Peltier Candle Powered JT

[Pirate88179]

Hey, failure is how we discover what does NOT work...equally important to finding what DOES work.

If I made a Youtube video of my failures, it would be way too large a file to upload.

Bill

[resonanceman]

Yes I have seen all of those! Very cool stuff...the first one is ok. Anyway I think I am gonna play with a laminar flow sterling for power gen. I ordered a piston and cylinder from airpot.com. Cant wait to see what comes of it.

Unzapped

Looks like some really nice cylinders  at that site.
I have never heard  of a laminar flow sterling.
Can you tell me a  little more about it?

I can't imagine  how you would  make  a sterling with just one cylinder .......unless  you are using it for the smaller piston  on  a displacment type stering


gary

[unzapped]

Gary,
See here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-d8TGYanAtk

I am actually engineering this to be sold as a kit I think... Cuz i cant find one for less than $99... lol

These are really cool. Not sure it is truly laminar flow...maybe more of a heat engine... Some call it thermoacoustic...

UZ

[resonanceman]

Gary,
See here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-d8TGYanAtk

I am actually engineering this to be sold as a kit I think... Cuz i cant find one for less than $99... lol

These are really cool. Not sure it is truly laminar flow...maybe more of a heat engine... Some call it thermoacoustic...




UZ

Unzapped

Thermocaustic is  something I have never heard of before......It makes  sense though.
I was trying  to see how  it could be a sterling but not  understanding it.
To me the name thermocaustic  seems to be seems to be saying that  something is being  burnt  .....
If it is burning something....that something will have to be replaced.

If I was  you  I would go with a simple  sterling..........burning anything is a dirty process......... a sterling  would run  clean for its entire life.

Do  you understand how  sterlings work?
If  you don't I can  explain it ....... at first  they are hard to understand........but they are probably  the most simple most elegant engine ever made.

gary

[resonanceman]

I am actually engineering this to be sold as a kit I think... Cuz i cant find one for less than $99... lol

Unzapped

Do  you have the resources to have some parts made up?

Most of my background is with simple machines.......I know nothing  about electronics.,,,,,,,except  what I have learned on this thread.

gary