Automotive Alternators

[janmarsh]

Bob,
      The very thing you are referring to was devised by a Professor Salter here in UK some years ago.

"Salters Duck" used wave power & had potential.   It turned out his test results were negatively falsified by a pro nuclear interest prior to being considered.

Those massive winter waves hitting Hawaii hold enormous energy.

[Bob]

Yah I know they work and work fairly good I made one years ago and put it in a small creek at the Ranch
and it put out something like 5 to 8 vac which I rectified and fed to a meter... that was about it
the small waves in the creek left me thinking that the ocean was the best place for it...
I then moved to a Under slung powered water wheel made from a bicycle wheel and a bicycle 6v generator... took a week to build up enough fall to power it and the first rain took out all my hard work so I gave that up , but it worked real well. it needed more cups on the rim though ! HAHAHA!
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sense then I devised a Bicycle rim Generator useing 2 12vdc bicycle generators and 2" pvc pipe sections and caps attached to the rim.... on a 27" bike front wheel.
the pipe cups are sercisely aimed into a 3" piece of ABS pipe where the top half is cut off where the cups come in contact with the water.... there would be more than plunty of power if the 3" pipe can be cept full of water and the speed would be fairly fast chargeing a bunch of batteries easily...
but I havn't made it, just one of those, maybe one of these days things ! HAHAHHA
 ...

the water wheel I made here is a 6" diam 2" wide Underslung deal that is on a 1.24" solid steel axel
dangleing over the year round creek... its not fast but I calculated its HP at 24 to 26HP on a good day
but I've never used it for anything ...unfortionately
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the PE&E company came out and told me I can't do that, steeling electricity from their creek and I laughed at him and said what makes you think its YOUR creek ? but he was addimant he had the USE RIGHTS of the water... and I assured him he didn't ... and he said well I'll go back and check and if we do We'll see you in court ... I said Fine !
 never hurd a thing from them after that...and my neighbor said "yah PG&E has been useing scare tactics on every one here trying to use the water..."
not that it hurts them in the slightest but because they think they can !
...tatics like that make me want to put the water well to use and give the electricity free to my neighbors ! HAHAHAHA turning a 25KW generator would be easy for it if I geared it up with a car transmition... but my neighbors are such jerks I wouldn't give them the time of day!
and I don't want to mess with it now ...the water is too cold ! HAHAHAHAHA
....
Bob.....

[janmarsh]

The active involvement of the Powers-That-Be to deter the likes of yourself with your bicycle wheel & Prof. Salter with his Duck only shows that you both have them worried.   I love it.    HaHa

[Manta]

Bob,
Why don't you use the wheel to charge a battery bank then use a dc to 240 ac inverter for your lights etc.
don't throw away free energy.

Manta

[Bob]

Thats what I bought the 2500watt inverter for actually.... but I have too many things going and not enough parts to get the thing to work good and all that.... you know the story....
HAHAHAHA
Bob.........