mirco hydro

[oregoncreek]

I have a small hydro system doing 25 volts no load

i'm charging a 12v car bat just fine, probaly 30-40 watts

am using a 120dc permagnet motor (old trend mill motor for generator and a 400 watt dc to 120 ac inverter to send power 150 foot),

I'm in oregon near salem, I'm looking for other storage options, like used lead calium bats, forklift batts etc..

I may put pulleys on system to gain speed/power.

Is there a unit that will accept wide dc range 12- 40/50 volts

dc and maybe switch between batteries as charger to keep mulitple batteries toped off, this unit might aslo have bulit it invertor 400- 1000 plus watts, any ideas for batts or electronics would be helpfull.

 I may build a bigger version

hoping for 150 watts dc or ac,

I wanted to build a banki for my 3-5 foot head but my creek has lots of flow varitions.

like my first i was thinking of using a 12" fan form an old heat pump.

to build a propellor turbine system. maybe I could build my own blade form metal then do pipe shaped cuts on it and twist the blades???

and ideas for bteer blades or angles of??

comerical shystems are way to expensive for me

[Jerry]

Hi oregoncreek.

I'm in Salem. Check in at The Audio Source on McGilchrist and we'll visit.

What size is your tredmill motor. I'm flying a few as wind gennys. The large 2.5 hp (4"X10") size are typicly 3000 rpm the smaller motors are 6000 rpm motors and as such need much higher rpm to make 12v charging.

I see around 400 watts from the large motors at 500 rpm.

2 of my costomers are using my alts on hydro. One is an 8FT overshot wheel, its powering a 10" dual rotor Lowes ceramic alt. This unit is charging a couple marine deep cycle batteries for lights in a small private park.

The other is a converted 3 phase AC motor on a 14ft overshot wheel. This unit is heating a basement at around 1100 watts.

Both of the systems use transmision to gearup.

                       JK TAS Jerry

[fusiongary]

I'm in Salem too, I need some help designing a system.  I would like to the system to be capable of charging batteries, running lights and heating water.  Please help.
thanks much
Gary

[fusiongary]

Is your project up and running? I'd love to come check it out. I'm gearing up for a hydro project in the next couple months. I'm in s.salem, maybe you could give me a couple pointers...
Thanks
Gary