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Let's start my introducing myself and our situation. My father in law has just retired and it has always been a tinkerer. What he lacks in knowledge or formal education he more than makes up for it in resourcefulness. He (and I) lives in NW Spain, a very rainy part of the country, and quite...

Thanks! I wrote him and he directed me to hidric.com, the only (afaik) distributor or powersprout peltol turbines (and a couple more brands). They also have permanent magnet generators I could use for the water wheel. The prices are somewhat reasonable. Not cheap, but reasonable. Now I'd have...

The water for wheel has no head. We have several (4 or 5) springs coming from uphill, including the one with 50m head, all converging into a water reservoir. At the end of that reservoir we could add a pipe to drop all the water into a wheel, but there will be no head other than just dropping...