Jon Los

Shawn Ces wrote:

Jon Los wrote:

As someone who als o has a creek flowing through my property, I just went ahead and did it. It's easier to ask for forgiveness than for permission!
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John , I would love to hear more about your hydro system

Hi Shawn. What can I tell you, I just hacked away with a bunch of junk until it spit out a few watts. I do have the advantage of living way out in the boonies so there's no neighbours to bother me. If you want to know more I have a website where I'm slowly documenting the journey of water to wire, jonlos dot com

dusty smith wrote:I'll look into the permit thing. I know nothing about the legal stuff. But as far as the flooding. I live in the 100 year flood zone. I already pay floor insurance so I realize there is the potential for catastrophic destruction of basically everything I own. In my life there have been 2 major floods in my area. On the typical seasons cycle,  water has never broke the shore of the creek bed. I have thought of making this water wheel adjust with rising water using a float and some electric actuators. Control wiring is my favorite thing that I do as a Electrician. But any way thanks for your input.

As someone who also has a creek flowing through my property, I just went ahead and did it. It's easier to ask for forgiveness than for permission!
From your original post, you indicated that it's a slow moving creek. There's a lot of variables to take into account here! Do you have any significant drop in elevation? How many gallons/liters per minute? Can you get access to the crick upstream? What are the conditions in the winter? AC or DC system? And a lot of other things to consider too!
I hope you can make it happen!