Solar powered Stirling Engine & water pump
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Real nice job! glad to see something other than a heat motor just spinning a flywheel. it is a step foward no doubt. i dont know because i dont have one but it looks like these motors just like to spin, and not do any work. kind of a radiometer of sorts. so why not use the flywheel motion to be more like a wimherst machine. and then find a way to charge batteries with that energy? just a thought, and thankyou for the video.
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Next step, use the water to cool the cold end of the engine!
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It is very good and it MIGHT help solve the problems of the world! I have an experimental tracking system that can focus the energy from 9 or 10 sq ft on a stirling engine. Thats about 45 times the power of your working water pump! Or you could go bigger it you wanted.
The idea is about 5 months old and so far i just have it at model stage.
Anyone can try it, it is a free idea, it is open source and available at appropedia.
Combined with stirling engines, perhaps it can change the world.
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dude you have saved the world XD
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cool
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smart
where could I get stirling engine?
vaidotas86 2 years ago
Most people make them in their garage with a few machine tools (a lathe and a milling machine), but you sometimes see them on e-bay.
Uniflow 2 years ago
Is the displacer roughly 2/3rds the length of bore?
annular wall gap? Nice thanks for the extra sparks of inspiration.
441rider 2 years ago
The power cylinder is 3/4" bore and stroke. The displacer is 3/4" bore and 1 1/8" stroke. As the power piston is never at top dead centre when the displacer is at bottom centre, the two can overlap by about 3/16", giving a slight improvement to the compression ratio, which is very small at the best of times.
Uniflow 2 years ago
Annular gap is about 15 thou.
Uniflow 2 years ago
Just wondering if you have played with the gear ratio? Would the sterling engine turn a larger diameter pulley mounted to it and a smaller one to the pump?
carolinasled 2 years ago
-The gear ratio was already fixed but I tried to get the most out of the set-up by pumping the water from as low as possible and if I put the bottle on the floor it would not run at all. I had to raise the bottle on the bucket so as to reduce the load, I had tried various other heights first and that seemed to get the best result. The engine was designed to run on a candle, when it runs much faster.
Uniflow 2 years ago