Tesla Turbine Go-Kart

[TheBorgesjorge]

How long do you recommend the power cord be?

Can I get a copy of the schematics?

Thanks

[revcletis]

Cool !!

[TheDigitalWeb]

Cool! Will it plow a garden to grow weed?

[cumminsallthaway]

im gonna stick to my 444ci big block oil burning diesel truck, i think mine goes a little bit faster too. k bye

[DancesWithWords1]

Somebody needs to get seriously laid.

[AJxx117]

i think i would go faster if you just tured the leaf blower around and took of the tesla stuff lol

[jekader]

well that looks really efficient :D

[givemetoast]

Great learning project!

[EDPL]

czy to jest konkurs jak zmarnować energię?

[marktwainisgod]

Holy shit, I thought that I knew how to waste time in my shop but you have got me beat. Does your woman know about your frivolous activities?

[superbungabunga]

beats walking dont get?

[zrili]

hey try hooking up the electric motor to the wheels , bet that works better!

[ufoengines]

Loves it or hates it "Tesla Turbine Go Kart" has over 200,000 hits! LOL

[WHRU2011]

I like it, pretty clever. Its good practice and keeps hte mind sharp.

[seshoki]

Hey could you please make this video louder.

[d3m0niQue]

now that's slowly but surely :-bd

[DarrenDiAntonio]

Would it run if you gave it wheels and sat on it?

A pity it has no wheels and driver yet D:

[TheOriginalEviltech]

That's a no-Go-cart... fix the engine and the drive system, ti might actualy moove more than one meter...

[Garpk2]

tesla turbine go-shit

[TheVictor6951]

yu better call a taxi

[jrw6137]

I just read that tesla turbines under 50 HP are less efficient than a piston powered solution

[Romulus00001]

...lol... i ended up thinking about his wife comming home and finding him tinkering a "go-cart"

[Serostern]

Come on, disconnect the T/T, dig the motor out of the blower, and just belt directly from the leafblower motor to the axle =P

[beeohhski]

yo put a fatter gear on that turbine and it will go alot faster dont you know about gear ratios and crap like that

[microblah]

@beeohhski

Yes, and anyone who does will tell you that if you increase the output speed the (comparatively) low-torque turbine won't have enough power to turn the wheels at all.

[beeohhski]

@microblah re engineer it put 2 discs together and stick some fins between them so that air can get pushed between them

[beeohhski]

@microblah re engineer it put 2 discs together and stick some fins between them so that air can get pushed between them and get more grip surface tension an whatnot

[Bestimiami]

sweeeeeeeeet!

[WXIIIR]

probably it will run faster if you just point the leafblower backwards

[mabvsfd]

But does it blend?

[rubert134]

It might have moved faster if you took out the turbine and turned the blower the other way.

[ufoengines]

Hey, these are all pretty good try ... the greatest danger in riding a Tesla Turbine Go Kart from A to B is dying from old age.

[magnusalexa]

@ufoengines but atleast the vehicle with be a unique antique by that time

[Romanflight]

@ufoengines THAT WAS TO FUNNY, MAN. "OLD AGE."

[mkdri1]

/!\ PREPARE FOR EPIC RIPPING!!! /!\

is that as fast as it goes? It will get you to work in 1 week!

* Hey sorry guys, just rode my tesla cart to work today. Hey wait, where is everybody???

* A human could not physically walk that slow without some training. Or maybe while pushing a 500 ton army tank out of a ditch.

* you: Wanna race? me: [shifts into neutral gear] ... I win.

* people on electric car: GET A HORSE!! People on tesla turbine car: GET AN ELECTRIC CAR!!

Lulz...

[mkdri1]

is that as fast as it goes? It will get you to work in 1 week! Hey sorry guys, just rode my tesla cart to work today. Hey wait, where is everybody???

Lulz...

[trashy10]

i suggest u lose the blower and get a car batter and a old car starter from a junk yard get some jumper cables a bike chain and some sprockets and u will have a blast!!electric power high torque go kart fun! GL Bro

[islandboiitsi]

slow down speed racer!!!!!!!

[canoncola]

wow, that's awesome.



[7sevenELFeleven]

japan, here I come!

[MrRainbowxxx]

cool! best car! $-)

[kokopelli314]

Somehow, I was expecting something faster.

[DuncanDonuts3]

LOL

[kayzrx8]

Might as well point the blower towards the back im sure ull move alot faster.

[TheMrbum]

Well it is a very impressive rig there but not the quickest form of transport known.

[falcon2854]

Sounds like its going to take off like a jet but hardly moves. :O

[ufoengines]

Dude! , ...  your much to young to be such a hater, Check out my Clothes Whirly vid for some laughs.

[FinalFantasy11Man1]

Looks like a really shitty Vacuum hooked up to a birdhouse built by a retarded kid

[ufoengines]

No waste of time and energy!, ... was really much fun to build!

[nguyentuan1990]

waste of energy

[TheAffordableKilla]

But will it blend?

[ufoengines]

I would like to used " shop air " , but first I need a shop.

[mciceteade]

@ufoengines

everybody starts somewhere good project check out my mashine shop built tesla turbine

[mile0chicken]

If you still wanted to use the Tesla Turbine, you could use a 40-50 PSI shop air compressor, or you could mod a SCUBA tank.

[kevintheblacksmith]

This gives me so much joy !

[TheWupperdo]

$100 says that the cart would move faster if you just hooked up the leaf blower's motor instead

[ufoengines]

The 300 to 1 gearing is the only thing that is able to move it cause the cardboard disk turbine is so leaky and the small leafblower has so little pressure.

Check out my other video "leafblower powered go kart" and you'll see the kart moving a little better with a 100 to 1 gearing.

[YAMAHAYFZKID144]

IS there like a gear ratio causing it to go slow

[digitthecatx19]

the problem with this turbin is, well its wood, and its running off of a leaf blower. now if you had a modern tesla turbine with a means of steam or air pressure running through it, you should be running this go cart pretty fast

[ZipaxProductions]

jesus, emense speed!!!!!!!!!!

[ufoengines]

This may be the slowest go kart in all the world ... but it's the FASTEST "Tesla Turbine Go-Kart" in all of YouTube !

[blip789]

Nice one.......how many races have you won?

[ufoengines]

Yea, it is funny in a hopeless sort of way.

[aprodesign]

SHit-man's comming..!!!

[igorbukhantsov]

This is the slowest Go-Kart in the world

[TimpBizkit]

to be honest I think the motor out of the blower would make a much faster go kart

[TimpBizkit]

Not the fastest thing on four wheels but cool to watch

[TributeToTesla]

very nice

[ufoengines]

Ya, I needs to leave dis stuff to them smart guys.

[electron2222]

=O nice

[JDK1981]

thats cool though, its all about the power source, for you its a blower, not a 900 pounds of Psi, to bad its not faster, you could make one on a rechargable batt and  drive for free! ....or till the cops cryed you have a wooden car XD very cool though if they actually used more of teslas ideas and proven inventions they would change the world, but to bad all they want is money that they think makes them better than us.

[a2zhandi]

@JDK1981 they're surely living better than most of us. But it doesn't mean they're as happy and content as we are.

[ufoengines]

Aero ...what?

[frisc45]

have you considered aerodynamics on the kart?

[Victorx620]

wow, super fast...:!!!!!

[ufoengines]

I had some time to kill, I wanted to make a YouTube vid, and nobody had posted a Go Kart that used a Tesla Turbine, so .... TA DA! ... the "Tesla Turbine Go Kart" video was born!

To get really freaked, check out my "Clothes Whirly" vid.

[yaluobud]

Why would you bother?

[ufoengines]

From what I could tell from my simple paper and cardboard models is that the disk turbine has nearly zero low speed torque but you let it rev up to a couple to a couple of grand of rpm and then connect a load, it does some work.

Check out my other vids and you'll see one of my models spinning a motor/ generator, juicing a 2 volt bulb.

[Cropduster777]

Tesla turbines have shit-for-torque witch makes them nearly useless

[Asif410]

i need this every day I'm late from work

dude don't forget us (viewers) when you make into Forbes list thnx.

[serfeo86]

Гений билядь

[serfeo86]

Гиний блядь !

[KBendix]

That's how we develop technology.

[ufoengines]

OH MY GOD! ... Your Granny is DEAD but still slowing moving around a basement somewhere?

[qwertywrangler]

That thing moves slower than my grandmother, and she's dead.

[ufoengines]

Relax, .... this was all just a test, it wasted no more energy than you posting your comment .

[Konicava]

great way to waste energy

[mapukmapuk]

WTF?

[Drayger90]

WoW slow down there speedy gonzales :D

[rushman819]

Wowwww, so coolll, using electic to make move a motor that blowes air tru a propeller that is turning a small shalf that makes a larger gear turn to make move a tire....... (usless, why dont u plug the dam motor directly loll)

[19atiq98]

this on kart sure win. why? YOU BLOCK OTHER PLAYER MAN

[intheshitter]

More like a slow kart

[itJavier2010]

Needs airbags

still pretty awesome

[Qballfph]

don't take the go-kart kid, you'll kill yourself.

[wildeman008]

or take the turbine off the blower and hook it directly to the drive gear....

[ArticKiter]

funny



[iPyronic]

I clicked the link cuz it said there was a Go-Kart =D

Now I'm happy I did, that was interesting :)

Now if only wood was lighter...

[lorenzofarias317]

well, I expected much more, but it's a beginning.

[veghtomi19]

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha­hahahaha

[americanroute66]

sssllloooowwww

[HappyJackProduction1]

might as well plug in an electric motor instead, or use compressed air like your suppose to, just mount a air tank on the go cart.......simple. Of course soon as you move 10 feet the air tank will be empty lol.

[DanFrederiksen]

hehe seems just a tad inefficient. try a higher gearing

[ufoengines]

But still, .... it moves!

[HEMAS13]

LOUD AND INEFFICIENT

[akudlanov]

you can try using the leaf blower to just blow on the cart from behind. probly will go faster lol

[ufoengines]

Well, it's not a total flop, it did move about eight feet. Check out my Leaf Blower Powered Go Kart vid, that moved over one hundred feet!

[oldschoolsituationz]

@ufoengines lol! i guess the leaf blower has more power output than the telsa turbine...

[HeadShot360IN]

.... not really going anywhere... you can only call it a kart, not a go-kart, since you are missing one of the vital parts; the part in the name saying that it GOES anywhere. i give you the Certificate of Fail, congrats!

[hifatpeople]

I say the world should run on water and electricity.

[ufoengines]

Heads up viewers, the sound of the leafblower might be a little noisey for some folks.

[supremeon1]

MOTHERFUCKER !!!!!!!!!!! WHAT A STUPID VIDEO !!!!!! ASSHOLE... DROP DEAD!!!!!!!!!! you should say that the sound will become very loud, idiot !!! i switched my speakers louder, couse i wasn't hearing anything, and than, all of a sudden... my pulse is still high... YOU'RE FULL OF SHIT !!!

[hyper080]

@supremeon1 LOL

[theoryspecialist]

@supremeon1 ROFLMAO

[alanlausinhrvatska]

that amount of electrical power you can use to pover up a real elektromotor... but nice try

[coilsinamotor]

yah u have to carry a cord with you now :) 2 mph ahahha

[monkeys1954]

not bad for what it is. it proves the tesla turbine works

[myoniwy]

w 0:19 słychać strzały.

[ufoengines]

If I used just the leaf blower, then I could not call it a "Tesla Turbine Go Kart"

Check out my "Go Kart Powered by Leaf Blower" vid. Folks seemed to think the Tesla vid is way more cool.

[12dart12]

why not just use the motor in the leaf blower?

[mbudd121]

you could get to 88mph, but your blower would need to hit speeds of 378,298 mph,

[ufoengines]

If this baby ever hit eighty eight miles per hour, you'd be seeing some serious Shine-Ola!

[fortunanike]

We dont have enough power to get up to 88

[ufoengines]

Check out the YouTube "Infinia Stirling Solar Generator". It sold me. Let's build tens of thousands of these sun powered Stirling to go really green!

[ufoengines]

Ya know, a "how to build a cardboard and paper Tesla Turbine" YouTube might be a good idea.

[derdernixcheckt]

can you make an video how you build it?

[ufoengines]

This can not be the worst thing you have ever seen, check out my "Clothes Whirly" vid if you need a real shock.

[sutadebastos]

=)) hahaha...this is the worst thing i have ever seen...1 you put a powerful blower which is much more expensive than what you get from your silly contraption...if you could have put the blower directly into the wheels of your cart! did you see it move? yes 1 mm per hour!

[ufoengines]

The " Tesla Turbine Go Kart" tag sort of over sells this vid a little bit.

[SCRTpilot]

What was the goal? Make more noise than movement.

Congrats, you've done it!

But it's nice the home made turbine works fine.

[ufoengines]

A hydro powered tesla turbine go kart sounds really cool!

I guess you'd have a pressurized a water tank blasting a stream of water ot 100 psig into a tesla tubine that's geared to the drive wheel at say a 100 to 1 drive ratio.

Check out the "tesla water Turbine" youtube for some ideas that might be helpfull.

Your very first step is build your water powered tesla turbine, and then connect it to a garden hose and see how much torque you get from it.

Good Luck.

[luc59457]

@ufoengines Maybe this is well beyond my time, but I would love to see a Stirling Solar Dish Electric hybrid, where the trough (U-shaped) Parabolic dish charges the batteries in the day, with much better output that a Photovoltaic-battery vehicle. Even a Solar Steam Dish Electric hybrid would be cool to see. Dishes on top of vehicle, transparently enclosed to maintain aerodynamics and prevent damage of the mirrors and device. Sun trackers present. Aircraft could use this technology too.

[Guitardude1616]

im planning on making a go kart with a tesla turbine using metal discs and maybe using water instead of air to power it. got any tips?

[ikwillet]

although I appreciate the experiment, I wonder if it wouldn't go faster when the blower is turned backwards...

[derman077]

oh you meant directly powered

See I thought the Tesla turbine spun a generator of magnets and copper coils to make ac electricity which was then rectified and turned to dc and fed into a battery bank hooked up to a control box that is used to drive an electric motor through a gearbox into the wheels.

but directly is cool too

nice build, especially in such time

[redsquirrelftw]

That would be the perfect car for Toronto area. Don't really need to go any faster then that during rush hour! haha. I don't even know why people there bother to drive. Faster to just walk to work.

[PowerMirai85]

it would be more simple to use the blower engine directly for the cart lol

[drbelli]

We be Kludging.. :D

[madmanmapper]

this kart isnt going very well...

[flowjo25]

u are the man very cool how can i make one

[Beaverman20]

Fuuuck my ears bleed now o.O

[ufoengines]

Yes, it has been long known the any of the major auto makers could make a low cost , safe , electric car for the world's people, it's just the extention cord for it would cost one hundred thousand bucks!

[ufoengines]

There was so little torque from this disk turbine / leaf blower set up, that I just kept increasing the drive ratio till I got it to move. If you check out my "leaf blower powered go kart" vid I used a much smaller ratio. Keep in mind, this was built over the week end from junk from found around the house.

[danielmelton0]

why are the gear ratios backwards? the turbine should have the bigger gear not just the shaft from the engine, it would increase the speed of it dramatically, as far as torque i couldn't tell you but im pretty sure that may be increased as well :/

[Rakemaan]

@danielmelton0 You can have one or the other by gearing: speed or torque.

The engine's power is fixed and power = torque x rotational speed. Raise the one and the other must go down proportionately. The gearing is right.

[ufoengines]

If I did all that you say to do, it wouldn't be powered by a tesla turbine.

[x65535x]

Rip that leaf blower apart and just slap a couple of pulleys on to lower the RPM to the wheels, that's like a 100x efficiency boost, the thing would actually move.

[rekinu5]

Too much energy  for too little work :/

[ufoengines]

Too much time, and not enough money!

[weeekpol]

you have too much time !!!

[RCPhilN]

lol, it's still faster then my grandma...

[ufoengines]

Not fake ....... Real! Check out my "Leaf Blower Powered Go Kart" youtube.

[MediaMisDirected]

fake

[ufoengines]

Thanks for all the comments! Everybody please take a look at my " leaf blower powered go kart " vid. It worked somewhat better then the disk turbine kart.

[mrtackattack]

Good Build but not a very thoughtful mean of transportation

[ufoengines]

Yea you guys a most likely right, but then the disk turbine wouldn't spin round and round!

[dglenn247]

lol, not being mean....wouldnt you go faster if you just turned the leaf blower around and used it as jet like propulsion?

good build though.

[triptospace]

Its so beautifull that you make go-cart with tesla turbine, but I cant belive that you waste time with making go-cart powered from outlet. xD

[ufoengines]

Are you saying that a three hundred to one reduction with a friction drive to a rear wheel is NOT going to get me the poll position at the indy 500?

[bazengao]

@ufoengines don't forget about the hundreds of extention cords you'll need to do a lap with an eletric blower!

[luc59457]

@ufoengines I have heard of Stirling Dishes providing up to 15kilowatts each, in the Arizona desert. Even up north, or with a smaller dish, a couple thousand watts constant is plenty if your car is just sitting and being charged. When there's no sun, you can optionally plug it in your home. Otherwise, homes can be powered with these devices too, and where there's no sun, there is sun in many other places. Electricity can be quickly distributed, faster and more efficiently than gas.

[luc59457]

@ufoengines In conclusion,less use of gas,saves money in a lot of areas. But at the same time,reduces demand,thus reduces employment. To compensate, an economy needs a heck of a lot more jobs in the alternatives sectors. Steam engines may provide more output per size than Stirling, however, Steam requires more parts and preferably a looped water system to be self sustainable. Either way,Stirling engines,located slight north or south can be practical to power homes, where there's sufficient sun.

[tracey6999997777770]

this shits sick try some gearing next time

these little turbines get almost no torque

[ufoengines]

Please folks do not panic! I just wanted to see if a go kart using a disk turbine made from scrap materials could be made to work, and it did, ... sort of.

My next design will use a cardboard impulse turbine running off an air tank at 60psig.

Thanks for looking and the comments...... they keep me going.

[ufoengines]

Hey everybody!, please check out my other vid " Go Kart Powered by Leaf Blower" it's got a cool sound track!

[ufoengines]

Yes, 100% efficiency wan not achived. However a disk turbine was used in making the go kart move.

[garyegray]

110VAC input for the air blower to power a turbine that then moves the device forward at 1/10th MPH. Hugely inefficient.

[Brok3nC4rrot]

would it work better to attach the flywheel directly to the turbine, rather than by a belt?

[ufoengines]

The motion like grammer ... not so good.

Not with that leaf blower, it's pretty weak. It was just strong enought to give me the air flow to spin that disk turbine, the reduction pulley, and move the kart about as fast as the second hand of a Timex watch. Now if I used a 5hp leaf blower ZA- ZOOM!