My micro turgo turbine and car alternator

This video shows one of the many prototypes that I have realized to test my turbine. It is useful to have a car alternator (I used the one of my old fiat) coupled with my TURGO turbine. To tell the truth using a car alternator is not the better thing, due to the low-level performance and to the high number of rpm necessary to start to generate energy. So I advise against the use of it in general. Only in particular cases it could be justified to use it: if you don't have particular problems of power to be produced, or if the use is really sporadic, its use could be justified. Especially for the easy way to obtain the components, the system shown in the video is very cheap, because it's realised with recovered materials. If you can listen to the sound of my video, you will listen to my turbine going to high rpm. At a certain moment I will connect the battery and the car alternator will start to produce energy. You will clearly listen that the turbine's rpm will go stabilizing. This system is now in use in a mountain house coupled to a 75 Watt solar panel.


In questo video si vede uno dei tanti prototipi che ho realizzato per il test delle mie turbine.
Ho utilizzato un alternatore di macchina (la mi vecchia fiat) accappiato ad una mia turbina TURGO.
Occorre subito premettere che utilizzare un alternatore di auto non è la cosa migliore.
Per via del basso rendimento dell'alternatore, e del giti alti necessari per far si che inizi a generare.
Quindi ne si sconsiglia in generale l'uso. Solo in casi particolari potrebbe essere giustificato il suo utilizzo.
Se non si hanno particolari problemi di potenza da generare, o se l'utilizzo è veramente sporadico, il suo uso potrebbe essere giustificato. Soprattutto per il facile reperimento dei componenti.
Il sistema che si vede nel video è molto economico, perché realizzato con componenti di recupero.
Se riuscite ad ascoltare l'audio del video si sentirà la turbina andare ad un numero di giri molto alto.
Ad un certo punto collegherò la batteria e l'alternatore inizierà a produrre energia. Si sente distintamente che i giri della turbina andranno a stabilizzarsi.
Questo sistema è in uso attualmente in una baita in montagna accoppiato ad un pannello solare da 75 watt.

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[albybe97]

sorry..in which mountain house is used this generator?

[energieag]

@albybe97

ciao

sono italiano

in val d'ossola

[energieag]

I want to explain that this is not the water distribution network. hydroelectric plants, you can do only if you have a natural stream.

[davepamn]

How many amps does the alterator generate? 

[energieag]

32 amp

[johnnecron]

The big question here is

Can you deisign such a sysytem for your home that will serve as an emergency generator power supply in the event you lose your electricity by using the public water supply for your power source and then storing your electricity in a bank of batteries and then get your ac from an inverter. Now here is the big question.

how many gallons of water per hour to run the generator .

how much money per hour in water fees.

how many kilowatts pr hour and the money value vs water

[energieag]

@johnnecron I do not use tap water

Use a natural stream

can not think of using tap water to generate electricity!

[billykash]

You know what would be really cool!? If you showed us how you made this!

[usmcoth]

Great. In what you gain in electric you have wasted in water.

[douro20]

Turgos are very efficient, but very noisy like all impulse turbines.

[SmallWindTurbines]

Nifty gadget but long way from powering a house right?

[LUCKY4908]

@IcechickenSr no problem.

[IcechickenSr]

@LUCKY4908 Hey mate, Sorry if I provoked you in any way my intention wasn't to try to be right, I just noticed this pop up in the comments alot and thought I'd pick one of them to help the author address the question/concerns. Thats all I mean by our conversation. It's really a nifty little device to setup if you have the abillity to gravity feed water from a creek down a slop long enough to allow alot of water and it's combined weight in volume to drive a small turbine. Emerg power. Cheers, IC

[IcechickenSr]

@LUCKY4908 I did, but below in the comments he made 1 year ago He also stated he's not using public water and running it from a mountain farm home or similar. A creeak is not the issue, it's Water, gravity, weight, speed and restriction that can create a massive ammount of power. If you drop so much water from 100' how much force do you think your going to have to play with, I could give you exact math, it'd blow your mind. We run a whol sprinkler system like this. Cheers mate.

[IcechickenSr]

@LUCKY4908 that would be counterproductive now wouldn't it, not to mention a serious irresponsibility to our enviroment. He's using a gravity feed from a local creek. Our farm has a gravity feed sprinkler system from 4" pipe all the way down to 1/2" in places. Due to the large down hil run and the siphon effect we get a massive ammount of pressure, which is more than enough to run several units such as these 24/7 with no issues what so ever. The has also stated he's NOT using public water!!!!!!