Will you use heat from it too? Water has a high thermal mass....
That is an impressive we flow rate, and down by the hill you can get enough head pressure to make power generation reliable! Nice toy....
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.... Well, we will use all the excess electricity that we produce that we cannot store in our battery array to heat water so in a sense kind of. π
We are hoping that we will be able to put a 1000 watt turbine on this set up and spin it 24/7.
And as much fun as it has been designing, engineering, and finally building the dam.. and as much fun as doing the same for the hydroelectric will be.. it is far from a toy, this will be the only way we will be able to have air conditioning. And, our solar array has always been a temporary solution to creating our on power, I can't wait for it to be our backup system. Righ now we live on 2500-2800 watts of electricity being generated daily. On the turbine is spinning, we hopefully will produce 18,000-20,000 watts a day, pretty easily. It will be a life changer.ππ And one we're definitely ready for. Good by mini-fridge, hello full size fridge. We will get a deep freezer too...and of course the air conditioning will be wonderful.π¬οΈπ¬οΈ
There are solar be asked fridges and freezers that run on DC, and draw it less than 70 watts. I'm looking at a pair of mini splits that draw about 900 watts for each one ton (12,000 BTU) unit. I plan to use two for the whole house.
I will be adding a wind generator too, already found a 1700 watt unit that will actually generate about 600 watts in my local average wind velocity. I will build my own dump resistor for it from ceramic resistors, to save money. They will heat water directly.
I plan to use 24 volts for the entire house, with inverters for equipment that doesn't Come in DC models.
If you run the water into a heat exchanger for a heat pump, you can use the water temperature for a heat sink.
I like the dam, and would like to add hydroelectric in my system. But I'm by a lake with no flowing water close, and they already make a little power from it a few miles east of me.
