xtremerunnerars
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Hey guys, first year EE student here.
We're doing a sustainability and green energy design project and my group came up with the idea to power LED street lamps with a nearby running stream.
Our goal is to utilize Lego Generator to power 360 degree RL8-W110-360 Specifications.
The lego motor specs are given, but those are for voltages applied to the motor rather than created by. We're going to build the turbine using strips of plastic wedged into a styrofoam cylinder that'll rest inside the stream.
We have complete control over how quickly the water flows and how much water passes through the turbine--we just aren't quite sure how to set the whole thing up. We're probably going to wire 4 or 5 of these LEDs into the circuit as well.
I'm not asking for you to flat out tell me how to wire everything up--just looking for what motor would work the best and a general sense of how to figure out what we'll need to do with the water and LEDs.
Thanks in advance!
We're doing a sustainability and green energy design project and my group came up with the idea to power LED street lamps with a nearby running stream.
Our goal is to utilize Lego Generator to power 360 degree RL8-W110-360 Specifications.
The lego motor specs are given, but those are for voltages applied to the motor rather than created by. We're going to build the turbine using strips of plastic wedged into a styrofoam cylinder that'll rest inside the stream.
We have complete control over how quickly the water flows and how much water passes through the turbine--we just aren't quite sure how to set the whole thing up. We're probably going to wire 4 or 5 of these LEDs into the circuit as well.
I'm not asking for you to flat out tell me how to wire everything up--just looking for what motor would work the best and a general sense of how to figure out what we'll need to do with the water and LEDs.
Thanks in advance!