Debut of the TesTur Micro Home Power Plant! Thanks to all who have helped us get here!

People say, the Tesla Turbine is too high of RPM with too low torque.” This guy is like, “….. shut up hold my beer 🍺!” Love these videos.

you got to make it very clear that you are not suicidal and have no chronic deadly illnesses

For vacuum feedthroughs I will use a solid copper wire with RTV silicone to seal it. Should work plenty good enough for what you are doing, likely not going to work very well if you're making vacuum tube amplifiers or something like that.

You are conducting the highest quality work with these concepts. Like no one else is. You are taking the foundation of what Tesla started & blending it with our modern advancements & capabilities that were never available to people in the past. Plus i haven't seen someone approach these ideas at this top tier quality tinkering work. Seriously, your grasp of engineering, physics, science, electrical work, etc. Is at a level that pretty much seems like someone could hire you right on to their professional program and provide you with a position and you guys can work on projects in a full on laboratory and work shop. Keep up the great work 🤘🏻

Amazing-it looks like you on the cusp of a breakthrough! Stay the course!

Great vid dude!

The Algorithm has chosen you sir! Did not disappoint!

Nice dude! I’ve spent some time researching this but you took it to the real deal! Congratulations to you and to all humanity!

Love watching this project take shape!

spark plugs were formerly used as electrical feed througs by my retired professor who worked on UHV systems.

Your excitement of physics and genius ramblings are my goals in life. Thanks for sharing.

Dont think I understood a single word but goodjob, keep improving it and change the world

Thank you for sharing

KEEP ER GOIN, MAN!

You're so cool lol and the memes just 💯 timeless

Very cool!

Spectacular!🤔

Wawww may you say true !! Impressive work bro congrats ! 👏👏👌🔥🔥

Creative video, thanks :)

Try spark plugs for a cheap electrical feed through.

So happy to see an update and progress! You’re doing great work!

As a plumber, I appreciate the choice of pex.

I need more friends like this lol

Righteous my Brother!! Looks as if the TT has forced your hand into upgrading it lolz. Quite honestly, probably at least half of the sound coming from the vacuum vessel.

Hi

Wow

I'll look around in sci glass world for a cheaper electric feed through option

Now I want one.....I need a tutorial video XD

Exciting!!!

Be safe brother,please just be safe and we are waiting for you to show us the path 🫡🔥🫶

Filling for life. Might just put your video on repeat to give you more adrev

Simply brilliant! I have been thinking about this for years and you have actually done it! Bravo!

Very Impressive! Nicely done Charlie. Thanks for taking us on the R&D journey

Legendary

I am nerding out so much about this, I’m gonna have to build one. For sure!

that's quite a legit machine you've made there

Yes a solar fresnel lens mass thermal storage with expansion tanks would cool and prove energy for an entire building

i wish you the best in your search. i have been looking for a solar steam generator to make my own electric. this is the closest i have found so far. it seems to be well worth the cost, compared to electric panels, but no one has broke down the cost for me to compare. i especially like that use of the tesla turbine. i know it's got low speed torque, and i'm always thinking ???? when people say it doesn't have good torque. so i'm glad you made that clear. then i hear it is not as effecient as the turbines we use in industry today. but i don't know about cost. i have no way of comparing cost of tesla turbine, logevity, cost of ueage over time. all i know is that it was tesla's one most favorite invention. he thought it was the key to flight and other things and it was not being used.

Bang on charlie. Ask us to thumbs up the video next time too

Badass!

So the giant projector tvs have fresnel lenses that can heat like crazy could these be used to create steam here?

Dude this is beyond amazing work. I'm from South Africa where the state owned electricity provider hasn't been able to keep up with the demand for the last 20 years. This would be of great help to developing nations.

Thank you Charlie Vy nice instructive video Any pellet driven steam generator accompanied by the tesla disk turbine generator in the works ? Gd luck with your projects And plse be safe

Awesome

Great Job Charlie. Got me interested in building your solar cryophorus system and make it fit in my tiny residential backyard of 12m by 3m and with low ambient noise to enable good relationship with close neighbours here in Victoria Australia.

Hey man it’s Kusal from IG! Glad to connect! This is amazing. I’ve had vision of an amazing boat, plane concept and using steam and da Vinci-esk with pulley. So cool you have some awesome tech. If I ever become bless to do boat venture in my 50s. I know Who is ask as my Anthony stark (iron man’s dad who was the best engineer) This is amazing tech for future homes .

Where do you source all those stainless steel parts

Also for a cheap electrical feed through could you just connect to the tank for ground and then put a copper plate with a gasket that has electrical connections soldered to it and bolt it on in a 360 encapsulating pattern

Yoooo! Amazing progress, the turbine sounds incredible in vacuum, and that violent boiling was just incredibly exciting, not to mention your pressure relief lever hahaha, so sick! Can't wait to see more. Just thinking about your feedthrough problem, there's always uber expensive solutions whenever you utter the words "feedthrough" I experienced the same thing when I was trying to figure out how to lift a basket up and down out of oil in my vacuum fryer and made the mistake of even considering paying for an expensive feedthrough! I just bent some CS rods inside of SS tubing, sealed it shut, attached it to the basket with SS wire wrap and used magnets to lift it. But I digress, can't you drill a hole and use a cable gland? Besides the standard nylon ones for weatherproofing and strain relief, there are tougher metal glands on top of there being another class called sealing glands and should easily be able to pass a multiconductor cable while withstanding a paltry 13psi vacuum. I think sealing glands are advertised as going as high as 150 psi and are used in harsh environments. I mean the manifold that BVV includes with their chambers already uses half of what a cable gland uses. Threaded body, locknut on the inside, and flat rubber washer on the outside to make seal. Check it out!

Amazing. Never Quit.......

A threaded well should work fine. Get someone to tig one in wherever you need it. The probe will screw in. You can get prox switches with a full threaded body to sense the pickups. Screw them in to the desired insertion depth then double nut them.

Here's an idea for the electrical pass-thru into the vac chamber. Remove the insides of an old vacuum gauge. Machine a Teflon puck that just fits the empty housing, drill 2 holes straight into the visible face and link them up with angles holes from a single point on the side, where the wires will be routed down through the pipe and into the chamber. Silicone the inside walls of the gauge housing and then press in the prefabbed puck, lining up the hole in the edge with the pipe. Route wires up through the pipe and out through the holes in the face (use fishing line or something to pull the wires through). Connect the wires to your terminals, silicone the holes, set the terminals in and wait for it to cure. You could adapt this to some other design that feeds through the vac gauge port.

What an amazing creation! Ps. "Charlie Solis didn't kill himself"

holy shit🤯

there was a weird forum post cant remember where that mentioned you could use the spiral distribution of fluid on the TT to actually use it as a turbine engine by feeding it an air fuel mixture from the edges that would flow down to the center , eventually the discs would match the flame velocity at the edge and you wouldnt need to reignite the fuel each time. wonder how real that claim is, so i figured i might as well ask you in the comments lol.

Did made something like that over twenty years ago. But a lot more crude. I also use the condensor as a heat exhanger that is heating a 3000 liter boiler , a 500 liter boiler for the use of hot water. Indirect i heat my floor with it and several radiators. In a weekend i can make the electricity meter go back to zero. Not actually zero but i can generate enough power what we did use during the week. Yours is way more refined. In an entire month it uses 1 m3 of wood. But it has no use to generate more electricity. And with the 3000 liter boiler i can heat my entire home every day. Not when it gets below below 0 degrees. But i have 4 other woodstoves also. Used a woodstove from the brand Flam as the heating chamber. And an old very thick walled boiler on top of that. Sadly it makes way to much noise. Tried a lot of insulation. It helps but not enough. I know that it is very illegal in my country. We have strict laws for using pressured steam. And to be honest it is also very logical because when it goes then it goes. Around the boiler on top of the stove surrounded it with 8 mm steelplates. And made that stronger by welding 10 mm thick flat steel around it. On top of that is the connection for the exhaustpipe that has an inner diameter of 200 mm. The Flam stove has two 30 mm thick cast iron plates that are round. Connected in the middle to each other. Every plate has holes in it that functions as a venturi. And the plates can be turned on each other. By that creating a larger or tinier venturi for the air intake. When those venturi's are fully open and the stove is full with wood then the flames go 4 meters into the exhaust pipe and around the boiler / heat exhanger for boiling the water and creating steam. When the system is cold it only takes 15 minutes to get it fully working. And i constantly have to put in wood. I see large blocks vaporising before my eyes. And it becomes so hot that you have to distance yourself atleast two meter from the glas door. Through its entire life until know that stove burned thousends of M3 of wood. And it is so well made that it is still as new. A beautifull stove with a big ass ugly farkle on top of it. That probably one day will kill us all. Made a safety 6/4 inch thick walled tube to the outside. When i turn the valve steam comes outside of my house. And although my closed neighbours are 800 meters away they still get a bit mad when i have to do that. Luckily not often because the sound of escaping steam makes them deaf even at 800 meters. And getting to much attention is also not good. For sure i have hearing damage from the time alone that i was experimenting. And whenever i will sell my hone i will break it down. To be sure that noone after me will one day get killed. Cause you constantly have to need your focus on it while it operates. A few times i have been looking into batteries. So we could get rid of the electricity company. But that is still today not a good option. Even when buying cheap 18650 elements and spotwelding them the costs are still way to high. When you want to have enough juice to power everything in your home. I know that my generator has a lot of design flaws. That it all could be made a lot better but until know it functions and when people bring me waste-wood it saves a lot of money. And 80 percent of the year it heats my entire home. A bit to large home. The roof is 1450 M2. Impossible to heat that with gas or electricity. If i would have the energy i would build a new one. But after 70 years that has gone. Would be great in the future to go out with a big bang. And it keeps my visiting family away in the weekends. So it is still a win / win situation. That monster is placed in the kitchen. And can't check how thick the metal still is. After so many years here and there it probably has got some weak spots. And can you be really sure that pressure safety valves will kick in the way they should ? It is all mechanical. A bit jealous about the modern intelligent kids who also have access to tools that i back then could only dream of. And happy to see that a lot of people are getting back into steam. 🙏

I know of people using simple spark plugs as electrical feed throughs on a vacuum deposition chambers for semiconductor research. You just break of the ground electrode and use the center electrode for the feed through. If you intend to transfer significant amounts of electricity, rather than just sensor data, you need to use conductive core (old style) spark plugs without the resistive material designed for radio interference suppression.

Thoughts on running the tesla turbine with liquid water and lowpressures? Also is the vacuum only in the chamber thats on the table or also somewhere else in the system, and what does it benefit? Edit: Also what material is your discs and whats the spacing on them?

very cool.

LET'S GOOOOOOOO!!!!!!

Is that iron oxide in your fountain water?

Just found your channel and I'm loving it. Sorry if this is a noobish question but what do you want to do with the electrical feed through? If it's to get sensor data on the speed of the turbine and no need to pass a lot of power through then you might do will with a micro processor with low power wireless and a battery. Maybe and induction coil to power it if you want to run it for a long time but I'd imagine you tear this thing down fairly regularly. A lot of microprocessors are designed to consume bugger all power when they are asleep these days, even a small lipo battery can last a long time.

I hate how you are the only one making these. ITS SO CHEAP. Literal aluminum disk turbine. Its insane.

Ahmen brother, any more info on the configuration. Im pinging around with concepts with hero's engine to limit mechanical points of failure. Build the magnets onto the direct shaft and stator coils on the outside. only issue I can think is filling the hero's engine. I want to use it in Alaska wilderness to be the first bio fueled electric steam ebike to do the bicycle race.

how would this integrate with solar? btw solar right now is hot

so how much electricity this system can produce. In this experiment, you did not do any measurments

Where did you get a dynamo or power generator any info you can share.

very interesting it looks complicated to build though

I love love love this. Through a glass roof on your house to concentrate heat with a dirt cheap concave mylar emergency blanket lense and you've got solar CHP for life for pennies.

Electric pass thru? Do you not have a purple electric insulator acting as a seal for the chamber? I see an electrically separated positive and negative right there.

Impressive engineering!!! Have you considered putting permanent magnets on the turbine shaft and having the magnetic flux jump the pressure barrier through a glass or plastic wall? Or putting the whole PMA inside the pressurized system and only bringing the wires out?

F yeah we could hear it! Jeez. Almost sounded there for a bit like it had no ceiling. Curious: What enclosure are the blades in to where you are safe standing right there? Or are you safe? Also, where is all of the water going if it is a sealed system like I am assuming? I know you said that heat comes off the cooling tower, but I thought that was radiant.

What are the pros/cons of using steam instead of compressed air? I've been dreaming up a system that would use wind power (Midwest USA) to turn a compressor. I'm thinking of using super-high pressure carbon fiber air tanks to run a tesla turbine. Magnetic bearings and magnetic gearboxes would be used to cut out energy loss as much as possible. Biomass would be a really neat option, so I'm not ruling out steam yet. Thanks for your work and expertise. I love the energy you are bringing to this project!

I would love to see it in a car and bet a dodge challenge jailbreak! STEAM is KING !

Should your turbine not use all of your heat energy? Not a fan (lol) of wasting heat energy. Could be saved or used for home hot water

Best of luck scaling this up for larger power production. Recommendation: use magnetic bearings to reduce friction loss.

can you power this by using a big fresnel lense to superheat the steam?

do you know what flowrate of steam this system was producing? I am curious how large of a solar steam generator you would need to run this.

we need backyardscientist or another big creator who loves to invent/learn how others do things to do a video with you, more people need to see this!

I wish I understood any of this. I'd really like to try to get a steam turbine to produce some power by using the heat produced by hot composting.

..can it fit inside a car to recharge batteries automatically

Have you ever checked out those rotary steam generators. They produces steam through rotation. They use cavitation to produce steam. You have to be careful with cavitation as it does produce radiation, but I believe that would be more efficient than using an resistive electrical heater.

Strap a VSS( vehicle Speed Sending unit) on the outside of your motor generator. It will pick the field polarity and give you a heartbeat to read from a safe distance from the steam. Granted you will need to determine the ( electric) ratio. 3 2/3 ≠1 DC =3.66÷2 4pole DC = 4 Blcd=3.66÷3 4pole bldc= 3.66÷6 Ect

What if you implemented this turbine with modern heating or electrical grid systems. Do you thing it will work and give out same if not even more power?

Looks awesome! Sorry for my ignorance, but why is this a big deal. What makes this superior to a conventional steam turbine?

Can other working fluids work with this such as high temp helium?

I'm interested in motorsport performance applications of a Tesla turbine (less lossy forced induction). Heat exchanger on exhaust manifold and Tesla turbine replacing either the impeller side of a turbo or both the impeller and compressor. Not sure if Tesla turbine can sustain higher pressure as a compressor. Figured you were the man to ask, you think this is feasible?

Is it creating its own vacuumed when you place the pot on top of it?

Dang dude

Look I'm not a physicist and I couldn't explain to you the properties of supercritical fluids. But I am handy, mechanically minded, and have access to a CNC to cut the parts. Would you consider doing a write up and include drawings/dxf for the parts so a competent everyman could make this?

Incredible work, what are the main drwabacks you are having? I would love to help with what I can, I am actually building my own, although I am taking a different route since my plan is to use the tesla turbine to power an electric motor and move a small car!

Hello brother that's insane 🛐💀 Brother what if we use aerofoil flat shapes at the corner of discs as spacers. Due to laminar flow boundary layer will remains same and another force will be added due to aerofoil spacers at discs corners . Its my idea if you think it's good then i m gonna try this

That's really impressive stuff. Why does the turbine need to be in a vacuum in the first place?

Damn here i thought i was smart LOL

What about using a steam educator to .aintain the vacuum? Also, the heated steam drum would need an Akaliniy phosphate and chloride test due to scale deposits every 168 hours so copper I. The heat exchange 90 10x copper nickel be a good heat exchanger and would require less heat for the same energy which could be used as another source of free energy. Nice build. my man peace a d love to ya a d have a blessed day!

I'm literally dumpster diving for this. Did you know that by reverse engineering the pyramids you get the khemetical process for amonnia? Amon Ra..... Look at the cardioid pump of the heart, you will figure it out ;)

What made you choose 10 in disc and how thick of you don't mind me asking?

Hello, I am fascinated by your work. I am very familiar with the tesla turbine design, and have an engineering background, career degree blah. So I do not need the explanation of how that aspect works and I have understood your design aspects with respect to the turbine. I was reading on an insta post you were estimating 40% efficiency with room for more. I am curious as you mentioned the calculation was somewhere on your YT. Could you share it? Like I mentioned you have my attention. Have you laid out the design on a flow chart? I assume you have, but I have not seen it drawn out and it might be helpful for folks to understand what your doing. Thanks

Jim glad there's people smart enough to continue Nicolas work... This is awesome man!