Hi, I've been to this site over the past year and I find it great to read. I'm new to this and I'd like to find out what to look for when searching for a PM motor? I have very little electrical background and looking for something simple to generate power at our hunt camp. Either wind or water will do. We have a small river by the camp and the rapid has a 15 foot drop on a 200 foot run. I have one of those treadmill motors also a Leeson 90V DC. Should I look for motors with lower voltage and RPMs. I've been on EBay looking for PM motors and seen a lot of different ones like DC servo motors and some AC. Any suggestion and Ideas would help me find something and what I can do with it. Thanks
Might want to give a little more info. "something simple to generate power at out hunt camp" can mean a lot of different things for different people ... from powering a light in a tent, to having a permanent frostfree refrigerator in a cabin structure.
Do you need AC to power normal consumer equipment?, 12 or 24 volt equipment? .
Basically start with your current electrical needs, then back pedal to what you can live with , and tell us.
I'll make the assumption this is all of grid, so make battery plans as well...you'll need somewhere to store the power, also come up with a frequency of use (and also maintenance...you can store a lot of power in a year for a yearly hunt, but if you don't maintain it... well, you won't have it when you need it)