NDSS Solar Stirling 2

A video of the NDSS solar stirling and new tracking system in action after one hour of flawless opperation at 600 RPM. It is in fact running but my camera lacks the necessary FPS to capture the RPM'S properly.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• NDSS
• stirling
• solar
• engine
• DIY

[Zontaar]

Ah!!! The sun on Earth is hurting my Alien eyes!!! :)

Sweet Stirling engine!

[roidroid]

instead of my rough estimates, this time i actually timed the sound for 64 clicks. It took 6.29 seconds. Which roughly makes the noise repeat 640 times a minute. So if it's only knocking on one end (ie: i don't have to double the RPM), it's likely it'll average out at about 600rpm over the whole video.

phew

SCIENCE!

[Gunstick]

I checked the video data, it's 10FPS. So the engine runs also at 10rps because is seems to stand still. That's exactly 600rpm.

[roidroid]

from the sound of it, it's going at somewhere around 480rpm or 960rpm (depending on whether than *knock* i can hear is on both ends of the cylinder, or just one end.)

Can you tell us more about that tracking system? It looks kinda wild :P