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| Schematic of a direct drive
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Tour the Aspen Hollow Hydro Site
Sketch of frame with shaft water seal and splash walls
Pelton and turgo sizing spreadsheet turgo.xls
Momentum Balance model spreadsheet impulse.xls
Coupled Pipe Friction Loss & Turbine Spreadsheet pipedp.xls (uses macros)
Kevin Eckstein's Advanced Pipe Friction Loss & Turbine Spreadsheet pipedp4k.xls (uses macros)
Hub Drawings: 20, 24, and 26 Blue Spoon , 30 Orange Spoon
A handy land and water conversion
chart produced by Smith-Hartvigsen
PLLC,
a Salt Lake City based law firm specializing in water and
natural resource law.
