DIY Water Battery (AKA: Hydro Electric Power)

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Just had to build my own water battery! A neat concept for storing energy using a water mass at an elevation and then discharging it through a turbine generator. The mini size I built isn't really practical, but it was a ton of fun doing it! Thank you Chris for the hose donations!

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6 сен 2024

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@arsentyroshkov5490 6 месяцев назад

This video is a prime example of engineering curiosity. Thanks for taking us for the ride!

@jimridge1 6 месяцев назад

Thanks so much for your comment. And you hit the nail right on the head...it's definitely engineering curiosity!

@William-e1t 27 дней назад

it would be cool to hook the return line to a ram pump to refill the tanks on the hill. just a thought 🤔

@jimridge1 12 дней назад

Yes that's a very cool idea!

@RandyGlass-f5n День назад

It would be nice to see it with a resister across the generater output if you had a decent output bye bye dvm since you are essentially using it as a load bank

@dino9071 Месяц назад

Why can't they be bult those generators inside section's of pipe so you can spin lots of them on the way down through the pipe.

@jimridge1 12 дней назад

That's a really good comment. It would all depend on how much pressure (head) loss each each turbine created. I suspect that each one would create very little over all so I think several turbine could be viable at one time. Another idea to consider would be putting the turbines in parallel rather than in series as you suggested above. This might work even better. In the end one would have to try it all out to see which is best.

@morgunbrunelle4573 3 месяца назад

Really cool video! I've made variations of similar setups. Just so you know. If you are curious to know the exact foot of head( difference in elevation) of your stock tanks and your Hydro set up. You can open the pressure gauge and keep your gate valve closed. This will effectively give you a PSI reading of just the fall of water from point A to point B. You can then take that PSI and multiply it by 2.31 and it will give you an approximate elevation difference. Nice build!

@jimridge1 12 дней назад

That's awesome. Thanks a million for the input on this. Much appreciated!

@mrbrown3536 5 месяцев назад

Fun video, thank you for sharing. Electricity is fascinating stuff :)

@jimridge1 4 месяца назад

Thanks for commenting!

@ivelsoup 4 месяца назад

Thanks for uploading man. There aren't too many videos on this subject sadly. I was wanting to do the math on a large scale system, but it is very technical, and confusing. Not a lot of helpful info on the subject, fun little project though!

@jimridge1 4 месяца назад

Thanks for your comment! One of the main reasons for this experiment-fun project was to learn first hand about a system like this with the idea in mind of upscaling to something much larger. Which I still have plans to do. Looking at ways of creating a more viable size reservoir-battery and larger generator capacity.

@user-sr3sd7em3h Год назад

does adding another generator increase the amps generated

@jimridge1 4 месяца назад

Great question! I am not a 100% sure on the answer. I guess one first has to think do you connect them electrically in series or parallel.

@angelaengle12 4 месяца назад

I'm curious if it's possible for this to be a closed system that can cycle the water endlessly and produce power continously.

@morgunbrunelle4573 3 месяца назад

You can, actually. I have a similar set up to this. I made a RAM pump that pumps water from a creek about 43' up a hill to a 275 gallon stock tank. About 3/4's of the way up I drilled a hole and sleeved 1 1/2" pvc into another stock tank that acts as my Hydro Battery. The water then falls down hill from that tank and powers a very similar hydro electric setup than this. The leftover water that passes through my electric setup is fed with a garden hose back down to the creek to be re pumped and cycled once more. The RAM pump is a passive pump that pumps continuously. The initial start up for me took about 48 hours to fill the stock tanks. After that, I have not touched it, and it has been running for about 2 months now.

@taylorkurtz1513 Месяц назад

@@morgunbrunelle4573what do you power with the hydro battery?

@jimridge1 12 дней назад

@@morgunbrunelle4573 That is totally a amazing!!! Thanks so much for sharing your setup description.

@user-kp3vw7hn8z 4 месяца назад

Hello Man, what is that thing called? the color yellow,dynamo motor? Im going to make a project.tnx

@jimridge1 4 месяца назад

Here's the exact title/name from Amazon "Water Turbine Generator Micro Hydroelectric Power Generator DIY LED Power Charging Tool DC 0-80V 10W (80V)". Thanks for your comment.

@rivercovey3906 4 месяца назад

I would like to hook this up to a battery but cannot find any useful videos , do you have a battery you would recommend so I can use this generator to charge a power bank

@jimridge1 4 месяца назад

Great question. But I have to admit I too would probably just go to RU-vid and start looking at DIY videos on building a battery charger (I did look and there are lots of them).