Guys. I am new to your forum but I feel you can help me understand some fundamentals of power generation. I will try to keep this brief and to the point. I have been watching the guys on youtube with their ceiling fan conversions to make power. I made 2 so far. Difference with me is, I am attempting to use one on my water wheel system. Here is the problem. When I do bench testing of the unit I am getting 75 volts DC. Today I installed the unit on the belt drive system of my water wheel. Same results, about 78+ volts DC. When I hook up leads to a battery to see how it charges, water wheel slows way down and only makes 12.4 or so volts. Granted, its more than static voltage of the battery, but nowhere close to 78 volts.
SO.. I thought I would take my solar controller I just purchased and try installing it in the system to see If anti reversing diodes or something is what was loading up the water wheel generator. SAME results. Is there a fundamental law of electron theory that I am missing? I am very new to all this so its very possible. I eventually want to incorporate a combination off grid system of solar and hydro thru a hybrid controller. I will really be counting on you guys when that time comes BTW.
For my current issue, am I doing something wrong? I understand that using the solar controller for hydro wont work long term due to no dump load circuit, I just tried it for a minute to see if it helped with the wheel slowing way down. Is there some other piece of electronics that I should be using in the generator circuitry? IE, capacitor, transistor, etc? All I currently have in the circuit is 2 sets of winding in the ceiling fan (4) wires total. Split into 2 pairs for each set of windings. I run each set thru a bridge rectifier and then connected together after rectification right to the battery. The moment I hook up the wires to the battery, the wheel nearly stops, and voltage drops from 78+ to 11-13 volts.
Sorry I was so wordy guys, but I wanted to give you all the specs that I know. There is just gotta be a way to get energy from this creek. I am anxious to hear back from you on what (if anything) I am doing wrong. TKS
Buck..
SO.. I thought I would take my solar controller I just purchased and try installing it in the system to see If anti reversing diodes or something is what was loading up the water wheel generator. SAME results. Is there a fundamental law of electron theory that I am missing? I am very new to all this so its very possible. I eventually want to incorporate a combination off grid system of solar and hydro thru a hybrid controller. I will really be counting on you guys when that time comes BTW.
For my current issue, am I doing something wrong? I understand that using the solar controller for hydro wont work long term due to no dump load circuit, I just tried it for a minute to see if it helped with the wheel slowing way down. Is there some other piece of electronics that I should be using in the generator circuitry? IE, capacitor, transistor, etc? All I currently have in the circuit is 2 sets of winding in the ceiling fan (4) wires total. Split into 2 pairs for each set of windings. I run each set thru a bridge rectifier and then connected together after rectification right to the battery. The moment I hook up the wires to the battery, the wheel nearly stops, and voltage drops from 78+ to 11-13 volts.
Sorry I was so wordy guys, but I wanted to give you all the specs that I know. There is just gotta be a way to get energy from this creek. I am anxious to hear back from you on what (if anything) I am doing wrong. TKS
Buck..
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