Archerite
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I have a small solar system for about 2 years now and I love it! It's really small with only 250W peak for about 3-4 hours a day in summer and about 100+ for maybe 6 hours. On average between 0.7 kWh - 1 kWh of generated power. I know it's peanuts but it's enough to keep my phone, tablet, laptop, e reader, earbuds, etc...all charged up from solar. But I also run my TV from an inverter and with my 88Ah battery that can run for about 5 hours. it's hooked into homeassistant so that at 25% SoC the grid charger spins up to charge up to 40%. This usually only happens on either cloudy days or when I used too much. It's not an offgrid system...just hobby and learning experimentation.
With that out of the way as a tiny introduction that I am not totally new at this
...the reason for this post: I am going to try and build a gravity generator! I have no idea how it will look in the end...I just ordered some small cheap-ish 10W 24V "generators" from amazon. It's a 100% hobby project to learn from...too see if it's feasible to expand and invest in.
My theory is that if I put up a weight system like in old style clocks I should be able to at least get the generator spinning for a bit. i have a 3D printer that I can use to print parts for this...like housing and 1st gen gears. I'll probably end up with using metal gears at some point...but the idea is to have the weight drop really slow and with the gear box make the generator spin many times faster. But I also don't want it to be on the ground in 30 seconds obviously.
The plan is to use a Victron MPPT as the charge controller and put the generator on the PV input. I know it's not really meant for it...but I like them and have some spares. For exactly this kind of project! Then I will charge either a lifepo4 battery and/or a super capacitor bank from this generator. If possible I also want to put a few of these generators on the same gearbox so they generate more watts. At least...that's my theory.
The ultimate goal is to have this gravity generator charge my phone! ?
I understand there is no such thing as free energy...and that is not how i look at this. The weights need to be lifted up "somehow"...either by a motor or me using human muscle power to put the weights back up. I have no idea how much weight I am going to put on it..or how much is required. I am also thinking about using something else than a big weight on a wire or chain! Things like marbles on some sort of conveyor system...then collect them in the bottom and once in a while move them back up. In theory this would keep the generator running longer...as long as there are marbles "in storage" at the top.
As said (maybe to much) a lot of this is just theory that I would like to test for real in a small scale setup. First step is to just see if those generators I bought are even capable enough to generate anything at all! If they can then I'll look into wiring them together somehow to increase the output power. I ordered 4 of them so that is a potentially 40W of gravity power! My "standby usage" on my battery system is just around 30 watts, hahahaha. This could then supply power while I disconnect my main battery for some maintenance or something. I am really hoping it will work!
Another option instead of a single weight on a string or a marble conveyor is removable weights on a chain...with a hook or something. As in there is a chain that goes around from the top to the bottom. The exact height is not determined yet but I think at least 1.5-2 meters. Then on this chain i'll hook a weight on the top...which will make the chain move until that weight is on the bottom. At that point I would need to move it up again to restart the generator obviously. Since there is no such thing as free energy
I am curious if there are more people looking into this? Or maybe already have? When something useful comes from my experiments I'll post again.
With that out of the way as a tiny introduction that I am not totally new at this
...the reason for this post: I am going to try and build a gravity generator! I have no idea how it will look in the end...I just ordered some small cheap-ish 10W 24V "generators" from amazon. It's a 100% hobby project to learn from...too see if it's feasible to expand and invest in.My theory is that if I put up a weight system like in old style clocks I should be able to at least get the generator spinning for a bit. i have a 3D printer that I can use to print parts for this...like housing and 1st gen gears. I'll probably end up with using metal gears at some point...but the idea is to have the weight drop really slow and with the gear box make the generator spin many times faster. But I also don't want it to be on the ground in 30 seconds obviously.
The plan is to use a Victron MPPT as the charge controller and put the generator on the PV input. I know it's not really meant for it...but I like them and have some spares. For exactly this kind of project! Then I will charge either a lifepo4 battery and/or a super capacitor bank from this generator. If possible I also want to put a few of these generators on the same gearbox so they generate more watts. At least...that's my theory.
The ultimate goal is to have this gravity generator charge my phone! ?
I understand there is no such thing as free energy...and that is not how i look at this. The weights need to be lifted up "somehow"...either by a motor or me using human muscle power to put the weights back up. I have no idea how much weight I am going to put on it..or how much is required. I am also thinking about using something else than a big weight on a wire or chain! Things like marbles on some sort of conveyor system...then collect them in the bottom and once in a while move them back up. In theory this would keep the generator running longer...as long as there are marbles "in storage" at the top.
As said (maybe to much) a lot of this is just theory that I would like to test for real in a small scale setup. First step is to just see if those generators I bought are even capable enough to generate anything at all! If they can then I'll look into wiring them together somehow to increase the output power. I ordered 4 of them so that is a potentially 40W of gravity power! My "standby usage" on my battery system is just around 30 watts, hahahaha. This could then supply power while I disconnect my main battery for some maintenance or something. I am really hoping it will work!
Another option instead of a single weight on a string or a marble conveyor is removable weights on a chain...with a hook or something. As in there is a chain that goes around from the top to the bottom. The exact height is not determined yet but I think at least 1.5-2 meters. Then on this chain i'll hook a weight on the top...which will make the chain move until that weight is on the bottom. At that point I would need to move it up again to restart the generator obviously. Since there is no such thing as free energy
I am curious if there are more people looking into this? Or maybe already have? When something useful comes from my experiments I'll post again.
