4 hours ago, HandyDan said:

How do you control the speed when the wind is strong?

I don't ... I just have a  Constant Current Voltage Regulator after my Permanent magnet alternator generator.

5 hours ago, Woodbutcherbynight said:

Well this looks interesting care to tell us how this one works.  How much electricity does it produce?

 

If you look at the picture you can see a very large ring sprocket. That sprocket runs the generator. In in the middle of moving it right now or I would shot some more pictures of the setup. I only had a 1-1/2 water line running to it and you would not believe the power you can get with that small line. That wheel could easy supply enough power to run your whole house if you had a bigger line. Winter time chooses to be a challenge.

 

 

4 hours ago, Kevin Beitz said:

If you look at the picture you can see a very large ring sprocket. That sprocket runs the generator. In in the middle of moving it right now or I would shot some more pictures of the setup. I only had a 1-1/2 water line running to it and you would not believe the power you can get with that small line. That wheel could easy supply enough power to run your whole house if you had a bigger line. Winter time chooses to be a challenge.

 

 

Yeah that ice kinda put that plan on hold.. Very cool though. You are experimenting and trying. Most just yak about it.

32 minutes ago, Woodbutcherbynight said:

Yeah that ice kinda put that plan on hold.. Very cool though. You are experimenting and trying. Most just yak about it.

I also dab in solar...

23 minutes ago, Kevin Beitz said:

I also dab in solar...

I had a solar set up for about 4 years. A college professor at Ga Tech had his students build and field test it for classwork. Then removed for analysis. Worked well for power in a shed and two spot lights on a dusk to Dawn sensor.

Wind mills and solar installations abound around here. Not so many water wheels, though. Lots of places are off the grid. Most, not by choice. We investigated those options. At the time, payback was longer than our projected life span. 

5 minutes ago, Gene Howe said:

Wind mills and solar installations abound around here. Not so many water wheels, though. Lots of places are off the grid. Most, not by choice. We investigated those options. At the time, payback was longer than our projected life span. 

That has been biggest issue with solar, windmills and geothermal.

My water wheel was a pizza oven. It was at one time 16 feet wide. I got it out of a bakery that closed down many years ago. It was on the third floor. What a time I had getting it to the ground floor. This is a picture of the oven when it was still in the bakery.

 

 

 

 

...I wonder what the state would think about me putting a water wheel in the ditch along the highway. 

1 minute ago, Larry Buskirk said:

...I wonder what the state would think about me putting a water wheel in the ditch along the highway. 

Why would they think anything?

 

2 minutes ago, Larry Buskirk said:

...I wonder what the state would think about me putting a water wheel in the ditch along the highway. 

Navigation hazard???

1 minute ago, Kevin Beitz said:

Why would they think anything?

 

Same reason they threaten to tax or fine you for collecting rain water in some places. Because they see a way to make money.

1 minute ago, Woodbutcherbynight said:

Navigation hazard???

Thats not even close to the road....

 

1 minute ago, Kevin Beitz said:

Why would they think anything?

 

I'm on a 4 lane state highway, I'm sure somebody from the "City" subdivision behind me would complain. 

1 minute ago, Woodbutcherbynight said:

Navigation hazard???

Only for the above named that somehow end up driving into the ditch when using the turn lane that leads to the road with the entrance to the subdivision. 

2 minutes ago, Woodbutcherbynight said:

Same reason they threaten to tax or fine you for collecting rain water in some places. Because they see a way to make money.

The land that I own at one time has a water run saw mill. Some how the prier owners got the water rights to the valley I live in. So now the water rights are on my land deed.  

6 minutes ago, Woodbutcherbynight said:

Same reason they threaten to tax or fine you for collecting rain water in some places. Because they see a way to make money.

I have to pay for the water that runs through the ditch as a runoff fee on my property tax bill already, they'd probably come up with another fee for using it! 

1 minute ago, Larry Buskirk said:

I have to pay for the water that runs through the ditch as a runoff fee on my property tax bill already, they'd probably come up with another fee for using it! 

Wow.... I would be broke in an hour....

3 minutes ago, Larry Buskirk said:

I have to pay for the water that runs through the ditch as a runoff fee on my property tax bill already, they'd probably come up with another fee for using it! 

Larry, you sure have some weird property tax laws, up there. How on earth do they justify that? Well, on second thought, I guess they don't have to justify it. 

8 minutes ago, Larry Buskirk said:

I have to pay for the water that runs through the ditch as a runoff fee on my property tax bill already, they'd probably come up with another fee for using it! 

That they caused by the highway. Makes perfect sense.

18 minutes ago, Kevin Beitz said:

Wow.... I would be broke in an hour....

 

I don't have near that much, maybe about 1/4 of that! 

16 minutes ago, Gene Howe said:

Larry, you sure have some weird property tax laws, up there. How on earth do they justify that? Well, on second thought, I guess they don't have to justify it. 

...I just looked, and it's a "Village" fee described as "Bristol STRM WTR UT CHARGE" 

...Whatever!!! it's $30.00

15 minutes ago, Woodbutcherbynight said:

That they caused by the highway. Makes perfect sense.

You'd love how they fill the ditch which is about 10' deep with snow in the winter tag plowing two lanes our way. 

Nothing like having a 4' wall of snow across the end of the driveway.