Off the Grid With Karen and Grid: Micro Hydro...When it Rains it Roars
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Published 2021-03-16
Sometimes, it rains a lot. Enough to spin up their turbine by late Fall, and keep it going until mid-Spring.
Sometimes, it's a dry year. But there's always been enough water to take over when the winter sun sinks low in the sky and trees shade the PV array,
In this episode, Grid explains how a small system like theirs is built from an existing water supply.
Nerd Nuggets:
-Supplier: APM Hydro, Grants Pass, OR.
-Materiels:
2" schedule 40 PVC pipe
2" brass gate valves
6 Ga copper wire, stranded
1/2 inch PVC conduit
Tristar T-15 45 controller
Amp meter
Heat dump (28.5V diversion unit, DL-23, 855 watts)
Breaker panel (2@15 amp)
2" pressure hose
2 quick couplings
24-volt Micro-hydro assembly (1800 PM alternator, custom)
Note: Wired to existing 24-volt battery bank
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All Comments (21)
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So very well done. Thank you for taking the time to explain in such nice detail. Going to try one of my own! Cheers and best wishes from Maryland.
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Nice basic video. Thx for sharing
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Nice simple explanation. Thanks.
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I stumbled upon your channel today I’ve already watched several videos. Your channel is a true diamond in the rough. You’re super informative and explain things so well
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Well done sir hats of for giving it a go, we’re off grid, mostly plenty of sun in Western Australia, I’ve often thought about this on our property as it’s hilly, and can collect a lot of bore water. 🇦🇺👍
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Excellent instructional video, really like the way you talk. Subscribed and will be looking for more to watch from you in the future.
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Thank you for the work
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Superb.
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Well done mate!
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very good video :) I enjoyed your explanations very much, thank you
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Great video. 👍. Some day I want to buy a large peice of property with lots of land in a mountainous dense forest. I want to build a couple of small dams for power and water and a large dam to flood a decent size area to make a small lake or pond to go fishing and such. Im going to need alot of power for my small wood and machine shops. Along with everything else I'm planning to do such as a heated pool and a lumber mill. Probably around 5kw from the hydro. The solar and the wind would be more for backup power and such. Videos like this give me idea and alot of good information to help me plan things out.
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Amazing your system! A good sensation of freedom is not dependable on electric companies
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really nice set up there. good effort.
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Awesome. Good luck.
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Really helpful video.
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thanks very nice
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Just a note about the power calculations: Since the flow rate was measured at the end of the 1000' run, any losses in that run are already accounted for and don't need to be subtracted. If you measure flow at the intake, that's when you'd need to account for losses. Cool vid!
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Well explained, best video among youtube about this topic. Underated, I think u might deserve more subs. Keep up the good work!
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Thanks for sharing brother, I have no water I love making wind turbines, I guess it's all the same at the end of the day , cheers.
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Need to capture potential energy. Upstairs storage is a great way of insurance and a secondary overflow generation system.
