Raley Posted December 15, 2010 Author Share Posted December 15, 2010 I knew adbout german bt had no idea about alaska. Once i actually have the house well see what kinda placement i have in the yard. What do you have for battery storage? And what converter? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xeryon Posted December 15, 2010 Share Posted December 15, 2010 feronious (sp?) i'll get the model and such when i get home in an hour. right now we do not use a battery array and are just grid tied. that's for the next house... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raley Posted December 15, 2010 Author Share Posted December 15, 2010 Ok, my idea was just to tie into the grid.... that way if i produce more then my batteryies hold, i get money back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmgogo Posted December 15, 2010 Share Posted December 15, 2010 Raley: Those big ol bastards run on a lazy suzan pretty much. The generator and all of the equipment is up in the housing on top of the stand, so basicly there are 4 bands of metal on the bearing surface it rotates on. Kinda like non SRS steering wheels and their horns. Its just the brushes we used were INSANE Each one weighed about 80lbs and was PURE copper. I mean hell the bearings were about the size of softballs. As far as running solar here its not going to happen, well not anytime soon. We used up all of our energy trust credits and our federal energy tax credits this year by insulating the crawl space, new NG furnace (which has PVC exhaust pipes haha, the thing is so damn efficent the exhaust is only 5% above ambient indoor temp), a new hybrid water heater (instant w/ a 5gal tank and recirc system), new fridge, new washer and dryer. Eventually however we will probably do it since we have a north facing house so our roof runs east-west, so we will put the panels on the south face of the house (and the garage as well) figure we could probably go net0 with the ammount of surface we have since its a single story ranch 3bed 2 bath, its pretty long and narrow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xeryon Posted December 16, 2010 Share Posted December 16, 2010 dammit, three times i wrote this post and keep deleting the crap by accident. Tax credits for efficiency improvements are not the same as tax credits for renewable power systems. I will be qualifying for the $1500 credit as well as 30% back on my solar array. I took these pics with my blackberry in the dark. Sorry for the poor quality. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raley Posted December 16, 2010 Author Share Posted December 16, 2010 This kinda topic gets me thinking but once i get this house ill look at it more, then ill be broke and need to get money before anything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xeryon Posted December 16, 2010 Share Posted December 16, 2010 I've done an amazing amount of work to this place for not a huge amount of money - windows, doors, roof, geothermal furnace, pv array. Year 1 it cost us over $4000 only for heat @65. Now it will cost me $500 to keep it @72. Now I just have to figure out how to generate a little more power. I have a stream that runs through the edge of my property. I was thinking a small impeller might be something fun to play with. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raley Posted December 16, 2010 Author Share Posted December 16, 2010 In michigan, its illegal to have water turbines... gay.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xeryon Posted December 16, 2010 Share Posted December 16, 2010 i'll have to check on that and to check on what constitutes a turbine. I was literally meaning an impeller sitting at waters surface connected via direct drive shaft to an alternator only for the purpose of running an electric water pump. if it would generate that much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raley Posted December 16, 2010 Author Share Posted December 16, 2010 sorry, i was on my phone... but yeah the law is something like you cant block water flow... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmgogo Posted December 16, 2010 Share Posted December 16, 2010 xeryon you probabaly couldnt get the alt to spin fast enough to produce a charge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xeryon Posted December 16, 2010 Share Posted December 16, 2010 Obviously, it would require some gearing to get the rotating speed high enough. Water pouring out of a culvert isn't exactly speedy. Just speculation. At the very least it will not have cost me much/anything to set that up. I have a few spare alternators and might be able to rig a set of bicycle sprockets to test the idea. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmgogo Posted December 16, 2010 Share Posted December 16, 2010 dont forget your going to also need to precharge the rectifier, usualy 9v battery is enough to start it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xeryon Posted December 17, 2010 Share Posted December 17, 2010 See this is where I should have not dropped out of school. I have lots of excellent ideas and no clue what the hell to do to implement them. Define "rectifier". In the context of your statement I am assuming you mean for me to precharge a portion of the alternator in order for it to function initially? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DelSolSweetie Posted December 17, 2010 Share Posted December 17, 2010 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raley Posted December 17, 2010 Author Share Posted December 17, 2010 Where did you come up with your specs on the chassis. I look at it and see some spots of nice triangulation thwn other areas it looks weak, maybe just the angle but still... did you build it around suspensiin, mtor and the seat or what? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
airjordan223 Posted December 17, 2010 Share Posted December 17, 2010 why are some of those pipes making impossible connections Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raley Posted December 17, 2010 Author Share Posted December 17, 2010 I only see two spots of bad connections... lower rear. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xeryon Posted December 17, 2010 Share Posted December 17, 2010 why are some of those pipes making impossible connections You aren't thinking three dimensionally! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DelSolSweetie Posted December 17, 2010 Share Posted December 17, 2010 http://www.sae.org/s...nts/mbrules.pdf those are the rules.. bunch of specs on cage Where are the weak connections on the rear bottom? and what are the impossible connections? It looked crappier in the front until recently.. guys on the team don't like to listen to me.. me and the advisor had to explain triangulation to them lol they tend to fight me on obvious stuff.. like not wanting a 6ft+ wheelbase or a super wide track width (they think if the rules say MAX length and MAX width that they should do that.. I had to explain just cause it fits rules doesnt make it competitive also tried to fight me on choosing 4130.. they finally shut the f up when they realized it was stronger and we were looking at a 60 lb chassis instead of 100 lbs. none of them have any experience with following rules to pass tech inspection.. and they have issues understanding how important things like suspension geometry is If something looks really strange it was probably one of their ideas.. if they do something and it doesnt actually hurt anything then i leave them alone about it lol i think it looks better then some chassis i've been seeing for competition next year Thing i hate most about the chassis is that bottom of the rear roll hoop. It has to have 1 or two triangular braces that you can see.. the horizontal bars are for the seatbelt and motor.. i hate how the motor bar interferes with the brace bar side screen shot: probably going to be an hour or two debate on a-arm design and mounting tomorrow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raley Posted December 17, 2010 Author Share Posted December 17, 2010 Look at chassis from berrien buggy and at the atom frame to get a jist of triangulation... i didnt read the tech specs so i might be off. When i get home ill fire up paint and make hell of it... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raley Posted December 17, 2010 Author Share Posted December 17, 2010 i didn't really cross referance anything from the isometric view... if i had the swf file i could do better Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xeryon Posted December 17, 2010 Share Posted December 17, 2010 the problem with doing that to the front is that the gangly thing will stick way out there with no support at all. get in a wreck and good bye foot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raley Posted December 17, 2010 Author Share Posted December 17, 2010 Its got a 10 horse motor and goes like 35 top... you cant bend a 5 foot tube arould a tree at that speed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
airjordan223 Posted December 17, 2010 Share Posted December 17, 2010 my lawnmower has 11 hp vroom vroom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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