Anyone have any thoughts on the Harbor Freight generators....(inside)

 

I'm curious about the Chicago Electric motorless generators
including the PTO ones.  I want to run one from a waterwheel.

Anyone?

TIA

Rick

 

kelvin_cool_ohm wrote:

How do you plan to gear the waterwheel up to drive the generator at 3600
RPM and govern it at that speed to stabilize the output frequency?
Likely easier to use truck alternators to generate DC, charge a battery
and feed an inverter.

Pete C.

 



Simply that PTO dirven Generators have an input Shaft speed of 540 Rpm.
which is then geared up to the appropriate syncronus Rpm for the
generator design.  Just about any FARMER knows that PTO shaft speeds
are 540 Rpm.......

 

You wrote:

I'm well aware of 540 / 1000 RPM PTO speeds, however I haven't seen many
waterwheels turning at 540 RPM, more like 30 RPM at most. A water
turbine might hit 540 RPM but would need to be pretty large to generate
enough torque for most any PTO generator.

Pete C.

 

Pete:

This 30 RPM has enough torque ?

I have a small stream running in my property and I am thinking to generate
some electric power outta it. Stream is not big but run year round. Fall is
probably 5-6 inches and  depth is between 1-8 inches and width is at one
point around 7 ft and other point it is just 2 ft.  I was thinking to built
a small dam kinda thing where stream height is 1-8 inches. Flow of water is
slow.  I have no idea what RPM I will get and how much torque it will
generate. I have couple of PM DC motors sitting with different power output
....sounds like gotta try one by one.