I 3D Printed a TURBINE and Produce Electricity With It.

foreign object doesn't look really complicated at least from the outside but inside happens a lot this is turbine it looks a bit like a jet engine compressor but it's not completely opposite the working principle of this type of turbine is actually really simple first of all there is a shaft to the shaft or connect the three rotors between the rotors are two Staters the rotors will rotate because they are connected to the shaft the shaft will rotate also the rotational movement can be used somewhere else but we speak about this a bit later stators don't move so what is the purpose of those to understand this we have to take a closer look to the status and routers plates if you remove the outer wall and loop from the top it starts to make more sense if for example dire flow through the place in this direction two things happening first of all the iron will push the plates and also because they are oil for shapes it's great to lift those two forces make the rotors move but after the rotor is tater the air isn't moving like it did before add the straight line now the air is moving on a slight angle this would not be a problem if there is not another rotor behind that the same iron has to rotate again if there isn't a stator it would do the opposite so we need the stator to redirect the air if you look those plates it's pretty simple to understand how it toasted and then the same process repeats itself now we know how this 3D printed turbine works next it's time to print all necessary parts and start pulling for others and Staters I use my super fast pandu lab X1 they are printed with quite a strong printed settings the wall thickness is fire layers I wanted those plates to be completely solid but I didn't want to bring with 100 of infield because the middle section don't have to be solid it's just a waste of material housing and leads I printed with my clarity and the 3s1 pro and I use pla for all three different parts in this video everything is over here leads housing three routers and two sliders now it's time to assemble by the way it's really easy but just saying the designing was not but first first thing is to sandwich those rotors and Status it's like Pig Mac the routers are puns and the Staters are beef to attach the bottom and middle router together I use three M4 bolts and exactly same way I attached an extrator next I had to get eight millimeter shaft through the rotors this was not the easiest desk it was not planned so I had to use Hammer I didn't know the feet is so light originally I plan to secure the rotors to the shaft with square nuts and set screws but now they are just not needed the most important thing to keep in mind is the order of the stator you see on the sides are little extrusions one has four and other has five it's really important that four Extrusion stator goes between third and second rotor otherwise it will just not fit in the housing and if you're wondering what those things are actually they solve two greatest problems of the design first of all it stops them rotating status have to be stationary like we already know and second it fixes the clearances between Staters and rotors now when the big mic is done we can place this into the housing and it fits there perfectly and then I add eight millimeter bearings to the both of those leads and screw those to the rest of the turbine and turbine is done thank you for watching by the way everything is not ready just a turbine also intake is needed and maybe something behind for example stepper motor to produce some electricity let's not get ahead right now I have a little problem when I spin the turbine it does some clicking noise it cannot be anything else than the rotors touching housing or status I tried to solve this problem by spinning to durbine with my power drill for a couple of minutes to wear this in whatever is causing this this method helped but not enough so I do get the part and not these two spots 3D printing you know on the corners there are little extra material anyway I sent those down a bit it's still there but it doesn't really stop the dirt bike as much it did before so it's fine enough for now I need to know toast this turbine never work and if so how well so I need to compressed air right now but over here where I record the video AKA in my home I don't have a compressor so I had to drive the location where I have the compressor and the gift go and for my surprise all right foreign [Music] [Music] but the sound tells more this test was just to see does it even work I didn't expect this type of result and sadly I didn't took the RPM reader however it was called with me and I didn't know how fast this exactly spins but the video is not over and we will Dash this again big thanks to PCB way for sponsoring this video the transparent turbine housing that you have seen in the video I didn't print this by myself it's printed from PCB way just look at it it's absolutely amazing you probably know BCB way as making custom pcbs yes it's true but did you also know they do way more than just pcbs they also do 3D printing CNC Machining sheet metal fabrication and dividend section molding speaking about 3D printing I mean you can order even metal I have ordered from PCB way many many times and they have done absolutely amazing job every single time so if you need something but you don't have right machines or skills use PCB way PCB way is your One-Stop solution so let's continue first intake of course I don't keep this so unprofessional turbine front lead has six holes my original idea was to connect tubes to the lead and to the other end this type of thing which separates the stream of their equally to all six tubes this was terrible idea for many reasons and described it anyway I didn't get it together and one guy stopped me from doing it so game up with way better idea no dupes this time in the lead itself are shapes that kites the iron all over the turbine this one was my first redesign and they don't have really big hopes on this one because I did some design flaws but the second one is way simpler and probably the best one anyway it's time to test this again first with the gray lead foreign [Applause] this time first I didn't got any readings so I had to turn off the lights the reading is around 5000 RPMs the turbine with greatly it works pretty well but I also test the yellow lid [Music] this one didn't work as well as the previous one with this one their PM was around 1500. there is one difference more on the deep I epoxy glue the connector it helps me to get air directly from the compressor simply speaking I will get more air which in this case be more power than I can get with the iron pistol foreign is a bit higher but still Trail it was better so far I've done only try this now I connected one stepper motor to the turbine shaft which in this case is generator and I'm going to test does it have enough torque to spin the motor and sorry I didn't add shorter M3 bolts [Applause] turbine has no problem to handle the Nema 17 stepper motor but I believe a lot of my viewers want to comment that there is no load on the motor yes so I connected one 12 volt plate plug to the motor between is obviously full Bridge rectifier that transforms AC to DC current foreign [Applause] so far everything has been working better than blend but there is something I want to try more this type of turbine isn't designed for water or any type of liquid still I connected my garden hose to my transparent turbine and I give it a go [Applause] I did believe that the turbine still spins at really low rate but it turns out it didn't spin at all there's nothing unexpected but still I had to try it and it's kinda cool to see how the water moves inside turbine I believe it's cool like if the turbine actually spins but anyway this is the end of the video if you did like the video then I believe you will like my past and upcoming videos so maybe consider subscribing anyway big thanks for watching and see you guys really soon bye

Channel: Let's Print

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Keywords: 3d printed, 3d printing, 3d print, Practical, useful, lets print, diy, how to make, ABS, PLA, PETG, turbine, impeller, poropeler, turbine blades, jet engine, plane engine, turbo jet, hydro, energy, electrcity, 3d printed turbo, 3d printed turbine, generator, steam engine, steam turbine, blades

Id: XBxpbDZeG6I

Length: 10min 37sec (637 seconds)

Published: Tue May 30 2023