Good morning. Thank you. It's a summer of studio/shop building!

I do have a 3/4" ball valve right before the pma. I could connect a short hose there to help flush debris. Perhaps a future video.

Hydro is a special animal. I should be filming a new install soon. The homeowner is about ready to make the final connections.

Great idea on the rebar. I will need to buy a couple sticks of that and install in the fall. Placing that on the wooden structure at the top would help too!

Very true! It was not locked up but did have some resistance at first.

Isn't there a greasenipple on this thing, to squeeze some grease into the bearing???

@TerrorTubbie666 I know the old one had a grease zert. I need to look closer on this one.

Joey, I was in Corwynn back in the early 80's. Stayed at the Owain Gwyndlar hotel, which at the time was run by an absolute gentleman by the name of Corrie Williams. I'll guarantee I've misspelled all the names except Mr. Williams', so I hope you'll forgive me for that. A buddy and I had come up from the American air base in Suffolk to fish, but owing to some bad info from the base Rod and Gun Club, we missed the trout season by a week. We stayed for a couple of days in spite of that, and had a wonderful time. We hitchhiked up to Bala Lake and camped over night. What a beautiful place. Mr. Williams treated us like family when we returned. Here in my home state of North Carolina, you'll find a lot of Welsh names like Morgan , Davis, and Jones, mostly concentrated in the mountainous western end of the state where I am from. I often wonder if perhaps the immigrants from North Wales pushed inland, found our mountains reminded them of home, and just settled there. All speculation of course, but you never know. I'll never forget my trip to North Wales and the hospitality we were shown. All the best to you and yours, sir.

Thank you.

It does sound that way! I Need to talk to Langstons and see about greasing those.

Wow so many fun things.

I could benefit from a larger pipe or a 4th 1-1/4" pipe but for now my water flow is so low this 3 pipe setup is working well.

@@LandtoHouse Gotcha. I guess like anything else, you have to weigh the cost of the entire project with the total output. You know, the cost/benefit analysis. I know the round about cost of everything up to the "turbine generator", and I also do not know how much each one of those produces. But we all know that every little amp helps.

Thank you.

That might make a good seal! This is 3 phase ac from the pma to the house. Then rectifier.

@@LandtoHouse Perfekt, tack

Alternative power stuff is expensive. I have a cost breakdown video on this system. (shows the difference in real cost vs free youtube items too)

diy is meant to be super cheap, not high dollar

diy life off-grid is very much free

gravity plumping sewage power lol

snail wins over economy hare always

sewage system better not glogg with snails, have it work with wide diameter systems, less maintenance woes

Because the alternator cooling fan airflow is unblocked with the lid open, adding load on the turbine.

HAHA I mean it went all fall without catching a leaf. Not bad. My old screen would be blocked in a day.

@@LandtoHouse wish I had a backyard with a stream I'd be doin the same ting 😄

My thoughts exactly. A simple, coiled loop of the pipe, lying flat. Problem solved.

Hello. If you are siphoning water out I would make sure there is plenty of water going into the pond from the source. Siphoning can pull lots of water out. Once you know the pond will stay full you should be good to go. It is wise to siphon to a bucket then use pipe from the bucket. This results in a stronger pressure wave.

​@@LandtoHousealso to help the pond out I will have and over flow pipe go into an overflow pipe, luckily it is only used when the main is clogged. Any idea how to conserve some of the water coming out the waste valve?

The waste valve is pretty much gonna use a consistent amount of water period you can tilt the valve so that the pump closes with less pressure and that will use less water. But not much can be done to reduce the waste water output.

To supply 30gpm you would need a ram pump at least 2 feet wide. It's actually better to let the water flow into a turbine without a ram pump.

@@LandtoHouse I was just curious if you could make your own head if you didn't have any.

I just did the basic calculation (Head in feet X Gallons per minute) / 10 = power

Math? Pipe up more than 0° this way ^ then water goes down that way v + more up = more better power

@@st.odinson I mean how much exactly power made up from water so you can choose or design the turbine and generator with maximum efficiencies

or wisy vortex filter

I made a cost breakdown on the system both my cost and a non youtuber cost kzfaq.info/get/bejne/gpdmppmSurCUnqc.html

On this hydro unit the water is all making it into the coanda.

400watts x 24 hours ~ 10kwh per day

Way cheaper than connecting to grid in semi remote areas, let alone no-grid areas. Friend of mine was quoted $60K to connect to grid in 1982. They went off grid for about $5K then (mixed solar and mini-hydro, with a marine wind turbine (one of the ones you see on 30-50” yachts). They have been saving a couple of grand every year since then, let alone the $55 THOUSAND dollars (or so) they saved up front. The only upgrades have been new batteries and inverter in the early 90s and new batteries again about 5years ago.

@@shawnd567 Do you have a degree in mathematics? That is an incredible bit of estimation you did there, Professor!

I installed this around 3 years ago. I have a video that walks through each component but no list of each part.

@@LandtoHouse thank you I appreciate it

They will seek the cool water when it gets hot.

Last year it sank down 3 feet! I am much happier with only 6 inches this year.