to become more than that, if the need arises. If you could make upgrades, what would be your first focus? Batteries? It would be fun to create a hydro-battery system with a tank on the hill and a regenerative pump system as that would give you a certain amount of backup power to have on hand - just in case. One more facet or layer to your onion approach of home power generation. All in all, well done. Well done.
Impressive! Thanks for sharing.
This is awesome! I'd love to set up something like this. Which issue of Popular Mechanics? This is really awesome. I'm going to have to look for the issue. Was this an old issue or a recent one? This is pretty amazing!
I'm wondering if there isn't a way yo increase your electricity coming from the wheel?
An old school wind mill would be a fun project to generate electricity (& perhaps a real working mill) would be great too!
Nice work!
@@CarolReidCA Old issue 1946 I think. I can't find mine so not positive. Check out some of my latest videos you will see some improvements in output. Thanks for watching and commenting.
Thank you so much for the insight. Maybe this might work for the freezing problem. ruclips.net/video/uxPdPpi5W4o/видео.html 👍
This is just more inspiration to find some land with a decent creek on it to do one of these when I retire. Great video!
i always wanted to set up a water ram pump on a creek never had a creek that flowed all the time
i was thinking the exact same thing
@Leonel Ray totally random, and useful info all the same 🤔🤣
@@TheNinja691 no its a scam
Sir you certainly have a beautiful place...Peaceful, idyllic, beautiful view! You can take a lot of pride in your accomplishments!
I could sit there all day looking at your view and that water wheel!
Well I would say " Should be honored to have such a place", as pride blinds us to correction and is the seed from which all that is evil grows. which ever way you respond to my comment will prove what i said here.
@@justintothetruth get over yourself.. this is RUclips !
@@88njtrigg88 obviously that message was not for you. You have no idea how over myself I am.
Each component is pretty simple. But the overall care with which your system has come together is impressive. Then, when you show us your wiring closet, and I see how carefully all of the controllers and everything are wired, it all comes together.
Huge respect, sir. Your hard work has accomplished quite a lot.
Thanks
Well, we know 1 guy's ready for when the grid goes down.
Yeah....not really. He doesn't even produce enough power to keep a refrigerator powered. Then again, he did say he had a generator, and he could probably run for a bit off the battery.
I think he would need a small home nuclear plant for that :)
I literally drove past your place 50 times over the winter. One of our logging crews is working up the hill from you. I've been so curious about your setup. Thanks for the video.
haha that's awesome!
"Heya I guess that's about it? " Kevin are you kidding me? You have worked out a complete and functional system. It's really a fantastic set up and I mean that, your control panel is wired nice and clean. Every part coming in and going out is identifiable and put together with thought. And tapping 3 different supplies of energy I'm surprised the power company is not paying you every month. Let me repeat a couple of things that people have told me, maybe they will be useful to you.
1. We have big windmills here in California, a few have been wrecks (neglect is my guess) and given them all a bad wrap. Vertical units are the big craze now, suppose to be safer and produce better.
2. In your wheel house if you set up the 42" wheel with the 2nd belt turning an 8" pulley, turning a 30" pulley, that turns a 4" pulley mounted center shaft. You would have high speed rotation that would run 2 washing machine motors that have been converted. The man that showed me this said 5 years problem free, I want to say 2400 or 2700 rpm. You'll want to double check the numbers, I think their right but it's been a while and I don't want to mess you up.
Anyway it's all 2nd hand but hope it helps.
Wow! This video gets more and more impressive as it goes on. Beautiful location you're in there too. Thanks.
Lots of impressive ingenuity going on there! Nicely done all around!
This is a very well thought out combination of systems...my hat off to you Sir!
The water wheel house is so cute with its vintage style and the peacefull rythme it operates. Not only it's usefull but it add a lot of charm to the view. I have seen a lot of turbine houses and, mein Got, it's so loud and turbulent it always ruins the scenery.
And the idea to use an antenna tracker for solar tracking is realy great too.
Also the teenage sign up there is very appropriate even if it's not at the best place to be seen by the intended audience I am afraid.
absolutely blown away by your setup. You're so humble about such a clean, safe, well managed setup. all self done which really shows your large skill set. Thank you for taking the time to share your work with us.
I searched for too long to find this vid again.awssome set up!
A very productive hobby. The best type of hobbies are productive ones.
Have to do something after having a life of designing, assembling, operating and maintaining nuclear, coal and hydro power plants. You did/do a FINE job! Thanks for the tour and the rock maple bearings are SWEET! GBWYou!
Feeling envious. I have the only plot on the west coast of Scotland without a stream!🤨. I love the intelligent use of old and new technology to conjure the most effective system. Much respect.
Awesome, thanks for sharing. I'm impressed that water wheel lasted 20 years! Great job.
Thank you!
Thirty-one years!
@@samwhittemore5614 Oh. Even more impressive then. :)
I never would have thought wood could be used as aa bearing surface.
Same, but then I remembered that before the industrial revolution, it was wood.
It also was and sometimes is still used as a seal on prop shafts. Water acted as a lube to prevent wear. It wasn't Rock Maple though, it was Lignum Vitae.
Lignum vitae ('pokhout') has been used for centuries for all sorts of mechanical applications. It's not only very tough, it's also self-lubricating.
www.wood-database.com/lignum-vitae/ - "Unfortunately, Lignum Vitae has been exploited to the brink of extinction, and is now an endangered species. Verawood-a related wood species with similar working properties and characteristics-is commonly used as a substitute, and is sometimes called Argentine Lignum Vitae."
www.wood-database.com/verawood/
@@samvalentine3206 Very true for the species that was the best. But there are a few others that are still available.
Very elaborate and well designed. I hope you work with alternative power systems. We need people like you helping us. Thank you for sharing with all of us.
Glad you enjoyed the video. Been a lot of changes since video was made.
Beautiful!..man when you talk about someday owning that little piece of heaven...I need look no further. Thank you for sharing this video.
WOW! You have done a TON of work with your electrical system! Integrating all the different technologies and getting them to play together is quite a feet!
Your work putting everything together is very nice! The panels and the wiring is top notch!
Thank you for taking us on a detailed tour!
As an electrician I adore your set-up
Everybody needs a hobby, and yours is so useful! Very interesting setup.
Like the panoramic view from the roof. Very interesting to see so many basic things put to good use and working together.
very nice construction many thanks for sharing wooden bearing blocks seems to be the right choice and unlike metal you can make a set in advance hang them on the wall of the gen shed with the appropriate tool set and what when they fail its a 10 minute job to swap out the old for new.
Really cool place and wheel. great video. Who the hell are the 70 people that gave it a thumbs down ? What kind of d bag would do such a thing?
you are an inspiration to us all, thanks Kevin
Thanks for sharing Kevin. I really appreciate the detail you go into for each component of your energy generation system.
Loved the water wheel.. My dad would have loved seeing this.. Great and simple bearings ( the simple ideas, always the best , as he said often!) Thanks for the vid..
Awesome. Also clothes lines work really well for drying out the laundry.
You have built, what has been, a lifelong dream of mine.
I am proud for you, of you and wish I could get to know you.
I'd sit and listen to (ask LOTS of questions about) everything you might teach me for as long as I could.
For now, I just hope you live a VERY long time... and enjoy.
Thank you Sir.
Check out Kris Harbour he has a YT channel about natural building but also set up his own hydro, wind & solar power
You, sir are a genius, and it would be true pleasure to work with you. I could learn so very much. Nice job, and your home is beautiful!
Awesome setup, great information. Love any water powered stuff, even at low outputs it's usually a constant output. Wind and solar too ... So jealous. I'm a electrician, did some school for wind turbine tech, have done about a dozen solar installs at work. Solar stuff on the roof matched the grids waveform for grid tie.
that sir is why i always try to talk to our older generation about anything the ole guy told you what to make the blocks and why they work copared towhat you where doing, wood make enough friction to make grease flow or move about the steel bearings were so smooth made no friction to distribute grease love my old timers
Very simple and impressive instillation. Well done. Enjoy your place and you electric water mill.
Using formed plastic with steel wear bands on the leading edge for the wheel buckets is nicely done.
I Don't believe what I just watched. You are an inspiration to this 66 year old fart. I am going to get off my fat ---ss and going to try and do something to help lower my electric bill. Thanks so much for posting this and for inspiring me with your wisdom and engineering. May GOD BLESS!!
Hi Kevin.
You have a great set-up. I have not watched all your videos yet, but your timers on the solar array struck a chord in me.
A few years back I was instructing PLC's and other Industrial Electronics courses. They threw me a little curve by giving me a Green Energy Basics course that someone had written up but had never taught apparently. The students and I whizzed through the course as laid out and we had some slack time. So, I introduced these electronics students (Not industrial electronics) to the PLC. We had a lot of fun learning basic PLC's. Then I challenged them: I told them that I had a solar panel array on a Rotating Device similar to yours. I wanted them to design a device that would keep the main array always pointing at the sun no matter in which direction it was at. As part of the elements I had purchased for the class, I obtained a dozen solar powered walk lights that you just shove into the ground and they light up at night. After brain-storming the project, the devices available and using the plc, they came up with the idea of using two small solar panels (I will call these the Solar Sensors) from the lights (about 2 inches by 2 inches) as sun tracking sensors. As they moved a flashlight in an arc aimed at the solar sensor from left to right and back again, they were able to detect a difference in output from the solar cell. When the light was straight on it had the highest output and it went down as they moved right or left. They then mounted the two solar sensors on the edges of the actual solar array. By mounting the sensors at a slight inward angle, they found that they always had a slight signal difference between the two sensors unless the "sun" or flashlight was aimed directly at the Solar Array, which meant it was at a slight angle to each Solar Sensor. If the sun moved to the right, the left Solar Sensor would have a greater output and the right would be lower. By feeding this into a comparator function on the PLC 1000 (cost about $150 on e-bay), an output either plus or minus would power a DC motor that turned the Solar Array/Solar Sensors slightly towards the direction that equalized the output of the two sensors. It took them awhile to figure how to program the comparator function and the output needed for the DC motor. It was so much fun for them that a few stayed several hours after class each day to get it right. But they finally got it with some prompting, and it worked like a champ when we tested it on a sunny day. They all received an A for the class because of the interest and the effort they put into this "final" project.
I am looking forward to the rest of your videos - thank you very much for them.
Awesome job! You have given me a bunch of ideas for my homestead journey. Thanks
So cool!!! Nice craftsmanship.
👍 Danke fürs Hochladen!
👍 Thanks for uploading!
👍 Very good and beautiful, thank you!
👍 Sehr gut und schön, danke!
This is my first look at your site. Hey, thanks for showing us around, I'm retired now from an electronics field in the Uk. If I drove past your house I would have been curious to know more but of course, haha, wouldn't have knocked your door, just drove on past
And not one 3D printer. Good work. Nice and neat.
Lovely place and great mixed off grid power system! Good work 👍
This man is who we should all aspire to be like.
Absolutely amazing. Thank you for sharing this.
Very impressive hobby! That spring has an impressive output.
These are some of the best ideas I’ve seen and a lot more that I thought of but I like what you can do just takes a little money to get all the stuff you need right location for starters
Throw a small bale of barley straw into your pond, It should kill the algae ;) nice work Sir. The waterwheel sound reminds me of a steam train :)
Didn't know that about barley straw's algae killing tendencies. That's what I love about this place - one can learn more from the comments and posts of others as they chime in to help. Thanks for that tidbit of info which no doubt will help someone - only if they look! 👍
Really like that waterwheel setup.
Nice setup u have there. When I grow up I'll have those too
fantastic setup
Great video brother thank you for sharing i have a 8 foot drop in my creek it is time to dig a mill pond
You can just get a commercially available micro-hydro turbine ready made. I understand they work with as little as a 24" head, you should be set.
@@KelikakuCoutin thank you i will look into it
this is a really well built system. I am glad to see you shut off your inverters when your generator is going. there is a way to make them work together but you will need a different inverter
Just found your channel, That teenagers sign I haven't seen in a number of years. Priceless ! Amazing accomplishment on your power setup, Subscribed!
Nice setup very interesting I love the water well.
Awesome video. My hope one day is to live off grid with a creek on my property and make one of these!! Currently live off grid in a converted cargo trailer with solar
Absolutely amazing Kevin! What a great hobby and some skills can do.
Never seen anything like this before, even not on RUclips😉 Thank you for sharing this 💧 ☀🌦 ⚡👌
Thank you for sharing your setup. Definitely awakened a bug in me to start alternative power hobby.
A lot of very ingenious ideas going on here nice setup.
Very nice place, and quite the hobby! I enjoyed your power generation diversity. Very impressive.
I like your setup there. My house is solar powered and I use the utility as a backup. I also have two generators, one gas and one diesel, just in case. Love the waterwheel. I have a spot on a creek that runs most of the time and was thinking of doing something similar with the flow in the creek. It is not a navigatible waterway and I own the land on both sides of it, so maybe one day I'll get a hydroelectric setup similar to yours.
Excellent! An inspiring video. Thank you very much.
Greetings from New Zealand, well done and keep up the great work !!
Like your message to teenagers, Kevin!
“Get out and go find yourself a job!” 👍
Beautiful setup. Thanks for sharing.
Brilliant set up you have there. Great video
You seem to be a Mr Scientist. Thank you for sharing your art work.
Beautiful piece of property turned into a giant lawn
nice setup. yes, a lot of thought went into all you have. looks great. thanks for sharing
I believe every house hold can make a little power that people don't have to be totally dependent on power companies and then possibly we don't have to worry about power outages.🤔😉
add some UV lights, under guards so you don't damage anyone's eyes, and you can keep the algae/growth off all those parts. Lots of pond filter systems do that for the barrel roller microscreens to keep them from clogging up due to growth.
That's an excellent idea. Self-cleaning sluice and water wheel...
Guys like this are not considered geniuses. But they are.
Great creations Kevin, inspiring work.
Hi Kevin, I'm delighted you've shared your hobby projects. I've been researching and collecting components to establish all 3 power alternatives on my new place where I'm currently off grid but currently depend on a small fuel generator.
Your video was very helpful and inspirational. Thanks for sharing 🌟
Opps meant Poppa John
Cool, thanks
always wanted to do something similar like this, maybe always run my lights off a windmill or something, but it gets a little pricey when you go into getting the stuff, it would also be a bit of a pain to rewire the panel to isolate the circuits. but i never stop toying with the idea of it
This is just brilliant, I wish I had time for this. I have all ways thought a water would be cool.
Absolutely genius.
I'd like to see the saw you cut that 1/4 plate with! Great vid, inspirational stuff, thanks Kevin.
well that's slick as hell! Love the overly heavy crank too LOL :D
Nice wooden pillow blocks.
in a factory I where I worked at one time we had a machine that had slide rails for a conveyor and they were made of steel and they wore out all the time so we replaced them with uhmw that's ultra high molecular polyethylene and with a drop oil on there and they never wore out.
🤣🤣I love it! You have more safety systems and other waterways than a normal dam
Absolutely fascinating Kevin, alternative power has always been an interest of mine, would love to have a water supply for a waterwheel, currently setting up solar panels on my garage roof for power, regards Doc Cox.
Neat! Thanks for sharing, subscribed!🇺🇲👍🇺🇲
Thanks for the sub!
I have one heck of a spring at my house, but your spring is impressive. It makes mine look like a trickle.
I have to say this is pretty cool, good job to who ever built this set up
I would think a great set up for a Tesla. Awesome work. Loved it.
You are an amazing person for doing all this work! Nice job.
I have duel wind and solar...waterwheel not practical being so far north for me, but yours delivers a very respectable consistant power output! Like your setup, well done! cheers from northern BC, Canada
Wow, thanks!
You are a genius! I'd like to be living next to you when the public power systems all fail. Sooner or later, we'll all be like Texas because the US infrastructure is not being kept up. Too much money going overseas for war, nothing left for the home front. Keep up your 'hobby' !!
Nice land! Awesome setup! Lots of potential there.
Thank you for the tour.
12.9 volts at 3.66 amps on the waterwheel -- 48 watts! That's 1.152 kWh per day. At my electrical rates of about $0.12 per kWh, that's about $0.136 per day of electricity, $4.14 per month, $49.67 per year. Seems like a lot of work and equipment and maintenance to save $50 per year. Then again, it's a hobby, so any return is great! :-) I enjoy watching your hobby.
You are a genius.
Cool set up 😎
I see so much potential in your setup. Your really close to being off grid. Nice place to tinker with.
Thanks 👍
“Your” is not the same as “you are”.
Did you mean “You’re” ?
Very Impressive set up.
Awesome system. Great job on all of it.
Love That Teenager Sign. Got to get me one!
Very nice stuff, well done