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Generator:
Anyone here considering building a dam on their property (creek) for potential to harness energy?

DamonHD:
If you search the site (directly or eg in Google with a site:fieldlines.com qualifier) you'll find plenty.

Rgds

Damon

Generator:
I tried it before posting. I'm looking for someone who wants to do it now. Not done in the past. Even if someone has done it and are considering to improve / expand it will be fine.



--- Quote from: DamonHD on January 13, 2021, 01:10:52 PM ---If you search the site (directly or eg in Google with a site:fieldlines.com qualifier) you'll find plenty.

Rgds

Damon

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Mary B:
My old boss damned the creek running along one side of his property to create a fishing pond. I built him a little waterwheel that drove a small generator that lights his fishing dock. Nothing fancy, simple pvc paddles on a wood frame, chain drive to a little DC motor I had in my junk box. Lights up a little LED light at night. No battery, no electronics beyond a zener/current regulating resistor... Still running 17 years later! Way it is situated bearings stay mostly dry so lifespan has been great, replaced them once.

machinemaker:
I am wanting to develop the creek on our property for low head micro-hydro. The state wildlife and environmental agencies have no problem with me building an artificial beaver dam with pipes for level control. I plan a dam a few feet high made with posts driven into the stream bed and natural branches and mud for the dam. The overflow pipes will provide water to an intake.
My question is that I will need to divert water a few hundred feet to get a two meter drop. I am planning in burying 8" flexible plastic pipe, we have freezing winters and I want to be ice free, What slope should I consider in my pipe run? just for clarity I am building a turbine with a down draft tube, so the water pipe would be nearly level with slope just to help water flow.
Or am I planning the wrong approach?

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