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Thats a pretty awesome feat, successfully building a swashplate pump and having such a smooth output. Nice work!

I worked at a place too cheap to spring for a proper paint booth. I took a cardboard box, added baffles and it worked like charm. Used it for months. I've done the same at home for small jobs. Add a box fan with a merv 13 furnace filter and you're all set.

I feel like those coils should be hydrotested regularly. It takes such a short time to hydrotest something, especially a critical part thats exposed to corrosion.

Do you happen to have the motors wattage consumption to work out efficiency? Do you think you have enough flow to gently test the boiler and give that turbine a wet run? Forgive my porridge memory, have you built the blower to couple to the turbine? Still watching with great interest.

That's fantastic that wood pellets work so well with your fire box geometry. In the long ago past I built a semi successful forge that used pellets the way you did. It degassed them rendering them into chaocoal nodules which I used to heat steel. I unfortunately gave up on it because my grate...

Those are the kind I was thinking of. Good luck to him. Those pellets seem like an under utilized resource. I successfully ran them in a mini coupoula furnace with reasonable success. Building a fire box to run on them would be interesting.

I find the mechanical relays for the stone only last a few years as is. Probably using boards from the early 2000's with little or no updating. It would clash lol. Right now it's a beautiful mechanical marvel. With a MAN type G it will be a bit more inplace as those are increasingly less...

It drives me nuts the modern ovens are not PID. I built a massive aqarium to PID but the biology self regulates so that went out the window. A fire box with blower controls, feed regulator and a electronic ignition would be a fun arduino project, but I personally don't have any boiler...

Has anyone tried making a boiler with a fire box for wood pellets?

Cheap inverters basically do the same, out putting a square ac wave. They just use solid state stuff vs tubes and a relay More expensive units produce sine waves More more expensive units produce a clean sine wave. This is especially important when picking a UPS to clean up the power for a...

Or how resistive loads vs inductive loads derate AC switches. I have some controllers that will handle 15amp resistive but only 3 inductive.

Teacher had it backwards lol

I think his umbridge was with your use of " rectifier " when you obviously meant "inverter"

Lol rectifer vs inverter you pedant!

I have a properly sized generator and auto transfer switch. What I *want* is a loud steam huffing boiler and engine that can barely run my ice box.

Actually... I am getting silly. I was going to go Into figuring out a way to precisely figure out the loss but you can measure that with a thermometer and a cooler and evaluating how quickly the pump changes the tempurature of a small body of water, or measuring it's unloaded amp draw at a given...

Let me get back to you. I have some ideas.

I suggested it, murder was confirmed. "But with a wood pellet feed, an ECU and a hotplug igniter it would be pretty much automatic" *Murder re-confirmed* But hey on the way home I found an unused 100cc two stroke motor kit for adding petrol engines to pedal bikes, so I have something new to...

I have a 20kw natural gas unit that I would swap in a heart beat for a steam engine lol. My wife would probably murder me but damn a steam powered back up would be amazing after you threw a couple arduino at it to at least make it have an ECU.

Oh! Thank you, that makes sense. Very clever.