Wow. Some people might think that software (programming) is impossible to understand, but to me (a programmer) I think that hardware is just insane, how someone can figure out all of the little joints and valves and weights to make something move like that in the physical world is beyond me...
@@watnoudan me too I looked some stuff up but it might be possible to have a engine halfway dipped in water and the other half out and the temp difference be great anuf to turn the engine
The soundwave of te "click"-sound when turning off the lighter, was enough to throw of the coin... Imagine now, how smooth this engine itself was...! Producing less vibrations, than the "click"-sound of a lighter...! ;-)
Hi Latheman666, perfect this engine and this magnificent balancing both horizontal and vertical. Excellent job. Congratulations On. Greetings from Brazil Armando Barlotti
check out the Engine of a Ducati Supermono. it has a Pseudo Crank (Counter weight) too to make it run smooth which is not so commen for a 1 cylinder bike.
@@scotttaylor215 Nope, this is a dual cylinder style sterling engine, with a 'hot' and 'cold' cylinder. Both are required to run, as the engine operates on the principal that the gas will decrease in volume when moved to the cool cylinder and increase in volume when moved to the hot cylinder. There is another kind of sterling engine that has one cylinder, but it still works on the same principal as in this configuration, there is, in addition to the power piston, a large 'displacer' inside the cylinder that is like a piston, but lets the gas around the edges. It's duty is to displace the gas from one side or the other and force it to move between the hot and cold ends of the cylinder. However, in all cases, the sterling engine requires no valves whatsoever. In fact, the interior of the engine, whether one or two cylinder configuration, is one continuous volume that is sealed to the outside.
Stirling engines could possibly be used in charge hybrid cars to drive the generator if the drive train is all electric. A longer start sequence wouldn't be an issue then. A Stirling engine can reach 50% efficiency, a modern diesel about 40% and a petrol engine around 30-35%
These are very cool but I am interested in them for their utilitarian value. Have you tested how much torque it can produce, hooked it up to a generator to se how many watts it can produce, or otherwise tried to see how much useful work of some kind it can do?
Interesting design works well.🎉 So many different types they are definitely making a comeback with the Chinese making a 300kw sterling engine. Some large bore V4 versions are around 80kw.
do you think this motor set over a bonfire or partially included into the side of the rock ring would be enough to pump air back into the fire to create a hotter fire?
Thanks! That would make a lot of sense, I know a German engineering student that told me they make motors as part of their coursework. I immediately found one for sale on ebay.de, now I will have to save some $$ for it
You can find many different kinds of Stirling engine models on Amazon. Here's the link: www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=stirling+engine
Hey Paul, I dont find it on ebay either, but I would be very interested in buying it, please could you possibly link me the offer? Would be really nice :)
What is the purpose of the extra (bottom two) linkages connected to the crank shaft? And what is it called? Is it to balance the weight of the lobe in the verticle axis?
Heat directly converted to mechanical movement, using air...amazing design! Unfortunately the efficiency of Stirling engines is low but you could use nuclear heat this way to make an atomic jet, car, ship etc.
Actually for heat engines they are the most efficient, their most major problem however is power density. To highlight this issue a Stirling engine that makes say 40 HP might need a cylinder the size of a 55 gallon drum to do it, while a much smaller and lighter IC engine you could entirely fit in a suitcase will easily use 2-3x (Diesel and Gasoline respectively) the fuel to make that same power.
Does it work with gears or is the static friction too much to overcome for the first cycle? I noticed you mentioned "if the belt breaks" it just goes until it cools off or destroys itself.
Yes it will get cold. If you supply external power to a Sterling engine, it acts as a heat pump, moving heat from one end to another. In fact, do a search for Sterling Cryocooler. Unfortunately, the Sterling engine isn't as efficient as a Rankine cooler for higher temperatures, but for -30 to -40 degrees Celsius, the Rankine coolers aren't effective since there are no refrigerants that boil at low a temperature. At that point, the Sterling engine is quite useful and a single stage cooler is capable of getting to about 73 K (able to liquefy nitrogen, oxygen, argon). You can get colder using a two stage system to get down to 20 K (hydrogen and neon), but there are other methods of getting that cold or colder more efficiently.
your question lacked clarity. if (rotational) force/energy is put in at the Crankshaft, what was the hot side becomes colder. what was the cold side, gets warmer. the affect is just a novelty. this is not an energy efficient way to produce cooling. in part, because there is an Excessive amount of heat produced, Along with the cool. googletranslate
The power to size can be made just as good as IC engines if the operating temperature and pressure is high and proper regeneration of the heat is used.
+Jack Fergusen If all was made of brass it would conduct more heat to the cold part and thus waste it. The best would be to make only the part that is over the flame from a good thermal conductor like brass and the connection between hot and cold part of the displacer from a bad conductor like stainless steel and then the cold part again from a good conductor.
The Sterling Engine only requires a difference in temperature between the chamber and the outside of the machine. You could power it on the top of your computer, though it wouldn't be as strong as one powered by a kerosene candle.
You can clearly observe second order harmonic vibrations left to right due to the fact that the connecting rod is not of infinite length and the piston has different values for acceleration and deceleration at both ends (top and bottom or left and right in this case). This effect cannot be counterbalanced that easily. Also, it is also in the vertical plane, but there it is not that important, as the base is rigid enough.
From what I've been able to figure for an engine to be perfectly balanced, one way would be to have opposing pistons that connect to the same point on the crankshaft and go in and out and fire at the same time. One piston would have split connecting rod that overlaps the other's, with exactly the same weight. The connecting rods would drive the crank 180 degrees from each other on opposite sides. All up and down and side to side motion should then exactly be opposed and balanced by the opposing overlapping piston con rod setup. I have a picture on my other computer that I drew.
+sirgallium I thought so as well, but in my head I imagine that a twisting force would be applied because the pistons are not inside eachother, they are offset by the flywheel, so when one goes down and the other up, you will get a twisting force acting with the flywheel as the center? Probably pretty smooth, but not perfectly balanced
that happens when the recording speed gets pretty similar to the engines speed(or in this case half of the engine speed). So the engine is probably doing around 15 rps (if this was recored at 30fps).
it's called the flicker frequency and happens at multiples of 24 ... 24 frames a second being what your eyes and brain can process at one time ... this is why video's make still pictures seem to move ... after 36 frames you wont recognize a change to quality until approximately 72 frames a second .. it happens to be on a logarithmic scale.
0623kaboom the flicker frequency is just about how small the time between two stimulations can be so your eye cant differciat them, thats not same as something feeling smooth, you can have a smooth picture but your eyes will start to hurt over time if the frequency of what ever device your looking at is to low. Alot depends on the person, the age, how strong the change is and many other things. Also the processing speed of your brain can increase temporary, that's what happens when you can feel time "slowing down" in a dangerous situation. But unfortunately this has not much to do with the effect you can see in this video because the effect of something standing still, because it has the same frequency as the recording only happens to cameras not the human eye. For the human eye fast moving stuff just becomes blurry.
Incorporate it into a rocket stove to pump hot water produced from the rocket stove. You could circulate hot water through a cement slab to heat or switch the system and cool the home all by using this engine! ; )
If you took a 50 gallon drum, filled it about half full of pig droppings, ran a tube up to the place where you have the wick, I think you could have an engine run as long as you could get the pig to make your fuel. Might work with cow droppings too.
Ein herrlicher Motor. Den würde ich gerne in meinem Briefkasten finden... Haben wir uns mal über einen Manson made in China unterhalten? Der auf Ebay 150 USD gekostet hätte?
+Latheman666 Danke für die prompte Antwort. Den beobachte ich schon. Aber der Anbieter zieht seine Angebote immer zurück, wenn er mit dem Preis nicht zufrieden ist. Vielleicht braucht er diesmal doch den Verkaufserlös... Haben wir uns mal kurz über einen Starpower Manson hier irgendwo auf TH-cam unterhalten? Der wird gerade wieder auf Alibaba zu einem vernünftigen Preis angeboten.
+Juergen Haeussler Danke für die Links. Das ist wirklich günstig. Haben Sie mein Video vom Echtdampf Hallentreffen in Karlsruhe schon gesehen? ich kann den Besuch (leider erst wieder in einem Jahr) sehr empfehlen. th-cam.com/video/evl10GZHGxs/w-d-xo.html
That type of stirling engine is likely about 15% efficient, a flame that size produces about 80 Watts of heat energy, and a generator is about 90% efficient. So my guess is that it could produce a theoretical maximum of 11 Watts of electrical output. That would be less than an amp at 12 volts, but you could likely charge a cellphone with it.
putting in a thousands watts, and getting out a few watts to run at top speed? How about hooking up a generator, and a calibrated heat source, and demonstrating the efficiency?
a heat engine will not self-start. but, it would be simple to have an electromagnet mechanism move a drive wheel into place and cause the flywheel to start turning. btw, have you EVER heard of a SELF-starting engine. an engine is NOT a motor. googletranslate
+Latheman666 I cannot figure out from this constructions, is this type of Stirling Alpha or Beta? And does it have sealed pistons with gas inside or not?
I don't speak sign language!!! What is the idea of vertical bars, and why is it making that knocking sound? Is your displacer hitting the cylinder head?
@@woowooNeedsFaith okay. you did say 'vertical'. that is part of the vibration DAMPING system. it is Just MASS, going back and forth. energy is lost; damping Consumes energy. googletranslate
Hmm... you shouldn't loose energy just by changing direction of movement. That energy needs to be dissipated somehow, e.g. by making sound or producing heat. If it nothing but balancing masses going back and forth, it should simply transform energy back and forth between potential and kinetic energy - I guess.
That type of stirling engine is likely about 15% efficient, a flame that size produces about 80 Watts of heat energy, and a generator is about 90% efficient. So my guess is that it could produce a theoretical maximum of 11 Watts of electrical output. That would be less than an amp at 12 volts, but you could likely charge a cellphone with it.
Beautifully engineered, clever design, thanks for sharing. :)
Wow. Some people might think that software (programming) is impossible to understand, but to me (a programmer) I think that hardware is just insane, how someone can figure out all of the little joints and valves and weights to make something move like that in the physical world is beyond me...
@@watnoudan me too I looked some stuff up but it might be possible to have a engine halfway dipped in water and the other half out and the temp difference be great anuf to turn the engine
The Fall of the Euro...
2:30
lmao
brexinamics
better off without it ;)
Hard times for that euro, indeed
Your courteous annotations are part of the reason I subbed. I love these videos as well
Beautiful Stirling motor engine, excelent work. Congratulations.
Thanks!
what a well balanced machine :)
The soundwave of te "click"-sound when turning off the lighter, was enough to throw of the coin... Imagine now, how smooth this engine itself was...! Producing less vibrations, than the "click"-sound of a lighter...! ;-)
@2:00 vtech kicked in yo
Vtec* lol😂
VVTC
Ein wunderschöner Motor ... klasse Arbeit!!!
That's a beautiful piece of machinery.
thats fast! i planned on using stirling engines on some future projects and didnt expect such power
The run-down time says this tiny little engine is remarkably efficient for its size ❤
Thanks for the video of this beautiful machine in operation -- and the explanation at the end.
Hi Latheman666, perfect this engine and this magnificent balancing both horizontal and vertical. Excellent job. Congratulations On.
Greetings from Brazil
Armando Barlotti
Thanks!
"The fall of the Euro"
trubin06 Literally...
Everywhere I go, I see you
Also very good looking. Machinery as art.
That is a Really Great Stirling Engine! Wow!!
Beautiful, well balanced FLEA POWER
check out the Engine of a Ducati Supermono. it has a Pseudo Crank (Counter weight) too to make it run smooth which is not so commen for a 1 cylinder bike.
GReat art work! all surfaces are shining. smooth surface all.
Wow amazing I admire your machining skills :)
Its amazing how much kinetic energy can be derived from a friggin candle.
Woow bro. Some serious skill here.
Two cylinders really balance it out. It's beautiful.
Wrote too soon, only one cylinder the other side is the valves I think.
@@scotttaylor215 Nope, this is a dual cylinder style sterling engine, with a 'hot' and 'cold' cylinder. Both are required to run, as the engine operates on the principal that the gas will decrease in volume when moved to the cool cylinder and increase in volume when moved to the hot cylinder. There is another kind of sterling engine that has one cylinder, but it still works on the same principal as in this configuration, there is, in addition to the power piston, a large 'displacer' inside the cylinder that is like a piston, but lets the gas around the edges. It's duty is to displace the gas from one side or the other and force it to move between the hot and cold ends of the cylinder. However, in all cases, the sterling engine requires no valves whatsoever. In fact, the interior of the engine, whether one or two cylinder configuration, is one continuous volume that is sealed to the outside.
Would be cool to have one as a genny in an electric/hybrid car.
Drunken Hamster Supersize it and power a submarine!
That is just what Stirling engines are used for: saab.com/naval/Submarines-and-Warships/technologies/The-Stirling-Engine/
they are used on submarines in some countries to allow for extra quiet movement
2:35 Coming to a market near you. Soon to feature a class revolt option.
Very impressive, how would you calculate the mass of the counterweight used to balance the motor?
Ha, ha, the bench weight is the key!
WRONG
well machined! haha
This is very nice. I enjoyed your film on this, very much :-)
+Camst648 Thanks. BTW: Very nice cat.
Stirling engines could possibly be used in charge hybrid cars to drive the generator if the drive train is all electric. A longer start sequence wouldn't be an issue then.
A Stirling engine can reach 50% efficiency, a modern diesel about 40% and a petrol engine around 30-35%
Not to mention it could be driven with heat from the electrical engines and cooled by the passing air.
Minimum amount of maintenance too with low vibration and wear.
These are very cool but I am interested in them for their utilitarian value. Have you tested how much torque it can produce, hooked it up to a generator to se how many watts it can produce, or otherwise tried to see how much useful work of some kind it can do?
I have one, you could literally blow on the fly wheel and stop them, very little torque produced
Very nice engine, smooth running indeed. Do you still have the ebay link or the seller by any chance?
Csongor Varga Unfortunatly not. Sorry.
@@Latheman666 bullshiut
That is indeed super smooth! Well done :D
Interesting design works well.🎉
So many different types they are definitely making a comeback with the Chinese making a 300kw sterling engine.
Some large bore V4 versions are around 80kw.
1000˚ Red Hot Glowing STERLING ENGINE vs GAS ENGINE
Yeah. That would be fun.
do you think this motor set over a bonfire or partially included into the side of the rock ring would be enough to pump air back into the fire to create a hotter fire?
Would it not run even smoother if the large wheel was horizontal to act as a gyroscope?
Awesome machine! Any info on where you acquired this model from? I can't find it on ebay or anything and I'd love to have one like this.
I see it 2-3 times per year on ebay.de. My theory is that it is a training project that apprentices make.
Thanks! That would make a lot of sense, I know a German engineering student that told me they make motors as part of their coursework. I immediately found one for sale on ebay.de, now I will have to save some $$ for it
You can find many different kinds of Stirling engine models on Amazon. Here's the link: www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=stirling+engine
Hey Paul, I dont find it on ebay either, but I would be very interested in buying it, please could you possibly link me the offer? Would be really nice :)
You can find it on Amazon.com, along with many other kinds of Stirling engines.
What is the purpose of the extra (bottom two) linkages connected to the crank shaft? And what is it called?
Is it to balance the weight of the lobe in the verticle axis?
great work!!! very well engineered.
Would you like to share the plans for this engine please
He bought it
Heat directly converted to mechanical movement, using air...amazing design! Unfortunately the efficiency of Stirling engines is low but you could use nuclear heat this way to make an atomic jet, car, ship etc.
Actually for heat engines they are the most efficient, their most major problem however is power density.
To highlight this issue a Stirling engine that makes say 40 HP might need a cylinder the size of a 55 gallon drum to do it, while a much smaller and lighter IC engine you could entirely fit in a suitcase will easily use 2-3x (Diesel and Gasoline respectively) the fuel to make that same power.
Does it work with gears or is the static friction too much to overcome for the first cycle? I noticed you mentioned "if the belt breaks" it just goes until it cools off or destroys itself.
If you power this in reverse will it get very cold?
nope. it'll get warm at the end. this is because air heats up when it's compressed. this is why your tyres get warm when you pump them.
Yes it will get cold. If you supply external power to a Sterling engine, it acts as a heat pump, moving heat from one end to another. In fact, do a search for Sterling Cryocooler. Unfortunately, the Sterling engine isn't as efficient as a Rankine cooler for higher temperatures, but for -30 to -40 degrees Celsius, the Rankine coolers aren't effective since there are no refrigerants that boil at low a temperature. At that point, the Sterling engine is quite useful and a single stage cooler is capable of getting to about 73 K (able to liquefy nitrogen, oxygen, argon). You can get colder using a two stage system to get down to 20 K (hydrogen and neon), but there are other methods of getting that cold or colder more efficiently.
No, you can if you use a low temperature differential engine tho
your question lacked clarity. if (rotational) force/energy is put in at the Crankshaft, what was the hot side becomes colder. what was the cold side, gets warmer. the affect is just a novelty. this is not an energy efficient way to produce cooling. in part, because there is an Excessive amount of heat produced, Along with the cool. googletranslate
The power to size can be made just as good as IC engines if the operating temperature
and pressure is high and proper regeneration of the heat is used.
What is that small clicking sound? Nice video!
Very interesting for an off grid electric install.
would this work better if the heated metal was something like brass or would that spread too much heat?
+Jack Fergusen If all was made of brass it would conduct more heat to the cold part and thus waste it.
The best would be to make only the part that is over the flame from a good thermal conductor like brass and the connection between hot and cold part of the displacer from a bad conductor like stainless steel and then the cold part again from a good conductor.
+Latheman666
it should be possible to use some kind of ceramic as an insulator.
Jack Fergusen it woul be more efficient if it had insulation along most of it with a focused input for heat
No: the cold part needs to be able to radiate heat _away_, ie, not insulated.
WOW have you the construction plan?
Does anyone ever tried to get this engine to run with just a magniefying glass (or maybe more then one) and the sun ?
sir... thank you
Yes. There are solar stirling engines. Just google it ;)
The Sterling Engine only requires a difference in temperature between the chamber and the outside of the machine. You could power it on the top of your computer, though it wouldn't be as strong as one powered by a kerosene candle.
There are power-plants working with the concept of solar Sterling engines.
moekakke
im actually curious what if you use a internal heating system like a coil so to avoid the the metal from becomeing stained something to think about
Nice! It looks beautiful
Hi. Do you still have the link of the exact model on ebay. I could not find it and it is really stunning. Cheers
Such a high rpm for a stirling engine!👍
You can clearly observe second order harmonic vibrations left to right due to the fact that the connecting rod is not of infinite length and the piston has different values for acceleration and deceleration at both ends (top and bottom or left and right in this case). This effect cannot be counterbalanced that easily. Also, it is also in the vertical plane, but there it is not that important, as the base is rigid enough.
From what I've been able to figure for an engine to be perfectly balanced, one way would be to have opposing pistons that connect to the same point on the crankshaft and go in and out and fire at the same time. One piston would have split connecting rod that overlaps the other's, with exactly the same weight. The connecting rods would drive the crank 180 degrees from each other on opposite sides. All up and down and side to side motion should then exactly be opposed and balanced by the opposing overlapping piston con rod setup. I have a picture on my other computer that I drew.
Yeh.
+sirgallium I thought so as well, but in my head I imagine that a twisting force would be applied because the pistons are not inside eachother, they are offset by the flywheel, so when one goes down and the other up, you will get a twisting force acting with the flywheel as the center?
Probably pretty smooth, but not perfectly balanced
If you could focus a large TV lens on it....just don't focus too good or melt city...maybe even a somewhat cloudy day? Great job making it!
Now put it on 2x speed.
o_O
Specially at 0:50... That's some psychedelic stuff man
that happens when the recording speed gets pretty similar to the engines speed(or in this case half of the engine speed).
So the engine is probably doing around 15 rps (if this was recored at 30fps).
Now put your finger in there
it's called the flicker frequency and happens at multiples of 24 ... 24 frames a second being what your eyes and brain can process at one time ... this is why video's make still pictures seem to move ... after 36 frames you wont recognize a change to quality until approximately 72 frames a second .. it happens to be on a logarithmic scale.
0623kaboom the flicker frequency is just about how small the time between two stimulations can be so your eye cant differciat them, thats not same as something feeling smooth, you can have a smooth picture but your eyes will start to hurt over time if the frequency of what ever device your looking at is to low. Alot depends on the person, the age, how strong the change is and many other things. Also the processing speed of your brain can increase temporary, that's what happens when you can feel time "slowing down" in a dangerous situation. But unfortunately this has not much to do with the effect you can see in this video because the effect of something standing still, because it has the same frequency as the recording only happens to cameras not the human eye.
For the human eye fast moving stuff just becomes blurry.
That's really amazing can you tell me where I can buy one thank you from Tacoma Washington
What are the two brass connecting rods on either side of the flywheel underneath the main connecting rods for?
What clearance on disp.cyl?
On disp.rod? Seal? Rings on power piston?
I don't just want to see the engine run I want to know how you built it and how it differs from other engines of its kind
If you use something cold like ice for fuel, would it turn backward?
Hola como hace el intercambio de gases frios y calientes entre los dos pistones?
I'd say that that base and the engine body together weighs 50 to 100 times the weight of the moving parts.
Did you buy this on Ebay, if yes can you give link.
2:34 "The fall of the Euro"
Prophetic video from 2015. Danke Merkel!
What is the arm thing attached to the bottom of the flywheel used for. (terminology escapes me right now)
A counter balance to reduce vibrations.
Incorporate it into a rocket stove to pump hot water produced from the rocket stove. You could circulate hot water through a cement slab to heat or switch the system and cool the home all by using this engine! ; )
what is the ultimate potential energy in the fly wheel at full tilt
Hi.!! ! do you know what is the material that's make this ?
I've never seen a Stirling engine go that fast before.
I hope the joints and bearings were freshly oiled.
👍 😀 has a Stirling engine adapted to be used to generate electricity or in a car
great work! How were you able to prevent those black marks from that fire?
+thaGkillah It's stainless steel and I use a mixture of 90% ethanol and 10% water as fuel (no soot and flame does not get too hot)
but the thing is when a flame gets cold it is yellow or red and it is these flames that makes black stuff
so i think it's just because of the ethanol
Denatured alcohol
Just use very stainless steel so there are no stains
stainless isnt
If you took a 50 gallon drum, filled it about half full of pig droppings, ran a tube up to the place where you have the wick, I think you could have an engine run as long as you could get the pig to make your fuel. Might work with cow droppings too.
what material is used here in engine , did u machine it urself or had it machined
What is the weight and material of the base?
Please post where to buy the motor.
so how come they never put magnets on the fly wheels????????
nicely balanced
Ein herrlicher Motor. Den würde ich gerne in meinem Briefkasten finden...
Haben wir uns mal über einen Manson made in China unterhalten? Der auf Ebay 150 USD gekostet hätte?
+Latheman666 Danke für die prompte Antwort. Den beobachte ich schon. Aber der Anbieter zieht seine Angebote immer zurück, wenn er mit dem Preis nicht zufrieden ist. Vielleicht braucht er diesmal doch den Verkaufserlös...
Haben wir uns mal kurz über einen Starpower Manson hier irgendwo auf TH-cam unterhalten? Der wird gerade wieder auf Alibaba zu einem vernünftigen Preis angeboten.
+Juergen Haeussler Danke für die Links. Das ist wirklich günstig. Haben Sie mein Video vom Echtdampf Hallentreffen in Karlsruhe schon gesehen? ich kann den Besuch (leider erst wieder in einem Jahr) sehr empfehlen.
th-cam.com/video/evl10GZHGxs/w-d-xo.html
Hi,
Where could I buy exactly this model ?
Thanks
UN OPERA D'ARTE ❤
Impressive video, any idea how much power you could produce if you hooked it up to a generator?
That type of stirling engine is likely about 15% efficient, a flame that size produces about 80 Watts of heat energy, and a generator is about 90% efficient. So my guess is that it could produce a theoretical maximum of 11 Watts of electrical output. That would be less than an amp at 12 volts, but you could likely charge a cellphone with it.
well put together video!!!
Very nice! I thought the coin was fake at first ;)
Great job, congratulations!
Just do not understand the function of the lower levers.
Silas - Maringá/PR - Brazil
+Silas Marques Ferreira Ele explica no final que é apenas um contra peso que tem apenas movimento vertical.
putting in a thousands watts, and getting out a few watts to run at top speed? How about hooking up a generator, and a calibrated heat source, and demonstrating the efficiency?
is it possible that Stirling starts itself? or it demands a starter?
a heat engine will not self-start. but, it would be simple to have an electromagnet mechanism move a drive wheel into place and cause the flywheel to start turning. btw, have you EVER heard of a SELF-starting engine. an engine is NOT a motor. googletranslate
what is the minimum heat differential needed for this engine?
Could you make this a cold engine and run it off liquid air?
How much millimeter pistons and cylinders
How is the smaller cylinder connected to the larger one? Btw, nice engine!
+Aleksandar Stokic Thanks. The connection is in that part that looks just like a back plate to both cylinders.
+Latheman666 Very nice design solution!!
+Latheman666 I cannot figure out from this constructions, is this type of Stirling Alpha or Beta?
And does it have sealed pistons with gas inside or not?
I wish you would have hooked a meter up to it so we could have seen how much power it was generating.
I don't speak sign language!!!
What is the idea of vertical bars, and why is it making that knocking sound? Is your displacer hitting the cylinder head?
the 'bars' are the heatsink 'fins'. the source of the intermittent noise is unknown. googletranslate
I was not talking about the heatsink fins. I meant the bars at the right connected to the shaft (and to the frame).
@@woowooNeedsFaith okay. you did say 'vertical'. that is part of the vibration DAMPING system. it is Just MASS, going back and forth. energy is lost; damping Consumes energy. googletranslate
Hmm... you shouldn't loose energy just by changing direction of movement. That energy needs to be dissipated somehow, e.g. by making sound or producing heat. If it nothing but balancing masses going back and forth, it should simply transform energy back and forth between potential and kinetic energy - I guess.
@@woowooNeedsFaith JUST PLAIN WRONG. i have shared FACTS, not speculation. feel free let them soak in for a month or two. googletranslate
Can you help me? I want to do my final year project on Stirling engine.
How to buy this model and size sterling engine?
Looks powerful enough do you know The approximate watts
That type of stirling engine is likely about 15% efficient, a flame that size produces about 80 Watts of heat energy, and a generator is about 90% efficient. So my guess is that it could produce a theoretical maximum of 11 Watts of electrical output. That would be less than an amp at 12 volts, but you could likely charge a cellphone with it.
We're did you get the engine
Its simply amazing
Michael Hausmann Thanks!
So..... When the engine gets hot, it stops running?