Rain Gutter POWER #2 - 3D Printed Alternator, BEST Explanation of a Rectifier EVER!!!
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- čas přidán 30. 12. 2019
- This video is quickly becoming known as "the best explanation of a rectifier ever". Many are saying it should be the first example shown to every high school student when teaching rectifiers (I tend to agree).
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Summary:
In the previous video I connected an off-the-shelf DC generator to a pelton wheel and drove it with runoff from a large section of my roof. Though I calculated 2 watts of available power and planned on only collecting 50% of it, the actual output was only .19 watts. In this video I design and build a permanent magnet alternator then rectify the AC into DC power to see if I can enhance the efficiency. Spoiler alert: it works really well! - Věda a technologie
This guys kids better appreciate their dad. Best teacher I’ve ever known of. Blown away by his ability to explain complex things.
they are not complex things. maybe you just had bad teachers.
Prydzen Not complex? Says the guy watching internet videos about the subject.
Prydzen I’ve only had 3 good teachers throughout my entire education
@@prydzen Everybody finds different things to be complex. For example I find bridge rectifiers to be complex while you find making friends to be complex. Maybe you just had bad teachers.
I was just about to comment on this... Amazing teacher!
Looks like you built a FULL BRIDGE RECIFIER!
*electroboom intensifies*
Would you believe I didn't know about electroboom's FULL BRIDGE RECTIFIER vids until AFTER I made that video??? Otherwise I may have had to shout that into the camera!!!
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Please make some full bridge rectifier shout in the next Video! The rest of my life i cant read "full bridge rectifier" without thinking to electroboom
:D
Perhaps you could make an EVEN FULLER BRIDGE RECTIFIER!!?!
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I learned more about hydroelectric power in 14 minutes than I did in an entire school year
Bingo!
school life*
shitty education system?
Did any of your classes cover hydroelectric power though?
@@quitschi9954 man im doing an electrotechnical school i had a professor explain to me the diode bridge and didnt understand it. i went on youtobe while i was bored and completeley undestand it from a guy in his backyard
It's fun learning when you actually have a quality teacher.
best explanation of a bridge rectifier I've seen. Thanks and keep up the good work!
Thanks Alan! I didn't set out to explain a rectifier like that but once I saw the opportunity I couldn't pass it up!
I came here to say the same thing!
Same boat here. Electroboom would be proud.
I agree he did a lovely job using LED's in place of boring, expensive, and opaque NORMAL diodes. The best way to play around with electronic components without spending a penny is to do it in-silico. That is, within a simulation. Here's a simulation I threw together of exactly the same circuit. tinyurl.com/wsbaops
That's not just an animation btw, It's a full featured electronic circuit simulator able to run almost any valid circuit. Amazingly, it can take arbitrary inputs and inject them into a circuit (ie .wav files) and output signals you can analyze with any sound editor.
Agreed! Brilliant visual representation using LED's!
Quint - You break this all down in a fun way that even a dummy like me can understand it. Great video. Thx
Lol! Thanks Jay, great meeting you last night and all those incredible students!
hey even a guy who's been playing with electronics for the last 10 years is learning something.
that full bridge rectifier demo was excellent. i never thought about how the electricity was flowing through it.
I am a graduating senior that has taken 2 years of electrical classes, and everything I’ve studied finally fell into place after watching this video. Very informative, thanks!
Dude, you just made my day...
When Mr. Quint said "bridge rectifier" all i heard was "FULL BRIDGE RECTIFIER"
im gld you did not electricute yourself haha
My thoughts exactly! And now i know how it works!
@msadaghd :-D LOL You are so right!
I understood that reference :D
Just learned about Electroboom....cool... czcams.com/video/sI5Ftm1-jik/video.html
Me too lol
Mans gonna be powering his whole house when he’s done with this series
That would take alot if rain
@@scout4locations He can move to England and become a millionare selling power
I like the blowing up the balloon analogy, first time I’ve heard it.
Soldered in my first diode near 40 years ago, before my 10th birthday even. Been playing with electronics and electrical stuff ever since, from building tiny little circuits all the way up to working with substation switch gear, and some nifty 3-phase factory systems. Part of my income these days is derived from designing circuits for small and medium-scale automation projects.
I've not once heard an explanation for a rectifier as simple or effective as yours. The same goes for your explanations around how the generation works. I've never seen someone tackle it in such an effective and understandable manner. The visuals using actual components (rather than simulations or animations) makes it much clearer for many.
Gonna have to add a larger workshop and 3-d printer to the house :)
Amazing. I got a CS/EE degree 16 years ago and this is still educational for me. You are a gift to humanity.
6:51 Best explanation of the rectifier I've ever seen
Now that's what you call a "quality" content. Keep up the good work man!
The moment this guy literally designed a generator, he earned 'The DIY King' title in my eves
I was initially more interested in the actual physical build of this but as someone familiar with the subjects you put years worth of understanding in to 14 minutes. This made more sense and covered more subjects than some courses. You have an amazing talent for teaching here.
Thanks! You're gonna love what i'm working on now when it comes out! 👍
Just took 6 weeks of bread boards and scratching my head with confusion just to have this explained so visually well, the way you used the LEDs on the bridge, then added the capacitor to show it smooths the power! Appreciate it !! Great work!
Believe it or not that's about where I was prior to making the video. When I saw the opportunity for the visual, I knew it had to be done! Thanks for sharing your experience, I really appreciate it. 👍
when charging battery's you don't need the capacitor batry's are acting like a capacitor.
In all my school days i thought that I would never understand Electrical, but you are teaching me more than my teachers! And I'm not even american! Thank you kindly, sir!
i'm not an electronics/mechanic/electrical/engineer i'm just watching videos in youtube... videos from great/cool/knowledgeable man... pandemic brings me here...
Technically it's called a full wave bridge rectifier. For beginners in electronics, this is the best explanation of how a bridge rectifier works. Bravo.
my plan : Sleep...
my brain : this video is interesting...
LOL! 👍
Its 4AM and I feel the same😂
When you applied the load to the alternator with the LED lights, you could hear and see the change in load from the water... This is bloody brilliant mate. You have taught me so much from two videos, I haven't seen the third yet!!
The way this guy explains how this works in extreme layman's detail is amazing. It took me years to learn what he explaines in just a few minutes. Thumbs up my friend.
This is simply amazing to me, especially the visualization of a full bridge rectifier. Excellent video!
Hi, you came and talked to my school today for career day😂
Awesome! Thanks so much for looking up my channel!!! 👍
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I've struggled to under stand full bridge rectifiers. That was by far the easiest and best "lesson" on one.
Your ability to break these concepts down into digestible chunks is great, a fantastic teacher
Wow, that has to be some of the most intuitive explanations I've ever seen in a video regarding electricity. Love it!
I just did the opposite 😂, I took a car alternator and turned into a "BLDC motor" and used it to electrify my go-kart. Subscribed!
I've never heard, let alone seen, rectifiers explained like that, and it makes SO much more sense meow! Thank you! You've earned my subscription! Well done! I'm on to Part #3, and I look forward to future videos!
Lmao "Meow", I'm sorry but I laughed when I seen that. But indeed it did make it pretty simple to understand.
Meow ahaha
I'm a mechanic and thought I was good with electrical - but never fully understood how the rectifiers on lawn mowers and small outboard boat engines worked...
Electricity always follows the shortest path to ground, so your full bridge rectifier with LED instead of regular diodes REALLY helped me to fully understand the process!
Awesome video and nice work!
i've just found you today, and you've taught me more in the last few hours than i've learned in awhile, you break things down so easily and simply, i understand all these vague concepts so much better because of you. thank you for your service
When i saw the neodymium magnets i literally shouted “nice!”. I always wanted to make an electric motor out of it. This is a great channel for i am a curious diy freak. Subbed!
You adding water resistance by having your "nozzle" at the bottom. Change to nozzle on the top side of your Pelton wheel so that the weight of the water will be going with gravity (down).
Exactly what I was going to say. Just had to see if any one else beat me to it.
the youtuber Kris harbour has a pelton set up horizontal but it has 4 jets
Wouldn't it be even better to have the jet point downwards, and hit the pelton wheel like that?
@@trippasnippa6152 Thanks, i also follow Kris.
But it slightly has more potential energy being at the bottom (farthest from the top). Also, the pelton wheel actually works better in this configuration. If the nozzle were at the top, the blades don‘t really "catches" momentum of water going down. It is designed to deflect the main direction, and they do so by sending the water back radially away from the center of the wheel. Guess where the water tends to go with this setup? Downwards, the same direction of the deflection. The core characteristic of this particular design is that it almost eliminate water "reflection" going the same direction of the source making the source‘s momentum undisturbed. If the jet is on top, the wheel will work to deflect it upwards see? So overall, this setup is better.
This was awesome. These fun little experiments show so much. I asked my kids how many of these would we need to run the space heater. Blew their minds.
it's crazy how this guy made electricity so easy to understand. it's a true test of knowledge if someone can teach someone from 0, and this guy blew me away with how easy this was to follow.
7:42 - All I hear is Electroboom's FULL BRIDGE RECTIFIER!!
lol!
7:24 REKTIFIAH!! 😀😀😀
What's the fideo where he was sitting next to a whiteboard with a transformer and full bridge rectifier on it and said "And that gets fed into a FULL BRIDGE RECTIFIAH"
Can't wait to see you charge any battery from it. You got the gift in explaining things 👍🏻 Great work!!
Dude, that was the best explanation of a full bridge rectifier I have ever seen! Well done!
Came here for inspiration, stayed for the best explanations of fundamental electrical principles... inflating balloons and the LED maze? pure brilliance!!!
I have never seen anyone explain this subject so well!
Great video! We greatly enjoyed watching and are looking forward to Part 3!
I want you to know how much I enjoyed this content: I let every ad play in full without skipping.
What a great video. Your passion and excitement was not lost here.
I thank you immensely for doing these videos, all the theory I learned in physics in combination with circuits all wrapped up nicely in one video as the much need demonstration of what engineering is and why I am falling in love with it.
Also, what everyone else is saying, u sir have a gift with explaining. Thankyou.
This is the best thing youtube as showed me lately, congrats, its super fun to see your experience.
I already knew about AC generators, however this is the best video explaining it that I’ve ever seen the balloon example for alternating-current is very clever
As someone with a degree in Electronics and Electrical Engineering, this video was amazing at explaining how these things work. If I could like this video twice, I would. Well done!
Thank you! You're a great teacher. First time I've understood alternators and rectifiers.
Thanks! And me too btw. I could eventually get a rectifier working in the past with trial and error but now I'll never have to look it up again!
I'm from Africa access to things like 3d printers, delivery services, tools and materials for projects are very hard to come by ,seeing how you use them and how these tools improve your projects and efficiency is admirable,please keep on making videos such that when the time comes when I have access to such things I will know what to do with the understanding I get from this channel !!!🙏🙏
I've watched a couple of your videos and they are GREAT. Everything is explained super visually, I really love it. Thank you and please keep up doing such a great job!
I've taken classes on electronics long ago, and have always been interested in the topic, but you make it easy to understand in very simple terms without it seeming "dumbed down". I'd call this "technically simplified" lol
A smart, optimistic, and funny guy. The trifecta of what makes an amazing teacher.
Keep on teaching
cheers 🍻
Really impressed by the degree of improvement you got from a home made alternator - definately didn't expect the power output to double!
Best way to present and explain dc vc ac power. And make it so fun along the way - enjoin a lot watching this . Grate work !!!
You: We need a different motor/generator.
Me: Duh. Upgrade yo' self.
You: We are gonna make it. From scratch.
me: You are my new favorite human.
Man I wish this was my first exposure to diode bridge rectifiers when I was a student. Great way to demonstrate how they work!
Man, you and me both!
I'm so happy that he's not skipping his explanations just to make a quick, flashy video. This is educational, and I love it.
Today I learned more in 15 minutes than I did in 5 years of school. Thank you. Subscribed
Wow.. absolutely love the way you explain the theories and science. Thank you so much for what you do. So happy I found your channel. Subscribed ✌️🙏😁
Quarantine really has us watching videos like this, and it’s actually very interesting.
your explination of inhaling and exhaling is perfection
This is the greatest video hands down for showing how a bridge rectifier works. Great video. Thank you.
I love how he explains everything. I wish he was my school teacher.
Don't know what your name is but we need to put Professor in front of it! You have probably taken 3 years of schooling and put it into 5 minutes! All bow down!
I've learned much in this video than what I have tried to learn in many, many, more videos and courses.
It makes so much more sense now...
Thanks a bunch!
This might be one of the best explanations of the alternator/generator/stater rectifier components Ive ever seen, and I'm a EE. Great video.
This is the way it should be thought in schools, thanks for the vid
Really, man, you're right!
This guy built his own alternator ?! This guy means business 👍
3D printing rocks! ....NOT FORGETTING that there must be some design software somewhere, so you can design these 3D shapes and then tell the 3D printer to make the item in question.
I loved the way you built that alternator yourself and also the explanation of the its working... And the rectification.
this is fantastic. you remind me just like my dad who always comes up with crazy outlandish builds and ideas around his home. he worked at a power station and loves all things mechanical and green and this channel is exactly the kind of thing I wish he would make as you share a similar personality. thank you for teaching the public in an easy to understand and fun way about physics, maths and cheap/free power generation :) can go along way to improving peoples homes and livelyhood. this Channel is my new favourite haha love your work
Me: *watches the whole series after the virus*
My nephew: Uncle what are you doing
Me: Nothing much just making electricity
Second video I've watched on this channel, already love it! Hope you're my dad!
Bahahaha!!! I'll pass that along to the two kids I know for sure are mine! 😂
The turbine needs a set of reduction gear since it has crazy RPM but less torque. If done correctly the efficiency is greater than a pelton wheel.
i love how you use a simpler analogy to explain stuff. please keep doing it like that, thank you for the video.
Great Quint, we learned in practical setup how generators, alternators and rectifiers work. Can imagine very satisfactory.👌
damn. i hope i had this when i was still studying. It would have been so much more interesting.
Practical explanation in a way I never seen before!
Good job!
Hey bro, have you thought about using a tesla turbine instead?
Interesting idea!
@@QuintBUILDs I want very much to see this made!
@@QuintBUILDs Why not reposition the direction of the jet from a 90 degree angle (versus vertical) to a 10 to 25 degree angle (from vertically down), so that a lot more gravitational energy is captured from the jet of water?
@@MarkRijckenberg still inefficient, a tesla turbine allows a lot of the energy to be utilized.
I had no idea rectifiers were so simple in construction. Fascinating stuff.
I learn more from watching your videos than I ever have in school! Thank you!
Just splashing the water onto the exterior wall and foundation seem to defeat the entire purpose of a gutter, so for this to make any practical sense you would need to somehow guide the water after the wheel into the drain. Like have the wheel running/mounted inside a pipe that leads to the drain.
Nah, just build a little shield around it. Some sheet metal encased around this, maybe with a little door for repair access, and you're golden.
When you watch a random video on a guy generating power from rain, and end up with a degree in hydroelectric engineering. (Obviously there's more to know)
This guy is a genius at teaching basic electronics. Hope this channel grows.
Thank you so much for this video! I never paid much attention to physics in high school, you are really great at explaining things and since you solve real life problems you make it both relevant and interesting to watch!
"FULL BRIDGE RECTIFIER!" -ElectroBOOM
Now to just add an extension to the roof to collect more water.
Or get a Bigga Roof! lol
Thank you for helping all of us who don't habe the tools to make the dream hobby happen, experience it through you.
This is probably the best video I've seen for axial motor generators! Love your channel and thank you!
This is a really really good explanation of how motors and electricity work. Thanks - I really like it. You know when someone really understands something when they can explain it to you plain as day... Would love to see more, thanks for providing interesting content!
This series is getting more and more amazing.
Omg ty so much for this! I’m an Mech E student and really struggled in my EE circuits classes. This video has done a lot to help me with concepts and designs for my own projects. Thank you so much!
Same sentiment as the below comments. An extremely good and yet simple, explanation of how it works. Appreciated.
Fluid Mechanics and Electromagnetism all in one. Love it!
I think this channel is awesome. It is funny that i had this ideal but i never did it because we get not as much rain here. But it is fun to see you do it, but just that you are educational and explain everything to the detail. I can tell you are a real engineer. Thank you, you take us there with you.
Hopefully it inspires me to do more projects, like a solar sterling engine ideal i have using some parabolic and reflective mirrors. I built part of the proof of concept i wanted to prove to myself, and now i am at the stage to build a mockup..
I'm telling you dude, the best breakdown ever!! Thanks for taking the time to enlighten us all! (I can tell, you had a lot of fun doing it as well)
Wow, amazing demonstrations of electronics within a framework (the hydro project) that makes it authentic and worth learning about. Bravo.
Entire college electrical semester summed up in one amazingly interesting video! Totally satisfied! Keep up the great work.
this is the best garage project I've ever seen in a while here in youtube! And I admire your amazing skill of explaining things.
Brilliant work. Stuff I knew about but better explained by you than I have ever seen.
Best description of a rectifier I've seen yet! Thanks!