Off grid solar homestead (Looking for a good place for hydro generator)

Looking for a good place to put a hydro generator. I am considering a overshot water wheel because I have most of the parts. I think I was kind of mesmerized by the visual and sound effect when I was recording this video lol. I am torn between the water wheel and a micro hydro. If I build a water wheel. It is 300' to the battery bank. I have a PMA that I could use configured as wild AC and mount the 3 phase rectifier in in the battery house next to the Charge controller.
If I go with micro hydro system I could have the Pelton wheel next to the battery house. One thing for sure is I will either spend money on water pipe or wire. What are your thoughts? Thanks for watching!

[HomesteadEngineering]

I would love to do a water wheel at my parents house where I grew up. We had a damm with a 9' drop, a stream like yours and a pond. Looking for water wheels on YouTube about a year ago is how I came across the whole "prepper" community and got interested in gardening, canning, and all the other cool stuff. Now, it's like a collection of hobbies with a purpose. I hope you will do a whole series on your progress. I have not come across a good example of how to calculate how much energy you can expect to generate based on flow rate, drop, wheel diameter and width. I'll be checking in for updates!

[turkeytoes]

I heard you mention wood fired water heater in this video.For my wood fired water heater I went to Lowes and got 60 feet coil of flex copper 3/4 inch. I had two 55 gallon drums and so I cut the end off one with a barrel opener tool in much the same way a can opener works for a can of beans. But you can use a hatchet and hammer or a chisel and hammer. I put the coil up in the barrel and held it in place at the top of the barrel with three steel brackets  I bent and bolted in place. I cut a 6 inch diameter hole in the top for the stovepipe. The ends of the copper coil exited the barrel about three inches each. That's so there is no joints in the barrel, just coiled copper 60 feet in length. On the ends of those I soldered connections to the pipes that go to the hot water tank. These are wrench tightened connectors. Also have a pressure relief valve near where the water exits the stove and one again at the top of the tank on the hot water line. Cold water enters the tank, goes into the stove from near the bottom of the tank, rises in the coil and exits the stove and enters the tank toward the top of the tank. Then a hot water line exits the tank on top of the tank and goes to the hot water faucets in the home. I cut a square door in the side of the barrel and cut another just a little larger from the other barrel to make a door and bolted hinges to it and the barrel. And made a latch out of steel. Everything drilled and bolted, no welding. I set it on concrete blocks and poured about 3 inches of cement on the bottom of the barrel through the door. gives it a little weight and stability plus is a flat surface to scrape up ashes. Throw a few chunks in and in about 15 minutes there is enough hot water to take a bath. build it in the morning and have hot water all day. No need for pumps or electric....the hot water circulates itself by the fact that hot water rises and of course this is all hooked up to the gravity feed springwater system so there's pressure just from the fact that the spring and reservoir are above the house.

[annpoucher]

I remember this from last year. I wanted you to do the water wheel then. I love it.

[MrJamesPottorff]

Myself, I would not build a water wheel, I would build a small penstock, and run about 100 ft (or more) of pipe off of that (downhill) and send it through a pelton turbine, then divert the water right back into the creek. All this could be set into a small insulated shed so freezing would not be a issue

[oldtimeengineer]

Almost put me to sleep with the running water sound. Have fun doing it sounds like fun

[timby]

Besides, they look nice. To have your own water wheel. I never heard anyone ever say they had too much power. LOL

God Bless

[ChrisDIYerOklahoma]

It is going to be GREAT seeing this in action! 15 amps @ 24v is a lot of power...shoot, even 5 amps would be worth it. Excellent! How is your son doing?