Domestic water pressure-flow powered generator system

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In combination with a building including a battery powered auxiliary electrical wiring system and a pressurized domestic water system including a supply pipe having an inlet end portion communicated with a source of water under pressure exteriorly of said building and an outlet end portion connected to various domestic water outlets within said building, a power generating system including a fluid motor having a rotatable output shaft and a fluid inlet and a fluid outlet, said fluid motor being disposed within said building and serially connected in said supply pipe with said inlet communicated with said inlet end portion and said outlet communicated with said outlet end portion, whereby each discharge of water from one of the said various outlets will cause water to flow through said motor and said outlet shaft to be rotated, an electric generator provided with a rotary input shaft, said output shaft being drivingly connected to said input shaft, a bank of storage batteries, said generator including a pair of electrical potential output conductors electrically connected to said bank of batteries for recharging the same, current regulating means, said electrical output conductors being electrically connected to said bank of batteries through said current regulating means, said auxiliary domestic electrical wiring system electrically connected to said bank of storage batteries.