Brilliant Kris don't be sorry for the wind noise just makes us all listen more intently. And the balancing using an old disc brake now that's recycling. I love watching your progress Kris you bring a lot of pleasure into this world with your style of being. Thanks for sharing.
As an amateur with woodworker, i typically feel overpowered with the entire arrangement ru-vid.comUgkxrYREG3-7f1Aqk9ams3ZESRNzGnfdUtyQ . Be that as it may, this arrangements drove me through with much clarity and effortlessness woodplans. Works i now work like a genius. That is great!
About that wind thing, I m sure many of us would happily chip in for the cost of a clip mic and magnetophone. Thanks again for documenting and sharing your journey, we are avidly taking notes :)
This brother is making things happen, and I'm watching him make things happen. I need to get me a life and follow suit. Goodbye RU-vid... 5 minutes later I'm still 👀
Winglets on the tips would cut down noise and increase efficiency. Like the ones on passenger planes, you see them on big wind turbines now too. They reduce the size of the wing tip vortex significantly where high pressure air on the front face of the wing leaks round the tip to the rear face of the wing
Windtips would work, but a much simpler solution that would work roughly the same (in terms of reducing the noise) is just to round up the tips of the blades.
With the Arduino controlling the hydro, you could set it up to automatically power it down or reduce power output when you have plenty of wind. Then it could crank back up when the wind dies down
~9.6kwh per day from water + ~7.2kwh per day of wind + 2kwh per day of solar = ~18.8kwh per day rough average of energy. I hope your battery can store at least twice that amount otherwise it's a total waste! You would need a 24v 750ah battery to store the amount of energy you could produce in 24 hours so double that and you would need a 1500ah battery at 24v. Nice setup! You are living my dream. You have more energy than you could ever need in a home even with an air conditioner! The shop will take more due to the heavy equipment you have.
You're the most inspiring dude Ive ever come across, in the world, so far Kris. I kinda feel like I know you but not sure ha. AMAZING work. AMAZING life you've created. GENIUS! I grew up in Mid Wales, how about you?
SOLAR,, HYDRO,, & WIND,, WHEN YOU GONNA BUILD THE NUKE PLANT?? LMAO..... ACROSS THE PUDDLE MY 4 OR 5 FRIENDS HAD TO RUN THE TOWERS UP 20 FEET ABOVE THE TALLEST TREES TO GET GOOD POWER.. GOOD LUCK,, LOVE ALL YOUR PROJECTS..
Hi, great to see the progress you are making with the wind turbine but boy it was hilarious to watch you pumping up the mast. All the technology on the mast and a bike pump to make it work 😜.
cubic, windspeed to power. When your batteries are full, are you dumping to make hot water? I believe there are dc elements out there, well at least a 600w 24v one.
That is fantastic. .. would you be able to fit some guide ropes to stiffen the pole ..then jack up the pole to tension them? Ooh and perhaps a stop to prevent a 360 spin ?
waste of time those. make one like this for half the price and learn something along the way. thats what i decided to do. you cant really buy anything mid range its cheap rubbish or big commercial stuff
Tune in this time next year when Kris completes his home made water cooled nuclear reactor which he made from parts salvaged from a skip and some scrap wood.
I am in a good location for wind and i made the blades twice the length then the cheap stuff you can buy. I would not bother going any smaller than this. I might make a monster one day.
@@KrisHarbour With the larger blades you might want to put a more resistive winding so that it turns slower to produce the same power. That is a LOT of kinetic energy spinning there. It doesn't seem like you have an issue with low winds, so you can add more torque. Still a great project even so. Love the pneumatic mast.
Since his is telescoping, he’d benefit from adding steel gussets at the base to brace the bottom section. Steel triangles the height of the bottom section and out near as far as it’s tall. All four sides. Kind of like buttresses.
Right on. "Unlimited POWEERRRRRR" ~ Emperor Palpatine. I take back what I said about similarities to wind turbine from teletubies. Your turbine is mean, and means business. At this rate gov will start taxing you for running a power plant LOL .
That Midnite is that a 150? The power curve for wind, you should give it a try... But I've built 5 Axial Flux Turbines and the people I've built them for just love them compared to the Chinese or the US car PMGs or PMAs... This shows that you don't need a Midnite to make good wind power! Thanks for sharing 😃
With all this abundance of power you need to buy you a golf cart to cart around your land on. And charge it with your solar turbine or water turbine. Maybe even put solar panels on the top. And trick it out. That would be a cool video as well. And you can give us a tour of your land on it.
Hi Kris, I had to delete my previous comment, KUDUS, KUDUS, KUDUS!!!!!!!! Love your practical approach to this challenge, with using what you have at your disposal, love it.
Awesome build! Have you measured what was the average power over the night? I am not sure if I heard correctly in the video or not, wind power is not proportional to wind speed squared, but wind power cubed :) (so it is true that 2 times greater speed will give you 8 times the power)
Great, thanks for clearing that up. For some reason the meter resets the kwh reading every kwh so i dont know how much it made in a 24h period yet. i would guess 5kwh
Very Very impressed Chris would like one myself , could heat all my house on hot water with your turbine, I just need to come up with something a bit stealthy
7:25 saying "lets put the break back on" with an image of your van made me think you were going to put the cut up break rotor back on the van for a second until I realised what you were doing xD I feel so stupid.
Really impressive result. It's a shame you're not on the grid and selling all your spare power back to the power company, you'd make a bloody fortune in Wales. Would there be any value in putting a heavy flywheel in the circuit to stabilise or at least smooth the output a bit, or doesn't it matter that it jumps around with varying wind speeds?
Very nice. You are walking in the steps of La Cour and Henrik Stiesdal. Well done. It reminds be of a visit to Nordtank (now part of Vesta) where we stood around the nacell with a truck brake disk as break. What can be done in terms of small scale wind now with cheaper controls and more parts available - in terms of generators, chargers power electronics etc. good job
You may appreciate these pictures of an other pioneer - the trailer with the turbine to take it to and from the workshop. ing.dk/galleri/kig-i-henrik-stiesdals-fotoalbum-fra-pionertiden-173032#1 You may also appreciate this Left first Vestas wind turbine, rigth new design from Stiesdal ing.dk/galleri/kig-i-henrik-stiesdals-fotoalbum-fra-pionertiden-173032#9
Kris...more batteries needed now fella, between wind and hydro plus solar you have everything you need and more... Well done ;-) once you have everything fine tuned and set to give a balance of life Vs power im sure you will be laughing !
@@KrisHarbour is there an "origin story" video on you that you've made? Something that explains how you're able to build all this, design the things so intricately, and of course afford it all :)
@@gerryn2 Yes I'm particularly interested in the affordability aspect. I've wanted to do something in this vein for years but haven't worked out how financially. Or the legality aspect.
The Brits were smart and used air, which can be compressed offsite. US uses a crank and sections for our tac masts. Crank up, lock, lower the crank, insert new section in the "elevator" and then start cranking again. Its also a guyed tower, but with the blade he won't be able to guy the top two sections. (that is going to be the weakest point in the whole project) If the winds get REALLY nasty he might have to lower the whole mast and rope the blade down. That is part of the testing - you put a strain gauge on the guys and you can tell how much it loads down and you can figure out what the max is. We had a blizzard in the army that messed up the math -- the ice formed a sail backed by wind driven snow and brought down a tower rated much higher for wind loads. It pulled heavy 8 foot augers out of frozen ground and down it went. That was an actual tower, not a mast.
Very interesting project mate. You mention 1150W in your title, I assume that's peak?. But what is the average daily Watt-Hours?.. and average over a month? winter v summer? Thanks.
To prolong the life of the parts on the turbine (inc' blades and rotating parts), you may want to think about the best use of the brakes to get the lowest RPM sweet spot for the best amount of power output. Min RPM, max output; finding the perfect balance. :)
well it actually really likes the RPM that it is fixed to at the battery voltage. it goes passed an unbalanced phase and in to a quite balanced rpm snd it seems to be running quite well so i think i may have got lucky with that to be honest. further testing and experience will tell the full story.
for i-dea - savonius made of boat sail we have never invented better and eliminates over-runaway problem (seen it on FB) - FR patent (which has disappeared, bought by Electricité De France) a drone worth 4,000 euros, made of 8 propellers, 4 to fly, 4 in a turbine, attached to a cable flying in a circle 300m high produces more than a 150m high EDF wind turbine (and maintenance requires simply changing the bearings every year) only problem: requires flight authorization
From my neighbor who tried the off grid thing for 30 years before I started and became his neighbor, he said that wind power is to much process for the trouble, solar is a must and to only use the wind to charge a very healthy number of batteries... I agree, you need to be at maintenance constantly subject to God's fury... We were in New Mexico on the foothill of the Manzano mountain and for months you will have winds at 60mph... Literally I seen it blow a cinder block off the roof holding tar paper down before the wind blew in... I said I'll get back to work on it after the winds die down... Lol everyday was like that, no friggin bueno when you building a house... Mother nature does not play games, when you off grid it's almost like she's intentionally focused on you... I'm not knocking the work that's done here, never that, it's just when a old dude doing it for decades says so, listen... Lol True story same guy, when I bought my land the day we arrive to start the building we realized the hard way that the particular side the property was all loose sand a good 2 ft deep, We got a 1988 k5 4x4 stuck, a 25ft uhaul truck stuck, and the AAA tow truck stuck all on our first day... Fast forward to the day I met the dude for the first time, as I was working on the roof you could see my house now from the main road it was built with earth bags and tires, so my neighbor was being nosey, I'm watching this mini van drive down our road on the roof, it's a good quarter mile, there's nothing but raw land, he lives 2 miles up the road, He gets way closer than anyone has without turning around in fear, you big dude big gun, middle of bfe oh hell nah, but he starts to head down to the sand trap which we called that particular area of the property, he's driving a late 90s early 2000 Nissan quest mini van... Not a truck with big tires, a friggin mini van. So, as I'm trying to get his attention me and my wife trying to wave him off, I'm like man I'm going to have to get him out the sand trap... As I say this, the van makes the 90 degree turn down the driveway like it wasn't anything, My mouth was on the floor.... He pulls up and before introduction I'm like dude, wtf right now, how'd you do that? Lol He's like, oh the sand? Uhh yeah the sand... He's said oh, front wheel drive... Wait what? Yeah, as long as you keep it moving, FRONT WHEEL DRIVE...the heavy trucks, 4 wheels, nah... Front wheel drive is all, I've had every kind of car out here the past 30 years, the van cost me 400 buck 3 years ago... After we talk for good min and he see our build in awe , he drive out into the same sand devil, and made it look so easy... We were in awe like so simple... Lol he and his wife were our desert parents and grandparents to our daughter, miss them so much... But that man was wisdom on two feet...
that is interesting . when i lived at the sowbellies i built a wind mill baste on the old water pumps. wind mill design wit steel fin's. & it went like a steam engine charging my battery bank. I had so much i dubbed the battery bank to drive the milking shed & the house I had to live light's Bern to redubs the the windmills change Back then there wasn't the knowledge their is to day in 1960 . But i must say i have Enjoyed your review on the systems i have been thinking of making ues of a trailer I have to ues as a wind mill & solar panel charging siystom for my house. by using a BC siystom out of a scooter . to Mack a DC changing Siystom , for Batteries. that can used. what di you think ?
Hi Kris. I have built an 9.5 ft axial flux a couple years ago. Great job you have done. Could you tell me where you got your extending pole ,or did you make it. I had considered making an extending pole as well, but have not to date. Thanks for fine info.
1.29 what a gorgeous frame , the sky and that cute little tractor, such a homestead/farm vibe .. great work as always kris , im always inspired by your videos and drive to get things done
Is that mounted on a pneumatic pole? Should go the extra mile, rig it with a small A/C, bleeder valve and voltmeter to lower it if it exceeds a dangerous speed (read via amperage, whatever you reckon’s safe for the motor)- and raise it up into the stream when it’s below that threshold
hey kris, amazing! harness all the elements. i have a question. i know that commercial wind turbines breaks to full stop when the wind is too strong. will you also have this feature so the turbine wont break off? (or fly off hhh). if not, why? is it safe to spin under any wind conditions?
It has a furling tail so that when the wind is to strong it will turn itself out of the wind. I still need to tune that by adding or deducting weight from the tail. But that is its protection.
At some point I'd be very interested to see a proper load test of your mini-grid. I'd like to see just how big a sustained load you can manage to pull, assuming you have the inverters to do it.
wouldn't it be far easier to balance by taking small amounts of weight from the ends of the blade by sanding? Where did the telescopic tower come from?
Maybe he just doesn't show it in the videos, but I can't believe he isn't dancing around with excitement at his creations. I'd be over the damn moon if I built anything as well as he has.
Nice work Kris, amazing output for your unit and I was surprised that it was so well balanced, good on you! A quick thought, not sure if it could be adapted to your unit but what about using a dynamic balancing mechanism from a front load washing machine to fine tune it? Our LG unit balances out the load for high speed water extraction and it would seem it might be made to work for your turbine if someone with your ingenuity had a look into it. Great stuff, really am enjoying your journey and will continue watching with interest, all the best from Beautiful British Columbia, Canada!
yes there is, and it could be done but it would need to be HUGE to be able to supply my peak power needs without batteries. it takes 16kw to start my planner so i would need a huge turbine and huge penstock and huge wiring. its better the way it is at the moment. and with second hand batteries the environmental damage is small.
@@KrisHarbour i didn't think of that. Im sure you'll find something better to do with the Power! Giant ceiling fan for the shop? Thats what i thought the wind turbine was in the wall 'disaster' video!
@@KrisHarbour I meant build another axial flux generator to replace the generator on the hydro setup. I'm positive it would be a sizeable improvement as long as you get the keeping it cool fan right.
Oh i see. Yeah i have thought about that. but im prototyping the turbines for sale and it would not be cost effective to had make the alternator. i may well do one as an experiment one day though.
Epic, i have two chinese turbines ,one is running through a midnite classic 250, the other connected to lead acid, just tie it up in high wind and you are good to go, serious power off it !
Great job Kris. Might want to consider painting the tips of the blades a bright color as a safety measure, like they used to do on airplane propellers.
King of power ! Nice job Kris :) I'm building a cob chicken house this summer and would love to talk to you about it if that's OK ? Been following you from day day one, keep it up Man
