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[tab=10]Quick run on a small alcohol burner. RPM over 200 and possibly around 260 but I dont know how much the steel wool displacer wrapped in aluminum will handle so I made it a short run to see the current RPM capacity on a hotter flame. Bearings(not oiled) added and cooling system not hooked up i...

Sure theropod2. The vent is just what we've seen on other Stirlings. The tube coming out of the Heat Chamber does two things I can see. 1, It provides draft for the flame which increases efficiency of the flame. 2. Guides excess heat away from the cooling section of the cylinder. I first simply held...

Got it going a little faster than the video but still slightly disappointing that the engine currently wont turn the fan even. Its consistent but slow enough I can count the pops of the diaphragm revealing 280 rpms. Not too bad at my skill level but if Im going to achieve my goal of using the self c...

Still shots of the Cooling System

Dry run of the latest engine. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGa4HUYLZMQ Had to make sure the engine would run first. It seems there's not enough power to run the pump yet but would drive the fan Im sure. Time for some tweaking of the crank and such. Im hearing a squeaking which I think is the disp...

derwood wrote:Too many variables! A person could go crazy trying to fine tune these engines.

Ditto!!!! ...especially with my low end stirlings. Its all good tho, superb challenges.

That was confusing me Derwood. one of my videos shows what appears to be a slow down when appling more heat before it did increase rpm. After your post I was trying to understand the dynamics of such. Have a look at the video Im speaking of... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TycrOca7sk Even tho its...

Full, the Triboelectric Effect that we talked about...
(For use with VanDeGraff and CFL )

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triboelectric

Oh, I read the heatpipe info last night. Thank you Sir. Sounds interesting. So many ways to accomplish something! Youre right Full, about there being combinations not tried yet. That Peltier module is very interesting for cooling. $5 and runs on voltage a Stirling can deliver.

Crap! ...Waiting for some glue to dry, I finally watched this video, overlooked it several times as a generator is something Ive already done before. He referenced Popular Science magazine from around 1962. Well, Im pretty jealous. My only consolation is "my still unfinished one" Haha, is ...

In working on what im calling the Super Cooler I figured I might go ahead and run it some while Im pondering the external cooling. Adjusting and tweaking still, I went ahead and put one tea lamp under it but no water coolant. I can say that while it took a while to heat up the bottom end got too hot...

Full, you have PM messages here at the forum I sent.

Hyperloop: Yea but its got one cool set of headphones! Haha Tesla Coil: YEa, and wonder how far you'ld have to be away to watch TV, listen to the radio, talk on the phone, Cd or HAM set? He's shutting down a lot of "who knows what" in the area. I just wanta lil bigger VanDeGraff in the liv...

Yep, saw that one too, :-) Ive got a diaphragm built for but didnt want to split the pressure on an engine just yet. I was thinking of a dual power cylinder motor off one larger volume displacer later. Im sure it takes "something" away, nothings free. Working on the crank here now.

Oh yea! Love that video. Im not as good with electronics as you might think me being an electrician. I'm more of a construction and hook-up kinda guy with a skilled welders hand. I just do what the drawings say to do. I do understand theory pretty well however. I have to say Ive never seen a earth b...