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It is highly unlikely that I will go for this project

For sure I do not care about the conservation efforts and I do not care about recuperation electricity back to grid in order to earn credit. I do not think the wind power is useful for me. Wind in my case would require humongous size of battery; I would estimate at least 1000A/H, which would take a half of a room. I do have space in my house but I do not have stupidity to go there.

The hydraulic wheel on another side is very different creature. It has more or less stable power generating capacity and it might employ small battery, I would say 100A/H. The 100A/H at 72V is also a large array of batteries, with cost of many thousand dollars…

Here is how I think about the notions. Regardless what would charge the battery I would still use the PurePower inverter as it is proven to sound very good. The PurePower use 72V and the new 3kW unit that I hope to get soon use 95V – this will be a LOT of batteries if I go there. I am not sure that the PurePower own charger will be able to charge them if needed. The PurePower own charge is very flimsy. So, for the project I would require to get one more PurePower, juts for sake of inverter and to build external battery charger or to rework the PurePower’s stock charger to accommodate much larger battery. I am not convinced that I will be able to generate from my hydraulic station the power I need.

I look at the different ideas and was trying to assess the power I might get from my flow. Here is the site that I find useful.

http://www.waterwheelplace.com/main.html

The waterwheel of 3-4 feet set at slow speed to be silent, plus a transmission and high efficiency alternator would most likely give to me 300-500 watts that will not be sufficient. I need stable 1kW of continue power. I also have no idea how the alternator that will be charging the buttery will sound. So, since I have no frustration with default PurePower running from grid I do not see myself to dive into the hydraulic project. If there was some kind of hydraulic generator kit that included all that was available then I do not mind to install it and to run let say my pool pump or my backyard lights from it. Still, it is only money saving and I do not particularly care about this part. Well, I care about it but it does not excite me. Still, the idea is elegant and if I know that I can get from it my 1kW of continues power then I might consider it more practically.

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