Shot this video of my 100 w aquair turbine. Turbine has been underwater for almost three years under ice and under heavy spring runoffs. http://youtu.be/lO57CGxQFp8
I like that AMPair Underwater 100 because it is so heavy duty compared to the Aquair 100.
Plus filled with mineral oil. Wrote to England because I wanted the propeller shaft diameter
but they wouldn't answer me. Couldn't find it in the drawings. I asked them if they spoke
English with a smiley face but evidently they didn't think it was cunnin like I did.
So I called my man up in Alaska
(the Ampair / Aquair dealer there) because I knew they had some old Survivalists up there that
were into 'Portable Heavy Metal' / AKA / RDU's (Rapid Deployment Units).
He had me call their location in WA where they had a unit handy. Sure enough a 17 mm shaft.
That opened up all kinds of possibilities to fab up a carriage and to be able to switch it over to
a Robust (as in Nickel Iron) AIR unit - if wanted. Then back to Hydro at any time.
I had a lot of everything that I would need for the project in stock from building some
jive turkey air turbines just for fun. Some things happened and I never did it.
If I do one last Wind project it will be a revolutionary el-cheapo Gear-up unit that
utilizes cheap DC motorS as generators. I had a P/T business selling such stuff and kept
a nice collection of - you name it.
http://www.ampair(DOTcom)/downloads/UW_100_manual_rev_Feb_2007.pdf
Bill Blake
P.S. To avoid confusion they simply started to call it 'The Underwater 100'.
It's a little Battle Unit is what it is. Some guy in Seattle had one on CraigsList that he was
asking $600 for.
Don't know what he actually took. The guy didn't even bother with a dollar can of blue
spray paint. It was kind of funny.