Hi Dave, If you can advise the following, we can first see what potential your site has, then I can advise you.
Please supply: Vertical drop (m) Pipe length to obtain vertical drop (m) Water flow (L/s) Cable distance from site to house (m) Preferred voltage Yes it can be cost effective to connect the hydro turbine directly to a water element, it depends upon your site data. It is not a big step from this to do to a complete system than generates all your power and send the surplus to hot water. Hydro only requires a small battery bank and inverter prices are steadily falling. Regards Michael Lawley Renewable Energy Engineer EcoInnovation 671 Kent Road R.D.1 New Plymouth New Zealand Phone: (NZ) 06 752 2765 Web site: www.ecoinn.co.nz email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: isoga2001 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, September 12, 2004 6:13 AM Subject: [microhydro] Using Hydro to heat water Hi I want to set up a very simple and low cost system generating about 1-2KW. My plan is to use it to directly heat water to provide hot tap water and home heating. This way I can avoid batteries, charge controllers, inverter, etc. Has anyone seen a similar type of installation before? Are there any gotchas? thx dave Does your company feature in the microhydro business directory at http://microhydropower.net/directory ? If not, please register free of charge and be exposed to the microhydro community world wide! NOTE: The advertisements in this email are added by Yahoogroups who provides us with free email group services. The microhydro-group does not endorse products or support the advertisements in any way. More information on micro hydropower at http://microhydropower.net To unsubscribe: send empty message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ADVERTISEMENT ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links a.. To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/microhydro/ b.. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] c.. Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> $9.95 domain names from Yahoo!. Register anything. http://us.click.yahoo.com/J8kdrA/y20IAA/yQLSAA/FGYolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Does your company feature in the microhydro business directory at http://microhydropower.net/directory ? If not, please register free of charge and be exposed to the microhydro community world wide! NOTE: The advertisements in this email are added by Yahoogroups who provides us with free email group services. The microhydro-group does not endorse products or support the advertisements in any way. More information on micro hydropower at http://microhydropower.net To unsubscribe: send empty message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/microhydro/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
