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how to make a pico-Hydroelectricity generator
Submitted by acc724 on Thu, 2010/07/29 - 08:19.
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got a ???..up on the finca i get my water for the house from a spring..about 100'to 150' verticle ft. above the house..we pipe it down to the house..about 200yds.away..Doug was telling me i could get a in line pico turbine to make electricity..i googled it..i hate google..im not a computer person and too much info comes up for me..now i can buy them from china or india,,but dose anyone know anyone in nica..that sells them or makes them..dose anyone have instructions on how to make one..i would like to spend my money local ..saturday im going to hit the solar energy stores to see if they have any info on them
Homepower magazine..
had an article ;
By Sam Redfield Oct/Nov 2008 (#127) pp. 24-26
He made one with five gallon buckets and pvc plumbing parts, it uses an automotive alternator. I'll send you a copy by e-mail
-Doug ©
If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate
Maybe these links will help
The first seems the most useful and practical....
but the others have some info that may add to it.
The last one is techie, but has a lot of power generation info.
http://www.appropedia.org/Picohydro_generator http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2008/06/bucketborne_hydroelectric.html http://www.b20-biodiesel.net/Pico_hydro/ZZT http://www.moreau-fr.net/proto/turbine/en/#d0e65
thanks for the post..
some good info
generator
Before going ahead with making a generator you might want to determine how much electricity you could possibly get, based on how much water you have available for use.
At 100% efficiency ( you would get less than 50% of this), lowering 550 lbs of water a distance of one foot in one second would give you 746 watt. Lowering 1lb of water 550 ft in one second gives the same power etc.. If you lower the same amount of water through the same number of feet ( the product of the two is what matters) in half as much time you double the power etc.. Power in watts = 746*(#lbs of water)*(distance lowered in feet)/[(time used in seconds)*550]
This will tell you if the project is worth attempting.