A day's work at the waterfall

My collegues and I went to Kancing forest reserve to do some work. Mainly trying to channel water through a hose from the top of the waterfall to the bottom. Well, it was for the micro turbine that we bought.

Started off by lugging the hose (which was 40 m long and heavy). Kam Tat (i think) carried the hose. We set up the hose at the top and then threw the hose down.

At first not much water....some tinkering and walla.....4 m/s....double of what we have but still not enough. Then we adjust some more....but din work. Well, we sort of figured 2 things, one, we need a bigger water intake head at the top to channel more water in, two, it seems that if there is a 'storage' scenario at the bottom, higher water inflow will generate higher flowrate and it will help power the turbine.

So back to the drawing room to design a simple funnel like inlet for the hose. Haha....had some fun after that playing water.

Some pics of the place we went:

Rays of sunlight through the trees

Low at the waterfall

Kancing forest reserve entrance to waterfall