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Posted by Cydrome Leader on September 26, 2008, 1:44 am
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> Im facing a problem this winter trying to keep the batteries up. I
> have a small stream down the hill from the house that seems to be the
> logical source for power. Last year We purchased gas and ran a small
> generator into the ground trying to maintain batteries. This year
> with financial grips a bit tighter, Im thinking that the generator is
> out.
>
> Here is my issue. I have an old scrapped out 1000i generator and had
> a shaft made to run a couple pillow block bearings and a pulley as the
> power input. Now the plan is to build a water wheel and spin the
> shaft at whatever RPM is required to create 120V output to transmit
> the power up the hill. Im a bit shaky on all the math thats required
> for all this so I thought I would drop you all a line and get some
> advice.
>
> Some factors to consider.....
> Overall goal: 5-10 amp charge @ 12 volts 24 hours per day.
> Generator would be roughly 500' from the batteries.
> generator is capable of 1000W at 120 Volts after the inverter.
>
> The plan was to run a small solid state charger at the batteries to
> simply maintain the batteries. We dont use that much power.
>
> Soooo the big question.... how many amps are required to run a small
> 10 amp charger???? I need this to calculate the wire run. Im
> clueless about how to figure out the amprage requirements.
measure it. Having somebody on the internet guess and then you running out
to buy 1000 feet of wire is asking for failure.
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