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Friday, January 18, 2008

Operator Manual Excerpt: Fine Tuning Micro Hydro

BMH Power Plant Engineers Operating Manual August 2014 Robert J. Honders Sr. CE Summary A micro hydro turbi...

Tuesday, January 15, 2008

Using pumps as turbines, motors as generators

Typical Pump/Motor for high head turbine. ...... A capacitor bank. Using a Pump/Motor as a Turbine/Generator is straight...

Sunday, January 6, 2008

Our drainage area from Google Earth, 1.6 sq mi

Monday, November 26, 2007

Convert your oil heat to electric.

But why you ask. Well, some very few of us have extra electricity to burn. This can happen if you are lucky enough to be able to harness a w...

Tuesday, July 17, 2007

Run it in reverse. Pump/motor as turbine/generator

Download PDF : http://www.scribd.com/doc/3198677/3-phase-motor-as-1-phase-generator-diagram

Monday, July 16, 2007

Protect hydraulic hoses

Twist the block around the plastic hose to make wiring harness or hose cover. This is not the main thrust of this blog but I wanted to ...

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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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