Ok, I feel like I'm back in school again. Somehow I just don't seem to be able to retain as much as back then though. The birthdays are starting to show up more. The pond is about 20 feet deep where we will be pulling from and is colored like tea. It reflects the cypress trees and often is so still it looks like a mirror and the clouds float slowly by. The bass can be seen jumping and the brim steal your bait. If you know anything about our water then you know it's some of the cleanest anywhere in spite of the tannins. The main pond is at least 18 acres and the back pond that feeds it just a few. There are two streams going into the pond now and the overflow isn't running right now as the ponds more than a foot low. So the dam wouldn't be a source for a water power except after an unusually heavy rain. In the "old" days water coolers used a slatted wooden frame for the water to flow over for oxygenation. There's no reason that the used water can't flow over one of these if needed as they are easy built and cypress is available as redwood is not. I dreamed this morning that if this would work in a pond, why not in a swimming pool?
Let's see where I'm at now.
Single phase = hp x 746 watts divided (can't find a symbol for that here) by voltage = amps pulled
Motor hp x 100 divided by voltage = amps
If you don't know the hp, take voltage x amps pulled divided by 746 = hp
Can check with voltmeter.
KW? Volts x amp divided by 1000 = kilowatts
1000 kilowatts = 1 amp
A light bulb, i.e.; 75 watts divided by 120 volts = 1.63 amp
- watts = 1 hp, running
- hp = 8640 watts or 8.64 amps (Not calculating surge at start up)
Installing a "vent" to release the water pressure on the lines would reduce the startup surge on pump.
- gpm generates 10, 000 watts divided by 240 volts = 41.67 amps ( Harris turbine) $3000.
- 67 - 8.64 = 32.93 gain before subtracting the known 40% loss that I read somewhere.
If you are going to hook up more than one turbine/generator you need to build a roto phase converter...and you can have a generator converted for around $3 to 400.00 for the "high leg or bastard leg". I'm getting stretched out here now, is the limb about to break? There's more, but for now that is enough. I hear the crows calling and my pecan crop this year is probably just 5% of last years and I need to beat the crows to them...lol.
Oh, in answer to your idea about the silage, we are already trying to grow blueberries and that was the reason we got the pumps. They keep our seedlings irrigated. All the land not in pines we hope to have in berries.
Thanks for your replies, I'll keep plugging away at this and see where I go. It seems that I have been looking at "small" systems and need to go to the larger ones. Social security just doesn't go far and I need my air like up north needs heat. Sure can't take off enough to get cool. Wiil check back tonight. m
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