Building A Water Wheel

Inspired by another fellow youtuber this water whee.

Building a water wheel. Tape drive motor used as generator and cable spool ends that form the sides of the wheel. I can say that my water wheel plans will. Last month a guy bought my water wheel plans and a competors plans. Place the wheel so it rests securely and won t fall off or into the bucket when you pour water over it by having about 1 inch 2 5 cm of the skewer hanging over the mouth of the bucket on each side.

Usually for a water wheel electric generator you need at least 3 feet of fall and at least 20 gallons per minute of flow. You can buy plans but you can also build your wheel using freely available online plans. After comparing the plans he sent me the competor s plans as a joke because they were only 3 pages of rough sketches for a plywood wheel that would probably fall apart in a year nothing like the water wheels he showed on his website. Building the water wheel if you re good with tools and have a diy streak you can build your own.

Shaft bearings and primary gear. It is not as detailed as most of. I am delighted at finding a functioning water wheel plans. It is exactly the same principle as the old dynamo lights we used to have on bicycles back in the day where the electricity was generated by the revolving wheel.

The wheel in operation. Some pictures of the water wheel. You can measure flow by building a weir in the creek and measuring how fast it will fill up a 5 gallon bucket. The wheel buckets cut from pvc pipe.

A couple of these pictures do not appear in the full details write up above. With a water wheel generator electricity is generated when the flowing water runs through the water wheel and makes it spin. You can buy the hardware you need at any hardware store and the kinetic dynamo can be purchased online. As i remember it used to make stopping at lights interesting as no revolving wheel equalled zero.

The more fall and flow you have the more potential power you can generate. Need your own water wheel well here is how we made a working wooden water wheel powered by falling water. View from inflow side of wheel. Step by step instructions on how to make your own decorative yet functional 4 ft diameter water wheel out of old scrap redwood deck lumber using common carpe.