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Tuesday, March 11, 2025

DIY 1kW Arduino MPPT Solar Charge Controller (WiFi ESP32)

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Friday, February 14, 2025

A One-Line Diagram for BMHydro

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As a small (20kW) micro hydro, pico grid installation, our local utility deemed our two connected residences, "commercial, demand net ...
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A brief history of Buttermilk Micro Hydro

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A brief history of Buttermilk Micro Hydro vs ORU Prior to 2006, 2 separate ORU residential accounts existed.  2006 to 2014: The same two res...
Monday, February 10, 2025

Switching to all electric

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Electrifying school buses means cleaner air for children. We’re urging Congress to invest $20 billion   so school districts can make the swi...
Saturday, February 8, 2025

The Man Who Took LSD and Changed The World

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Wednesday, February 5, 2025

How to Install a Ethos Battery Backup System with Solar

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Wednesday, January 11, 2023

Snow plow frame for Rivian: zero vehicle modification.

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After waiting for two years I got my Rivian #14201 delivered on November 12, 2022.   Love the truck, and tested every feature and mode in th...
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Monday, December 26, 2022

See what happens when a stock electric truck takes on the infamous Hells...

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Sunday, October 10, 2021

Repairing the D&H Canal in Cuddebackville to hold water once again.

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Affiliate member of The Delaware & Hudson Transportation Heritage Council www.dhthc.org Robert J.Honders, Sr., is the Neversink Va...
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Sunday, March 31, 2019

Repairing our hydro power dam in pictures.

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We finally got around to repairing the 1820's stone and cement dam that had been holding a very small impoundment (1000 gal) of water f...
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Saturday, August 15, 2015

Approaching two years of grid storage operation.

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To date we have accumulated about 40,000 kWh stored excess in the grid after almost 2 years of grid connected operation while powering 2 ho...
Monday, February 9, 2015

Turbine RPM / Valve Control with Programmable Logic (Arduino)

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A small niobium magnet attached (tape works) to the turbine/generator shaft creates a narrow pulse at pin 2 of the Arduino for each revolu...
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Saturday, March 29, 2014

BMH Documentation (Draft)

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BMH Power Plant Engineers Operating Manual August 2014 Robert J. Honders Sr. C.E. Summary A micro hydro t...
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Rob
Cuddebackville, New York, United States
I am a retired electronics engineer, educator, businessman and builder of micro hydro installations for fun and sometimes even profit. This one uses a pump/motor as a turbine/generator using a 200 ft waterfall in our back yard. It is currently producing 15KW. I will be tweaking it to take advantage of greater winter flows. It's not the product, but the process... I enjoy doing the most with the least. So this renewable energy source cost less than $2 per watt of capacity not counting any labor and engineering.
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