<div dir="ltr">I don't really want to mess with changing the hydro, I'm more interested in alleviating the manual transfer between power systems. I'm planning on putting a power quality recorder/oscilloscope so that I understand what type of power we are working with. Its semi-large (from my perspective) because I believe that they transmit at 11.4 kV and step it back down. That tells me that the penstock is long (and expensive). In some ways my post is premature, but the big question is can you have a largish hydro feed a load direct without storage (maybe there is a dynamic load bank or something like that? I like the idea of feeding batteries direct and letting the inverters make good quality power but I'm ignorant about hydro on this scale.<div><br></div><div>I appreciate the ideas</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Jul 10, 2019 at 9:11 PM Jerry Shafer <<a href="mailto:jerrysgarage01@gmail.com">jerrysgarage01@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">This is from the web and its metric so dont get messed up. You need big GPM and big head (pressure) yes it is multiplied but 1 × anything is still 1, 2 x is not much better.<div dir="auto">Do you have any values yet, elevation change, </div><div dir="auto">Jerry</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Jul 10, 2019, 8:00 PM <<a href="mailto:toddcory@finestplanet.com" target="_blank">toddcory@finestplanet.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><font face="georgia" size="3"><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-family:georgia;font-size:12pt">isn't there a formula like head in feet X gpm divided by 10 = approximate wattage?<br><br>todd</p>
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<p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-family:georgia;font-size:12pt"><br><br>On Wednesday, July 10, 2019 7:10pm, "Jerry Shafer" <<a href="mailto:jerrysgarage01@gmail.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">jerrysgarage01@gmail.com</a>> said:<br><br></p>
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<div>You need head (pressure) and GPM, clean degree free, no silt, a catch basin to stall the water, big pipe long run, try to keep the rollercoasters out, (rises), and no 90's, that's just to start. Low head waterwheels can produce lots of power to but you need a river of water.
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