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but that's not stopping you generating leccy for your own use is it ?? - just selling any surplus yes Brett.. But when one has expended a VAST amount of money (equivilant to buying a house) doing a hydro scheme - to be told that you might not qualify any longer as you have used second hand equipment...

In case anyone is unaware - the new FiTs schem from the UK government, denies anyone from using 'recycled or reused or refurbished equipment' And it all needs to be 'MCS accredited' - which is a load of twaddle. Go look - you might be frightened. Especially, like me - you own an old mill, and want t...

8 year old (ie old...) modified sine (ie not the best) used.... I wouldnt want to sped much more than 100 quid / euros. And thats generous - new ones are 200 quid these days I'm afraid. random fleabay advert:- http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/DURITE-Modified-Wave-Inverter-12v-to-230v-1000w-1Kw_W0QQitemZ2303837...

weird - a tractor without the means to use 99% of its use....

keep diggin' on fleabay and similar local ads?

So you bought an engine?

Theres some 16 inch wheels on fleabay at the moment.

if the tube is slightly conical, then the ejection would be easier. I got my log splitter yesterday - so have yet not had a chance to rip it aprt and much about with it. It already needs modifying, as it lacks 'spreader wings' re bog roll tubes. Um - yeah - for a 1 bed flat, that might be OK - we ha...

I have a small 5kw GSHP - running from the water under my house. It works - but my god is it noisy! Its akin to a honda suitcase generator I would say - a loud HMMMMMM - like a fridge, but louder. Our system heats nicely a 42' x 22' room, with 21' apex (barn conversion type) for 1.5kw of leccy. The ...

what about a briquette maker instead? fill a strong tube with rubbish, big fat hydraulic ram and a bit of water, squash it, eject it. 1 moving part (ram, from a tipper lorry?). Its what Im looking at...

ah - but at what head? 500 l / s is nice - but thats just a slow flow along a river, or one hell of a flow over angel falls....

power (watts) = flow (litres per second) x gravity (9.81) x head (metres)


so, if you have 10 litres per second, and ten metres head, you have 1000 watts. Thats a very low flow, and a good head.

So what have you got?

try www.nav***on.org.uk

I have one of their systems - cost 2K inc getting a plumber in to do the very very long run (hundreds on copper pipe spent) - I have a 60 tube setup - way bigger than normally necessary.