Low Head Water Turbine -Free Build Tutorial 

Well, it's been much requested and a long time coming, but the full step by step build tutorial for the siphon hydro turbine is finally finished. I hope you find it useful, and if so please share it to any groups, forums, FB pages, subreddits, email lists etc that you think may find it interesting. I don't get a lot of views from the algorithm, so it's going to mostly come down to community reach and word of mouth to get this in front of those it'd hopefully benefit. Full step by step tutorial text: opensourcelowtech.org/water_turbine.html And thanks to all of you for the sustained impatience in this finally getting done, it's been great to see how many people are keen to start making and using this technology. Any questions email me, or post them here and I'll make sure to be of help as I'm able. Cheers all. ~Daniel

I have followed your channel for some time and I know that this is the result of many years of work, with a lot of challenges along the way to put it mildly! To open source the design with such a professional video is staggeringly impressive. This is precisely the attitude that will save this world from going down the pan for good. Respect and thanks to you! 👍🙏💚

It was the ending which made everything awesome

Possibly the best use of 3D for an elearning I have ever seen.

Thank you for sharing! We need this kind of togetherness on the planet

Details on materials, tools, and step by step build instructions are available (free) at: opensourcelowtech.org/water_turbine.html Any questions let me know.

Wow, this is incredible...not just the concept but how everything is put together. 👏👏👏

Awesome video. I've seen the earlier iterations and really like all the small but genius improvements on the design.

While the chances of me having somewhere to make use of a turbine approach zero I can see how incredibly valuable this video is, very smart placing the electrical part out of the water via a fan and shaft enabling it to be built with cheap easily found parts. Excellent video, anyone can quickly grasp what is involved, great choice in background music as well :)

Thank you for this video. It is so clear and easy to follow. It was a joy to watch. I wish all construction videos were made like this, a joy to watch.

This really is something valuable, thanks and for sharing the tutorial, and congratulations for the work and effort, it will help a lot of people.

Thank you so much from France !! You are a very good person to do this

That was brilliant and beautiful to watch!!

What a nice video, incredible approach for step by step explanation, keep up the good job!)

Congrats to the person who made this video. Very cool instructions. Good stuff!

Great video. I’m looking forward to trying to build this!

Phenomenal, need more ppl like you... All the best.

A high quality, well-made video 👏

Very cool! I’ve been interested in the project’s progress since finding you a couple/few years ago. This is super helpful.

I waited for it, and it's better that I was expecting for. Thank you so much !!

Very well done. Great animation. Thank You.

Great detailed instructions! Enjoy your videos immensely!

My dog loved this.

Wow this is easy to follow along. Thanks again for doing this.

wonderful work as usual

All instructional videos should be shown this way ,

Phenomenal engineering and animation skills! Kudos!

Well done sir. Love it.

I have been waiting for this video for quite some time..THANK YOU!!!

Great job Daniel 👍👍👍

Amazing work.

Thank you so much producers.

Well done! Keep it up!

I was more impressed with the animations. Very clever, got me to watch the whole vid.

Thanks a lot for sharing your knowledge ! :)

Hi, that was fantastic animation mate! nice one! take care and have a great day!

This is mesmerizing to watch 😮

I have also used plastic cutting boards for years for various other purposes, the opening shot showing one being hole sawed up cracked me up!

That animation was awesome! Thanks

Excellent video. Thanks so much for your good work.

Very good video and a lot of work! Thank you!

Impressive animation. Thanks

Very relaxing and informative and motivational - all in 1!😊

A lot of thanks, well done m8!

Stunning Video!

Sweet plans! Thanks!

Wow, those animations are sooooooo good.

Thankyou! In Asia trying to come up with micro hydro ideas for IDPS and refugees and medical clinics. solar does not work well in rainy season. Not sure I can replicate this but the success is encouraging.

Nicely done!

The best video ever!

Nice video, thanks for sharing it :)

Nice work, bro 😊)

Very well done.Thank you for your hard work.

This is a very good tutorial video for me. I hope to see more other types of self-build hydro generator.

Great animation.

What a wonderful video

Brilliant concept. Beautiful animation.

Lovely Build, Beautiful Video... very professioanl. Thank you

I am just shocked by the detail of that animation, well done

Thank you. Very nicely done.

Great video

Fantastic music, great graphics…thanks for putting this together…you’re getting a subscription from me!

Great Video!

sounds terrific ^^

awesome idea! a slight decrease in pipe size and a cone on the fan would slightly improve performance, and adding another prop should add more torque, but may reduce overall speed, these are the projects that change the world, little by little.. great stuff..

Awesome. Congrats, you'we done great work! I think this could also be used as a jet unit for a boat or ski jet. It just needs a reduction in the output to increase pressure.

I've subbed this channel for a long time and am always impressed. You've outdone yourself his time. 👍

Yeah man , thank you so much ! I'have made one and it's work . I Will try to put three of them along the pipe. Good Luck to you

Brilliant ! one for the algorithm.

Thank you for the video

This is crazy awesome 😂

Nice video!

Thank you for your amazing video here. Really incredible graphics and easily understandable for a lay person like myself

awesome video. such graphics my god

brilliant! ❤🎉

Amazing ❤❤❤

Pretty chill music

Thank you.

Awesome animation👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

this is an awesome Video! Everything shown super clear and without the need of reading. Wich is good for a world wide usage.

So Excited for this! Do we / can we create a community map of places where it may be suitable to install this?

this is an awesome concept. I will attempt and probably fail at making it.

Hi Daniel. Thank you soooo much for sharing this tutorial. I am a woman in Ireland rural living and am going to try this as i have a small river on my land. Hopefully it will be a success. Can you show me how to connect this up to store and use electricity for my mobile home if poss. I think you are awesome helping people to source their own electricity and everything else you do around the world. We need more people in the world like you ❤❤❤😊😊😊

very nice!!! yes but I would at moment 1.31 turn around these bolds around as they might get lost inside the tube

omg finally done

Question: adding a Second, or Additional Impellers / Fans, to capture more Energy, has that been considered?

I would like to bulid this one. Just curious to know - here only one alternator has been used. Can we put additional alternators making some changes? And also the alternator and turbine specifications are not mentioned.

Beautiful animation. You're easily good enough to be doing that professionally FYI

Hello Daniel amazing vidéo it gives a very good understanding. I’m considering this year adapting something like this at the back of my boat to generate power from the sailing speed. My question is how do you plug this onto batteries, any charger contoler, fuse, to make sure you don’t overcharge in case of high speed ? Thanks again for all the work and the sharing.

Superbe graphics!

Это очень круто !!! и доступно !!!

Well-Done

How much power [W] it can generate and how much Volts? I need min 200V DC to plug it (through bridge rectifier) to PV inverter

Daniel, thank you for the link, looks great and pretty straight forward to build. I have a fast flowing stream that I could use, so I should be able to generate good power. At 35 l/s flow does it generate 5kwh per day or hour? Also do you have a recommendation for an inverter that can be used.

Sweet !

I'm very interested in seeing results of setting something like this up maybe beefier in conjuction with a mechanical, ram pump. And wired up in series🤔 4:37. For a homestead. That's supplied off the rampump, through a Charcoal & sand filter...

Obrigado

This isn't open source, it's just DIY... But thank you for sharing.

I like how he must've made several iterations of this design and thought 'no, I can make it cheaper'

Grazie.