Interesting video, but what are the advantages of that type of turbine? Torque? To me it seems to be taking an awful lot of energy to set in motion. How many RPMs have you had it running at? :-)
@ShamblerDK Thank you for your comment. The primary advantage is cost. As you can imagine the blades of a conventional turbine can be quite expensive. The blades that we use can be laser cut for a fraction of the price. Because of its simple construction, the Tesla turbines should also be more durable. Our next turbine video will measure the RPM.
@Thrustcycle Thank you for that answer. I feel enlightened! I might make one of these myself one day. It will be about the time where I move into my own house and get my own workshop complete with all kinds of power tools :-)
@ShamblerDK . You're welcome. Sounds like a great plan for the future. Please keep us posted. As MrfixitRick and woodfirepower have mentioned the addition of a housing, inlet for pressure nozzle and exhaust outlet should improve performance.
Where are you located? I'd like to blow some real steam into that thing. Check out my channel, woodfirepower , on youtube and take a look at some of the supersonic steam nozzle tests. If you guys are close enough, you could bring it over and we could put it in a housing, then blow 40kW of steam into it and hook it up to a generator. Nice job, balance, and bearings. But it isn't working at all like a Tesla turbine..........its more of an impulse turbine. You need to get it in a housing
so this is only going to work with water or something else?
alex199273 6 months ago
@alex199273 . It's very versatile. Water, steam, air pressure or mixed fluids.
Thrustcycle 6 months ago
Interesting video, but what are the advantages of that type of turbine? Torque? To me it seems to be taking an awful lot of energy to set in motion. How many RPMs have you had it running at? :-)
ShamblerDK 6 months ago
@ShamblerDK Thank you for your comment. The primary advantage is cost. As you can imagine the blades of a conventional turbine can be quite expensive. The blades that we use can be laser cut for a fraction of the price. Because of its simple construction, the Tesla turbines should also be more durable. Our next turbine video will measure the RPM.
Thrustcycle 6 months ago
@Thrustcycle Thank you for that answer. I feel enlightened! I might make one of these myself one day. It will be about the time where I move into my own house and get my own workshop complete with all kinds of power tools :-)
ShamblerDK 6 months ago
@ShamblerDK . You're welcome. Sounds like a great plan for the future. Please keep us posted. As MrfixitRick and woodfirepower have mentioned the addition of a housing, inlet for pressure nozzle and exhaust outlet should improve performance.
Thrustcycle 6 months ago
Wow, that's a big one!
Lots of gyro action there, especially as the effect increases with the square of the speed.
Once this baby is in an enclosure, with the exhaust outlet in the centre, and up to pressure with a nozzle, it will be fun to see what happens!
MrfixitRick 6 months ago
Where are you located? I'd like to blow some real steam into that thing. Check out my channel, woodfirepower , on youtube and take a look at some of the supersonic steam nozzle tests. If you guys are close enough, you could bring it over and we could put it in a housing, then blow 40kW of steam into it and hook it up to a generator. Nice job, balance, and bearings. But it isn't working at all like a Tesla turbine..........its more of an impulse turbine. You need to get it in a housing
woodfirepower 8 months ago
Cool!
That's one big disk turbine!
ufoengines 9 months ago