Hi all ~ As an editor for Home Power magazine, one of my responsibilities is to recruit experts and end users of RE technologies to contribute articles to the...
Dear group, See the message by Shailesh Mishra below. If you are able to help Shailesh with brochures, please contact him directly at shaileshco@.... ...
Happy New Year 2006! I'm from Romania and I am looking for pico turbines manufacturers. Please help me if you now good manufacturers with good prices Europe ...
I am looking for easy plans for poncelot wheels. I am a machinist and blacksmith so I can fabricate one out of steel. I have seen them and have many pics from...
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hello claire, if you wish so i can record some of our future experiences - as far as hydopower is concerned - for you. as it is, i receive messages from this...
Hi to all! I am interested about hydro-screen design. On my hydro-site there are a lot of leafs and debris in the water. Please send me informations how can I...
have you looked at http://www.hydroscreen.com/ yet? ... From: "mihaihlb" <mihai.mureseanu@...> To: <microhydro@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Thursday, January...
Hi to all! I am interested in the design of logboom for the collection of debris , logs etc.Can anybody help me in calculating wind and water friction/form...
Hi!GOOD DAY! I am Lordman Monforte an electrical engineering student of Mindanao State University of Iligan Institute of technology,Philippines.I joined...
Munit, You can fashion a pretty good log boom from sticks of 8" or 10" PVC pipe. Fill them 1/2 full of water and cap the ends. Place the boom diagonally across...
rkweir@...
Jan 7, 2006 11:40 am
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I have a 2KW 240VAC hydro. The load controller uses water heater elements in a barrel of water as a waste load. It works OK, but the heat is going to waste and...
I'm new to this all, but wondering why these heavy load controllers are used. For comparison, car generator doesn't have any these days, i.e. the electronic...
Doug, Your scheme using water heater elements in a barrel is OK and should be maintened. Correct the leaks and adjust only a small water flow for get max. ...
Girimahyu, Please give us first more precision in your request: gross head, flow range, end uses and so on. Regards, Carlos Bonifetti ... From: "giri wahyu...
Doug: The ELC controls the output level of the generator, you called waste load because you think that is not being used -- the basic point is that the ELC is...
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nando37@...
Jan 9, 2006 5:29 pm
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Hello, In microhydro (and hydro), if you don't use exactly the power produce by the turbine, the turbine overrun and the alternator may explode if it can't...
Hey Doug, I believe they do make a 240 VAC light bulb for industrial use so you won't have to do the series wiring....i've heard that these bulbs are very long...
Farrukh: Since you are new at this all, In a car the power is controller with the gas pedal. In a hydro, most of them do not have a gas pedal to controller...
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nando37@...
Jan 9, 2006 5:32 pm
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Dear Nando, I have a basic understanding how all of these systems work. But I was wondering, has anyone tried taking a Ac generator and varying the excitation...
Dennis: There are alternators with regulated fields to regulate the output of the it, the frequency of the alternator will vary due to the turbine RPM ...
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nando37@...
Jan 9, 2006 7:03 pm
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To use incandescent lamps as ballast loads IT IS BEST to use them at lower voltage, which means for 240 volts, use two lamps in series for each 240 volts link...
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nando37@...
Jan 10, 2006 4:19 am
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Dear Nando, I have spent the last five years reinventing the waterwheel. It has just gotten to the point where I have to start looking at generating system for...
This might have been mentioned earlier in this thread but it bears repeating...If your load controller is very fast acting then it will have difficulty...
Hi Doug, and all! ... Yes, there are several. One is that if your idea was using the light from the lightbulbs, forget it. Most of the time they will be...