Building A Floating Water Wheel

The wheel buckets cut from pvc pipe.

Building a floating water wheel. You can buy the hardware you need at any hardware store and the kinetic dynamo can be purchased online. Mainly a water wheel electric generator has two major components. The wheel in operation. May 20 2020 i travel in africa where this is needed i am working to build a functional model most of these shown are good ideas but really designed to prove they can do it and not designed for actual use.

Shaft bearings and primary gear. Some pictures of the water wheel. Inspired by another fellow youtuber this water whee. Clue to have millions of people to use they need it to work in the small creek a depth of no more than 1 foot then we have something of value.

The largest wheel is the one which holds the water and the first to spin. If more tork is needed i can add an axial or two or three until i get the required tork. Building the water wheel. The large wheels such as the 48 wheel would require a stronger pump which can maintain higher water pressures at up to 1 foot of head height height of water wheel.

If you re good with tools and have a diy streak you can build your own. How to build a small water wheel electric generator. A couple of these pictures do not appear in the full details write up above. These components can be made both at home but i recommend buying the dynamo because it s not easy to make a very efficient one.

You can buy plans but you can also build your wheel using freely available online plans. View from inflow side of wheel. Although these are approximate values we d recommend a pump ranging from 400 600 gph for the largest wheels to ensure smooth movement and the best aesthetic. Tape drive motor used as generator and cable spool ends that form the sides of the wheel.

So if you have a submerged turbine whose blades sweep 1 sqft of stream area a 13 5 inch diameter turbine in a 5 mph stream and it has an efficiency of 10 then it can generate about 50 watts which would be 1 2 kwh per day. Need your own water wheel well here is how we made a working wooden water wheel powered by falling water. The wheels and the dynamo.