Mini linear turbine test Heathcote river Christchurch New Zealand. April 7, 2014 Using treadmill motor/generator to produce 5 volts and power car tail light.

Mini Linear turbine test Heathcote river Christchurch New Zealand April 7, 2014. Driving treadmill generator and car tail light through bike wheel step up chain drive.

Mini linear turbine suspended from rail in river bed, and floating in the river. Upper chain supported using bicycle derailers part way along chain to prevent chain coming off. Water pump made from pvc pipe with two brass check valves.

Tests of mini linear turbine Heathcote river Christchurch New Zealand 24 January 2014

                                                 Tidal current linear turbine tests at Orewa River January 2013 See video of linear turbine tests at Orewa river:  click here                   […]

Thailand Irrigation Dept. workshop members Mae Hong Son 1984

Videos of original turbine testing in Japan 1984 and Thailand in 1986. Please contact jservice@ihug.co.nz if you are interested in this turbine. Full manufacturing drawings available at my blog  http://kamomei.blogspot.com/p/welcome-to-johns-linear-turbine.html.   Open channel flow (river flow) Linear turbine tests Fukui Japan 1984 (Kuzuryu river and irrigation canal). Pumping water and demonstrating able to rotate in […]