Water Power Generator

[ptroiani]

Very good design and construction. I used a similar device on a small stream to power lights in our camp. How much power did you get from your unit? I was able to power 400 watts of lamps, which was enough to provide illumination without the use of battery powered torches. Good job! Keep experimenting!

[kuyawang]

hey dude!? may i know whta kind of motor didi you sue? is it a stpper motor? and how many volts?,,

[Kepahl]

@kuyawang I'm not sure, as I didn't make it. (father in-law did ). I think he got it from an old Panasonic electric bicycle. (recycled).

[sustainable2012]

wow... I WANNA HOOK THAT UP TO AN AQUAPONICS SET UP!!!???

DOES THAT PRODUCE ELECRICITY?

[Kepahl]

@sustainable2012 YES, IT DOES!!!

[sustainable2012]

@Kepahl

what the gigga hertza whatzamajig output.

[Kepahl]

Wow! Can't believe I have over a million views for this. Thanks for the thumbs up everybody. I'll have a new version soon as this unit attempts to break a Guinness Book record while attached to a bicycle for 24 hours.

[kuyawang]

@Kepahl can i ask if what type of motor did you use? and what was it's rated voltage, is it a stepper motor? where can we buy that type of motor? coz im having a thesis of making an small scale of hydroelectric power source,, any hints? or site where can i found that motor? pls reply

[tashtan1]

so how is electricity is produced from that method!

[magnernj5]

@tashtan1 The energy from the water is used to rotate an electrical conductor through a magnetic field. When the conductor rotates, it generates a voltage (voltage is the power needed to push the electrons from one atom to another) and if you connect two electrical conductors from the generator to a lamp, the electrons will flow and then you have an electrical current.

[tashtan1]

@magnernj5 thanks, its so hard for me to understand experiments like this, because I dont have any science classes anymore. and I sucked at those!

[magnernj5]

@tashtan1 NP :)

[JPMorganMustDie]

It surprising nobody has made one with an Attached Electric Water to pump the water back up to the Top. Free Energy !! Free Energy !!

[busguy100]

@JPMorganMustDie You cannot make enough power to pump the water back up as it would take much more to do that. WILL NOT WORK!

[JPMorganMustDie]

@busguy100

Clearly, my attempts at sarcasm are not woking !!

[JohanKH]

Cool sound level .. Thumbs up for the project but this is a video of the project ..

[superdarco150]

wow nice

[SuperHiddenvideo]

we can get enough electricity by falling water.

[SuperHiddenvideo]

@SuperHiddenvideo

[luderinc]

tesla time

[JayByrd319]

can u store energy in that?

[discoide1451]

24 V Generator site Weeb discoide1451

[konner02]

How much power was generated in that waterfall?

[Kepahl]

@konner02 I have no idea how much water is flowing there but density of water =1000kg/cubic meter

P.E. = mgh

weight=density*g*volume

[Ted7864]

Produces enough electricity to power two 60 watt light bulbs.

a few billion more of these babies and we could light a very small city

[Kepahl]

@Ted7864 we got it running 7 or 8 100 watt bulbs.

[Ted7864]

@Kepahl so then instead of a few billion of these things you would only need a few hundred million to power a very small city.

[djplace16]

go stick your finger in that and see what happens :D

[Kepahl]

@djplace16 The finished product has a perspex cover. The unit has been modified a few times and has been sent to a university to be in a 24 hour Guinness World Record challenge to produce electricity. I don't know the details at all.

[djplace16]

@Kepahl cool, what does it work better when it has a cover, i would love to have that in my back yard because i have a small creek

[discoide1451]

Site Weeb  discoide1451

[jetboy1995]

how did you create that generator?

[Kepahl]

@jetboy1995 Was taken from an old electric bicycle I think. ( I didn't make it, I just filmed it )

[fcentaur]

And where is the wire?

[Kepahl]

@fcentaur on version 2 in the description box link

[Fandalg]

do you live around there? beautiful place. If I lived by moving water I would totally love to do something like this.

[Kepahl]

@Fandalg I live about 300km away and go there on my holidays. Hakuba Japan. And stay at Hakuba Creekhouse

[payaning2x]

you made that or buy?

[Kepahl]

@payaning2x My son and his grandfather developed it over 2 years.... (they made it)

[charronfamilyconnect]

Are you using this device to generate energy? What are you powering, charging..???

[Kepahl]

@charronfamilyconnect It was dismantled... and re-built into a better version. Look at the link in the description.

It is not being used anymore. Needs some more adjustments. It's just a prototype. 

[tucsonpersonified]

OMG you are running the political environment. The Obamination will have to regulate you to prevent the cause and effect of not being dependent on the established grid. Can not have anyone trying to be self sufficient and not pay for electricity. Only way to get around it is go in to mass production in China and sell it back to the US consumer and tax the product and electricity produced. BE AFRAID O'Beelzebub is watching!!

[joedanero]

@tucsonpersonified Sorry for sounding harsh. You have an extremely warped and twisted view on reality. Obama is the one all for green energy tax incentives. Google it or go to open secrets(dot)org. Big Energy corps (along with almost every other corp!) back repubs most.Theyre the ones who dont want you to generate your own power and they buy the politicians to prove it! Sorry for the reality check. Stop hating those who truely stand for what you believe in and fight those who stand in the way.

[tucsonpersonified]

@joedanero I hate to bust your bubble but O'Belseebub the Obamination is anything but a green person. He is in the OPEC MUSLIMS right pocket and has done NOT ONE thing for this country other than talk. I know when he is lying because he is speaking. If he was a green person he would have let Hemp be legal as he said he would do. Hemp is renewable resource for all kinds of bad environment things and easily renewable. Not to mention it takes carbon out of the air. GET A ROPE AND HANG EM HIGH!

[E2ekiel555]

This is awesome I would love to have this running in my back yard!! Great video

[MineIsHuge]

how much power/wattage does it produce per day, week or month?

[Kepahl]

@MineIsHuge Not sure but it can get up to 700watts of lights glowing...

[GhettoGang100]

is it on your propriety?

[Kepahl]

@GhettoGang100 No it is here. 36.685559,137.822285 Paste that to google maps.

[crisman14]

what is that for anyway??

[Kepahl]

@crisman14 making free electricity...

[mastersduhgree]

I would imagine it lacks torque to turn a gen at significant speed?

[ChristHasRisen1982]

I thought it was awesome :)

[gregoryscottsr]

iT'S BRILLIANT

[jimbojamesIV]

My question is once the water mill generates electricity is it being sent somewhere, stored and can it be transferred into heat?

[Kepahl]

17 dislikes for beautiful scenery, a hand made power generator and only 42 seconds to see it all. I guess they wanted a feature length film! What do you expect for nothing? Rubber biscuit?

[EdisonExploratorium]

@Kepahl

Youtube viewers are like the general population, they expect everything for free and complain when the budgets are low.... lol!!!! they should pay you a dollar per view and then expect history-channel technical quality.

[MegaRallycar]

Wered he get the generator

[Kepahl]

@MegaRallycar from an old electric bicycle.



[scottymouth]

I like this design. I think it is elegant and effective. You science brains can criticize it for technical shortcomings. I am sure if you wanted to make this at a larger scale it would pose problems, but it is nice and can be quite useful in the right situations. Nice work!

[RomanKnight88]

how much it cost to made that? and what pieces you need?!

[Kepahl]

@RomanKnight88 He made it by hand. The casing is wooden. Bits he couldn't buy at the hardware or electric store he made himself... even the metal fly wheels, magnetic disks... and brackets...

[RomanKnight88]

awesome Water Power Generator :D 5* man

[PumpManufacturers]

very interesting

[lenb20052005]

how much electriccty dose it put out? what can you power with it?

[Kepahl]

@lenb20052005 as much as 700 watts. depends on how fast you can get the water in and out..._

[ttyler333]

@Kepahl where did ya find that nice case?

[Kepahl]

@ttyler333 He made it by hand out of wood and painted it.

[Flashanimator10]

cool you can take your tv in the woods and watch tv

[MommyBird10]

how much electricity does this produce? 

[MsAbbey123]

that is sooo cool!

[WhiteTrashSingers]

They need this on Niagra Falls.

[willavr]

@WhiteTrashSingers There is a hydro plant on Niagara falls...

[frisc45]

up scale that and get some real juice!

[mrfranciscodeasisify]

I know and to be applied the technology, for the generation of energy and later distribution wireless (magnetic resonance), this technology is based on natural resources, like the superconductive gravity and properties and anti gravity of gold. These technologies were formulated by Nicola tesla, but the Jewish machinery of publicity DES discredited the informing it and isolated so that the humanity could not know and still more to enjoy this resource, by which we do not have to pay

[salerio61]

@mrfranciscodeasisify superconductive gravity and anti-gravity of gold. You need to be laying of fthe bong, there ain't no such thing

[knightflyer42]

Very nice! What kind of output have you been getting from it?

[magezuge]

NICE! ceep on doing things like that :) we need green energy!!

[AClarke2007]

Another Beauty Spot. You can`t put these things anywhere you know.

[KeeFCrook]

It would be much more efficient if the water ran over the top of the wheel instead of the bottom.

[Kepahl]

@KeeFCrook Maybe, but what about the water that gets kicked back into the waterfall from not exiting the wheel? With this system no negative waterflow is produced.



[Gamby00]

@Kepahl That problem would be solved with the use of a sluiceway, My video response shows a good example of that system.

[QCBEC]

@Kepahl So that mean it souind good right

[RangieNZ]

@KeeFCrook I doubt it. Overshot wheels normally are fairly slow operating and use the weight of water in the bucket to transfer the energy. This setup looks like an 'impulse wheel' as the speeds look quite high. One way to extract more power from this setup, would be to put a nozzle at the end of the pipe, then extend the pipe further up the waterfall (to give greater pressure) and use a 'pelton wheel' instead. The bucket shape on the pelton wheel is a lot more efficient.

[obzelite]

@RangieNZ an even more efficient system would be a tesla turbine.

[KeeFCrook]

It would be much more efficient if the water ran over the top of the wheel instead of the bottom.

[thercpoop]

lol

[Abdullah123456781000]

this is very common

[Kepahl]

@Abdullah123456781000 There are millions of mills in the world, but I can assure you, this is a one of a kind hand crafted, home made, one of a kind.

[cooldude7901]

@Kepahl lol u said one of a kind in the same scentence twice :3

[MrTotallycool123]

fun fact of the day: IT HAS THE POWER TO LIGHT UP NEW YORK FOR APPROXIMATELY 1 WEEK!!!!

[DenverDave2]

I've looked at many of the water wheels on Youtube and I really like this flow under design. Any chance you or someone else would make similar for sale? Our objective is to either power a small water pump and / or perhaps an electrical generator.

Wish something like this was available for sale.

Thank you.

[ItsAnshuman]

Well can you upload the making of this mini turbine ?

[nik64534231]

like thats going to power your home

[homskoult]

With all that water falling this person shows us a miniature water. Can you imagine an overshot water wheel 80 ft. wide. The power and torque would be incredible . And there is room for three.

[Kepahl]

@homskoult Yes, would be good to make a huge one. I'd need a bigger car though.

[mrthebillman]

'Water Power Generator" huh. Congratulations, you rediscovered the 'WATER WHEEL', and it's only about a million years old.

[theplanetwhisperer]

Worthy demonstration further development on a bearing system would be important. water will destroy the type of bearings being using in short time. thanks for posting

[theplanetwhisperer]

Worthy demonstration further development on a bearing system would be important. water will destroy the type of bearings being using in short time. consider magnetics to achieve this made from corosion resistant materials. thanks for posting

[bolijack]

Whats new about this? Thats what I did as a schoolboy, thus illuminating my little treehouse :-))

[wyrrox]

Good work! Very nice!

[madrugaumreal]

nossa, eças hidrelétrica é gigante pa vira uma turbininha piqinininha assim e ja alumina tudu as casa da gente? é um caraio de terqinologia mesmo não!

[TheDJsammie]

lol

[oreskec]

put video how to make one of this

[BergerII0]

Pretty nice generator .... Now the only question that I have is what is the wattage output of the generator

[khepraseti]

Fantastic !!  Can I buy one of your generator?

[tomalotube]

do you live near there? thats an aweomse spot!!

[Kepahl]

@tomalotube I don't live near but go there about 3 times a year. It's in Hakuba where they had the Winter Olympics. We usually stay at CreekHouse which is about 700m walk to this spot. Beautiful area.

[Iaganatzi]

that's awesome! 

[bassa1965]

The potential is unlimited. Multiply to get mire power

[LucasReisdaSilva6]

Que legal, mas não tem perigo de molhar o gerador?

E isto é comprado ou feito por você mesmo?

[mattix771]

how many of these would you need to power a house? how much to build one of them

[watkijkjijdan]

/watch?v=2K-iG7i2Q1E

planet mechanics

[bankjobBoB]

What a cute little thing. maby you could make a scale model of the hover dam if you made this.

[scott80100]

hell even at those ratings u gave, if this thing will give off just 64w thats preety good for free !!! it would power a 60 watt light bulb and that would be MOST handy around a camp especially for free. so does it power a light bulb good?

[Kepahl]

@scott80100 Have a look at version 2 in the description... we also managed to get it up to 700watts on a bicycle....

[MuF123]

@Kepahl 700watts is too much for a bicycle :O

[Kepahl]

@MuF123 have a look at this website.... twowheelscycling.blogspot.com/­2007/10/1700-watts

[deaftodd]

@MuF123 not really

[MuF123]

@deaftodd yes, really.

[deaftodd]

@MuF123 it depends on how fast and far you want to go and the weight of the vehicle. That's my job...

[a2zhandi]

@Kepahl well isn't that innovative LOL no gym needed, Hop on the bike and get that water heated.

A bike is actually a pretty good idea as a supplement. Take several other sources, and "grid" will be just another 4 letter word hehe

[purplemutantas]

@scott80100 Why would you use a 60 watt bulb? LED lights consume much less power. Even a fluorescent bulb would be better than a 60 watt incandescent. I have two LED bulbs in my room. They consume about 2 watts each. They don't put out as much light as the compact fluorescents I used to use, but it's general enough light. I have a plug in light with a compact fluorescent if I need some extra light.

[Fantomassssssssss]

@scott80100 Hi, I wonder if the fallout is 1 Does the tube has a diameter of 50 mm, and what is the flow of water. Thanks

[cedartree696]

@scott80100 of course the nice thing about hydro is that it's 24 hrs/day. If the power was banked, this thing would be providing 1,536 watt hrs/day. Enough to run your microwave, TV or computer for an hr. Pretty cool!

[RangerRofl]

that is awsome omg what could it power thought??? an ipod or a laptop (just examples)

[mx20100]

it's mini

[MonoAoV]

perhaps if there were some type of hopper at the top of a straight pipe as opposed to a diagonal it could help air to be removed from the water increasing density as well as the straight drop from a fully vertical pipe will increase velocity. density x velocity = power

[TheCatMilton]

how mutch volts dc does it generate

[Kepahl]

@TheCatMilton The second version (see link in description box) generates the following: 500RPM = 64W, 1000RPM = 228W, 1500RPM = 457W power

Still not very efficient.

[donsjuand]

@Kepahl What IS more efficient hydro electric wise?

[aftob]

hello, i want to buy 10-20kw. who knows any chines company, which produce it? please help me to find it.

Best regards,

sharaf

[CCSinventions]

That thing hauls ass! good job!

[jacob12marcelo]

i made one of those but it got all rusty

[jacob12marcelo]

i made one of these but it got all rusty :(

[willz100]

instead of 1 generator on 1 waterfall could the fall of water be made to step down with this kind of generator on every step just a thought

[Kepahl]

@willz100 As many as you can make... unfortunately my father in law who made this makes 100s of inventions and has moved on to other projects. We actually drove about 300km to this river and stayed there for a week testing and tweaking it. This river would be frozen solid right now.

[Trinitrotoluo]

Finally a portable battery charger for the wilderness :D

[smoothoperatork1]

great video... can u tell me what u used for the generator ? thanks

[Kepahl]

@smoothoperatork1 the motor was taken from an electrical bicycle.

[mefan3]

Only if they use these in fast food resturaunt's playgrounds. The kids spin the wheel like they always do, but also save the world XD

[SaveDurban]

@mefan3 Apparently there was one in Uganda(merry-go-round), which powered an underground spring to a tank, saving people having to pump by hand.

[mefan3]

@SaveDurban that is pretty awesome

[MrSatancunt]

@mefan satan

[alundrasrt]

@mefan3 Even on sewer

[mefan3]

They should put these in sewers.

[1ukjunglednbraver]

maybe a gearing system would improve its perfomace

[Kepahl]

@1ukjunglednbraver Have a look at the second version. There is a link in the description box.

[HostileHST]

A squirrel cage fan that use permanent magnets is an idea. Can also be used for wind power, but not necessarily at the same time, though that would be a nice trick.

[Kepahl]

@HostileHST Certainly enough water power from that river.

[KbirdShek]

I have two questions for you.

1.) Do these actually work?

2.) How do you make them?

[Kepahl]

@KbirdShek They work but don't produce a large amount of power. This one was hand made...even the metal fly wheels were made by hand. My wife's father was an engineer at NEC for 35 years and now spends his time inventing things. A lot of work went into this and if you look at the link in the description you can see the newer version is bigger and better. If they could be made cheaply and put in to use more he would be a happy man!

[ryobie1]

Very cool!

[MrStrasznyfilm]

takie maszynki sa dobre gdzies na wyjazdy ,pod namioty itp wrzucasz do wody kawalek kabla zarowka i masz prad ; >

[9003weman91]

i wonder how much voltage i could get out of my bathroom break

[Kepahl]

@ShaggyKyle look at version 2 watch?v=G5rz91Z5QUY a link also in the description

[vox1philippines]

thakz for sharing your idea.....ill do that in my small Dam.

[native707]

nice ...

[chevyloverguy1]

nice little model !!

[750triton]

more efficient if you can make it overshot rather than undershot. Great project

[ujayet]

All y'all a bunch a idiots!! He said it's his son's project, "project" i think that means you make somthing and enjoy doing it!!!

[BRENT3143945]

ok this was frist made in 1928!!!!

[DumbLuck867]

sweet now i can charge my ipod when im at a waterfall

[TheWorldToDay1]

respect because i lov this upload it dose realy

work very well thank you