New 4" Low Head Micro Hydro Unit Intro

hey i'm seth with land of house thank you so much for tuning in in the year 2020 i teamed up with langston alternative power and installed two micro hydro units on the creek out here and they produced uh power the majority of the winner my system actually uh had issues which we will address pretty soon but my neighbor's unit has produced uh what was it 60 70 watts for his uh off wood homestead all winter long so he has thoroughly enjoyed swapping over to that at night when the sun is down so uh spencer langston and i are going to be doing a lot more micro hydro stuff together here in 2021 so let me bring you up above here so you can see what's inside of this box okay so this box was just sent to me from langston alternative power and it is supposed to be the new four inch low head unit that he is currently developing so this is not going to be the final product that he is going to sell it's just a unit that he and i are going to be doing some testing with because at the edge of the property i've got an eight foot waterfall with a flow rate of somewhere around 50 to 100 gallons a minute so i should be able to pull some power out of this unit [Applause] okay let me get this set up over here so we can take a closer look at it here are the three things that came in the box that spencer sent looks like we've got a three-phase ac to dc rectifier that when we use that on these three wires right here to turn this into dc uh this seems to be some kind of uh dump load uh i'll have to talk to spencer to see exactly how this is going to be put together and then we got the unit right here the main unit so it's basically a sweeping t so the water will come into this side here and then we'll come out a tail pipe right here and that's where i'll be able to adjust four foot six foot eight foot to get various amounts of power out of that and it should also reduce the amount of water required if i use different lengths down here anyway so this is three phase and up here is where the actual pma is and then down here you can see the prop now i believe this is the prop that joe malovich 3d printed so if you want to see that being made you can check the description for that link that's all i have for you in this video is just an introduction to one of the projects that's coming up so the end of the property has a set of cascading waterfalls and the very last waterfall has an eight foot drop on it and so the plan is i can build a little intake right here so the water i can probably put some sandbags on that last waterfall channel all the water into this pipe and hopefully get some power produced from this if it works well enough i may actually try to send this power up to my neighbor's camper and that means that the creek out here will have three micro hydro systems feeding three different homes and that will be pretty awesome but so things that are coming up for micro hydro i'm going to be rebuilding my unit that is broken and then i'm going to be doing a new intake at the very top it's going to be a high dollar intake so to be honest i'm probably going to repair everything that i've got currently in the creek do a little series on that and then i will do individual videos for each section as i improve so the intake and then i'll be going down to make a new box and a new uh exit pipe for the current unit that's down there and then we have something special coming up with a whole new turgot system that's going to be down here so right now i'm using a pelton wheel and we're going to be installing a turbo unit to see how that performs under the same setup blah blah blah a lot of talk more hydro coming up is what i want to say and just introduce what spencer just sent over so anyway check out langston alternative power if you are looking for hydropower and also check out joe malovich to see how he 3d printed that that wheel or that prop in there okay short video thanks for watching and i will see you in the next one bye

Channel: Land to House

Views: 72,850

Keywords: land to house, land two house, micro hydro, langston alternative power, water power

Id: KiKWyY7ugSM

Length: 5min 10sec (310 seconds)

Published: Thu Mar 25 2021