Member BiggKidd
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Good post OP! Nothing the idiots in charge do anymore surprises me. I have no doubt whatsoever that they would be willing to poison the land to control the people. They’ve already poisoned 60%+ of the population and are currently destroying the food supply and distribution networks.
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Made some decent progress today. Finally got the last piece of the stove itself made. Have to finish welding it on, create the exhaust and install the three secondary air intakes. Then I can start fitting it in the outer case or mass box. There’s still a lot to do even after I get the case around it…
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A fellow on another site wanted pics of the carnage, so I’ll post it here too.
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OH CHIT ! My daughter and I fouled up bigtime. I kept bugging her to clean up all her wrappers off the table so she grabbed the bag my high dollar modules were in and filled it full of trash. I took it and burned it not realizing until after the fact. So now I have toasted modules and am going to have to wait to replace them. This puts a huge crimp in my plans! Needless to say they did not withstand a trip through the burn barrel! I found what was left of them….
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Alright I think I can see the end of the stove build itself slowly crawling in sight. Once I finish it then I start building the outer case or box whatever you want to call it where all the mass gets held. I can’t wait to see how much heat this thing can pull out of the fire before the gasses reach the chimney or how much heat it can hold for how long. I just hope to heck I haven’t been wrong in my thinking. In all my searching I can’t find where anyone has built anything like this design, maybe because it’s so labor intensive or maybe just because it’s stupid and won’t work! Be my luck. lol
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Pretty much the same way I made my lifter for the module plate. I took the center (copper & wax plug) completely out of the body and pressed it in a 3/4 copper pipe. Which I am going to fit in my plate all the modules will be mounted on.
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Considering I haven’t even tested the others yet I just did a dumb thing and ordered 20 more of these. https://www.ebay.com/itm/325443696959
I “think” they should perform better than the generic Tec1-12706. Hope I’m not wrong, but I’ve always had exceptional service from Kyocera products.
I decided to hold off on the high temp insulation for now after finding out it only has an insulation rating of R5. I’m more worried about the seller running out of those high end modules than I am about getting insulation inside the box. lol Then after I ordered I found out he has a few hundred more. Hopefully by next month I’ll have these up and running and know if I want to try and get more or not…
I’m shooting for 300 watts peak power. If and I know that’s a big if this thing works like I want it to then it should give us the ability to live a lot more normal life power wise and take the constant worry of do we have enough power off my mind. It will be especially nice if it actually will power through the night being burned only once in the evenings.
Looks like I might get to work on this project for an hour or so this afternoon if the wind slows down a little and the temperature holds decent.
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When the sun is coming directly in the CLEAN window and the panel is at the correct tilt it should make somewhere close to 100% of it’s rated output, maybe. But that’s not when you make most of your power believe it or not. First the sun is only directly straight on with a panel for minutes of a day. Taking that in to account there is a window of time that’s close enough to straight on that lasts two – three hours for full output assuming conditions are perfect. Where I live we get on average 3.5 solar hours a day. I think that means fixed panels can generate 80% or above their rated output for a daily average of 3.5 hours. I think that average is taken over a years time so some days will have say 2 solar hours in winter and maybe 5 in summer. That’s assuming the sun shines every single day which it does not, here we average 180ish days of sunshine.
Not saying what you want to do is impossible but it’s going to have to have a lot more than the normal amount of just about everything except inverters to work on account of the conditions you want to install it in.
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Honestly after living with solar power for 15 years you have a lot of potential problems with VERY little reward possible in the real world. Your system starts off far to handicapped and only gets worse from there. I hate to be a naysayer but that’s all I see is a great big problem waiting to happen.
Lets start off with the fact you want to help. Well it’d be a dang shame for some of those you’re helping to have gasses, fires and in general unsafe conditions. So car batteries are OUT you NEED AGM type batteries at the very least. Next putting solar panels in windows is going to limit their potential by 70% or so I would think, probably more. That’s just the tip of the iceberg. You’d be a lot better off to provide one of these “solar” generator kits for each case. -
You wouldn’t have any trouble at all boiling a very large canner on top of a rocket stove as long as it’s properly sized and built. I saw the metal of the one we heated water with for 8 years turn nearly white hot more than once. It blew through dull red, red, bright cherry and orange then slower traveled through yellow to almost white the next thing after white is liquid steel! Have to think this was about 1/8th thick sheet steel from an old oil tank. Not exactly high quality or thick.
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You won’t have any trouble when you actually go to do it. Solar is pretty much plug and play these days. But even when you have to piece your system together like mine it’s still not hard mostly simple wiring.
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It’s in the thermoelectric generator thread in off grid but I’m not doing pictures yet, so not missing much if anything. lol I am making progress when I can. Today I had other things like firewood to do and managed to break the box blade on the tractor somehow while doing that………….
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If you’re not in a huge hurry you might want to wait a bit. I’m currently working on another stove design that might be better, I’ll have an answer in another week or so.
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Just remember rocket stoves burn a whole lot hotter than a regular fire does.
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Nice!