motion guru
Diamond
- Joined
- Dec 8, 2003
- Location
- Yacolt, WA
This is a project we started about 2 years ago and recently commissioned for our customer. There are 12 each 200HP Siemens drives networked together and combined with a series of actuators on the floor of the pool to move the wave around.
All controlled wirelessly from an iPad . . . of course everything we provided is underground and out of sight, but the end results are pretty fun. My son did a lot of the operator interface programming to make it easy for the lifeguard to operate the pool and react to any safety issues.
Quite a number of challenges putting that much power into the water. GFCI anyone? No need to heat the pool, the inefficiency of the pump motors, impellers, and piping provide ample heat.
Oddly enough we are also working on a WEC project . . . a “Wave Energy Capture” system to harness wave energy in the ocean to generate electricity. Will need a couple WEC systems in a high sea state to generate enough power to run the “wave generator” In the video above.
All controlled wirelessly from an iPad . . . of course everything we provided is underground and out of sight, but the end results are pretty fun. My son did a lot of the operator interface programming to make it easy for the lifeguard to operate the pool and react to any safety issues.
Quite a number of challenges putting that much power into the water. GFCI anyone? No need to heat the pool, the inefficiency of the pump motors, impellers, and piping provide ample heat.
Oddly enough we are also working on a WEC project . . . a “Wave Energy Capture” system to harness wave energy in the ocean to generate electricity. Will need a couple WEC systems in a high sea state to generate enough power to run the “wave generator” In the video above.