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Can you get 12 hrs of duty cycle from the fire in barel to generator or is it barly 3 4 hrs with burn cooldown cleanout repack ?

Have you ever thought of doing a gravity auto fill system say with a 90 45 *joint at top of burn bin and then a simple tube to a funnl style that can handle a bag of pellets so just put a full bag of pellets up top light the barrel and have a way longer burn cycle for what I'm thinking for this type of setup

This thing is so simple it’s scary. Great work in presenting an impossible concept.

Love that you made it work with a oil drum but that looks to thin as the part your using it for I love that you have a open top also to help disperse moisture at combustion side

Can you add heat fins to the front of your cold side piping to help dispel heat and would a seperate fire box side with a side thats settable as a shelf inside to get the raw fuel #1 burning hot keep burning hot but the upper settable shelf would be set just below flash point compard to just load and go as a continuous system oh! I love your vortex vaper seperator propane tank set up that looks sooo much better for moisture in the system to find a collection point compared to other vids on yt

Actually that looks like a potentiometer with a resistor just like a guitar tone knob guts actually

Omg I miss radio shack back in the 80s in Canada we don't got them anymore:(

You should have bought a battery operated crosscut its cheaper then all that inefficient mess👎👎👎

i'm 10 years late but i wanted to say this is good for some zombie survival situation that i might be in

would something like this be possible with hot sand? That way you could reuse and reheat the sand?

Second time around. I like it . Picasso.

Just bring them big boys down here. I'd love to mess around with them logs

10 years later and it helped me figure out how to reload 9mm Flobert so I'd say this video is great, practical and cost effective even if the demonstration round was a common .22

Horry chit man how freakin cool now have one for a car ? Smelling wood much better than gas & oil an just watched guy have one he bought for 7,500 an was having issues with wet wood an u nailed yours bad arse u da man mcgiyver

I realize that this was posted 11 years ago, but you should take a look at some 555/556 timer circuits for a pulse width modulator where you can control the pulse width from a potentiometer. The output of that circuit goes to a beefy power transistor like a 2N3055 configured as a current amplifier. You can also use a power MOSFET, but make sure to observe precautions for electrostatic sensitive devices. You can also use a IGBT (Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistor) and feed that directly to the motor. You will need a capacitor followed by an inductor and a voltage snubber after that so the motor has a smooth DC current applied to it and any transient voltage spikes are suppressed so the electronics are not damaged. For the two valves that you have to regulate fuel/air, have you looking into using an Arduino microcontroller. They have a boat load of sensors that you can attach. The main thing that you need is an O2 sensor in the fuel/air line. Since O2 sensors require heat to operate, you would need one that has a preheater. The output a voltage between 0 and 1 volt depending on the O2 concentration. You can attach R/C servos to the valves so the computer can automatically control the mix. The computer will also need a tachometer so it knows what the RPM of the engine is can properly throttle the generator to 1800 RPM for the powerhead so you get the correct frequency output. As for the heat problem, you could try running a longer tube between the gasifier and the cyclone filter, weld some cooling fins on it and cover it with a shroud. Then using a air mattress inflator, you can force air through there to help cool it down. There are high temperature rubber hoses too. The one that I would probably go with is a dryer exhaust hose. You could also weld cooling fins vertically on the burn can to help keep it cool. Since you seem to have a lot of waste heat, you could place the burn barrel with the fins inside a shroud and insulate it. Feed the exhaust heat from the tube into it. The output could go directly into your house for heat. That way, nothing is wasted and the energy from the wood is fully utilized. A simpler solution is if you can guarantee that there are no leaks, you could place the gasifier indoors and point a fan at it to heat a room in your house then run the fuel line outside to where the generator is. Overall, I am impressed with what you have made.

I think it would be more effective to use a square ended stick rather than a pointed stick that will not push it to the rim

extra kudos for the recycled (upcycled) parts. Very inspiring video.

Thx

Cooling the gasses down before filtering actually makes the filter alot more effective

Hi-great job on the gassifier -will this run petrol and diesel engines?

excellent!!!!

Trucks in WW2 ran on a configuration like this also having a small steam engine would be a good solution having both would be ideal .

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Lol not impossible, nothing is impossible, just not worth it, but I can see how it would be a neat thing to try just for fun..

What about putting a filter assembly on the generator intake?....would worry a lil about any dirt and whatnot being drawn into carb....great video

how about copper pipe inside the drum circulate water to also heat your water at the same time.

You might as well run a steam.boiler and put a turbine and gear to turn the motor.

Worked like a champ!! Appreciate the info~ 😎

Thanks for this. My trigger pins moved today. Came home and realized Palmetto installed my spring incorrectly. Works fine now thanks to your video :)

You might consider installing A dessicant pack to your air intake to keep moisture out of the engine when not in use...if you use it infrequently.

Cool setup but the price of wood pellets is getting crazy maybe the next video you could show how to make your own pellets.

wow thats a really nice gasifier and very well expalained. im just asking myself how is the generator inside looking after longterm use? did you opened it after some time of use?

Thank s for video I’m starting to buy pieces checking scrap yards Again thanks for the video

Can I used walnuts shell I keep planting walnuts trees and get tons of wall nut shells I throw out barrels and barrels barrels of walnuts shell.

This is good info to have if shit actually hit the fan. People are trashy.

Heres an idea. Coil some copper pipe around the parts that are getting hot, hook the pipes up to a radiator with a fan and boom, its also a free heating system and keeps it cool

Use 2 suction cups for automobile dent repair.

well done, great video and very well explained!

Great video. Thank you.

Great idea. I was looking for something like this. Would 1 1/4 square tubing work as well? My wagon is like yours but smaller

How would a gassifier compare to a Stirling heat engine driven directly by the heat of combustion of the wood?

Great job! I have some questions about practicality: - In a situation where petrol isn't available, it seems unlikely that wood pellets would be available. Can you run this thing on logs, branches, twigs, kindling etc? - How long can you run this on a single "tank" of wood? - If you load the generator, does it stall? - What regular and irregular maintenance is required? For example, how often do you have to replace the wood shavings in the filter? How often do you need to clear the ash? How often do you need to empty the jam jar? Are there other jobs necessary to keep it running over years? Do any of those jobs involve partial or full disassembly? Its amazing to see a petrol engine run on wood, now I want to know what its like to actually use this cool tech.

Shur looks more like a propane cylinder than a freon cylinder. Get your nomenclature correct before blowing your stupidity out in the open.

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Great explanation on how the Spicer Gearbox and Synchros function... Hope the young one watching you took it all in...

Thank-you I was looking for such a video. Thumbs up and a new subscriber here thanks again

Great video

Thank you. I’m about to do something similar

Beautiful super Gasifires are being introduced but bit too slowly in Pakistan too as in Pakistan we are suffering from eLecticty shortage and expensive crisis In Pakistan we are more accustumed to solar energy as alternative source of energy Please

Get a decent power supply and motor controller for your fan, more efficient and save. -- question: Do you need a spark arestor (feedback protection ) since you ignite your fuel source????? Don't you have to hide this from youe local authorities??