STEAM ENGINE FROM AN AIR COMPRESSOR Solar Engine for Future Tests
This is the engine that was converted from an old special tilt piston air compressor. This is the exact same principal from a certain type of “Air Hogs” plane engine. In the opener the engine was running at 35-50 psi and the second start was around 75-80 psi. Top RPMS so far is 1700 at 110 PSI. The timing still needs some work. Solenoid Valves with a Reed Switch and a Magnet are great ways of testing air/steam engines to perfect the timing. A slide valve will eventually be needed as the solenoid valve is rated at 100000 – 1000000 cycles. This engine would wear it out in a day. The flywheel is wafer board (simple easy but not balanced or perfected). Not shown, top voltage from a permanent magnet motor (tread mill) 21 volts, top load 75 watts. The belt started slipping and the timing was hard to get back to perfect for the load. This engine will run 4 minutes on a full 10 gallon tank of air. The last minute is slow around 500 rpms to 50 rpms.
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By Linuxhax, August 27, 2009 @ 4:31 pm
Lol, why would it be a pun?
By numberonesurvivor75, August 28, 2009 @ 7:25 pm
It’d be a pun because usually the phrase is “sole purpose”, meaning the only purpose. You used “soul” purpose, suggesting a spiritual thing in a phrase that usually goes with the only purpose.
By IFAI091, September 7, 2009 @ 3:24 pm
amazing…
can you implementation to produce electricity at home around 2 kw….which is cheap cost..
thank’s
By manikanta15, September 10, 2009 @ 5:01 pm
thanks a lot u helped me in my project
By disndat11, September 13, 2009 @ 7:13 pm
Probably not. To generate 2KW you need about 6 Horse power. And this motor is probably around 1/4 HP, if that much.
By zzytrewq, September 14, 2009 @ 9:29 am
Correct. Compressing air is very inefficient and is possibly the worst way to harness energy.
By c825, September 20, 2009 @ 10:37 pm
thx ….. this is a good vid
By AlbinoChingChing, September 24, 2009 @ 9:04 pm
why would u choose to put a message rite over the rpm gauge
By GREENPOWERSCIENCE, September 27, 2009 @ 1:22 pm
??? Where
By AlbinoChingChing, September 27, 2009 @ 3:57 pm
it had some radom message over rite over the rpm readings
By josephdupont, October 23, 2009 @ 6:07 am
us solar energy to heat up the air and get more output.
By macfanofgi, December 16, 2009 @ 10:39 pm
An interesting concept indeed! But is it powerful enough to have a practical use? If so, this has potential!
By wheelnutt, December 28, 2009 @ 8:53 pm
How would you do the lube system on this type of engine on steam?
Great machine.
By TheTeslaJet, January 16, 2010 @ 10:43 pm
@zzytrewq
burning wood and or using the sun boils my water to 120psi so I think pointing out compressor power as a issue misses the point it could be representing free steam. Open your head to more than being critical of others. Now what have you posted of any interest? chump.
By TheCuged, January 23, 2010 @ 4:11 pm
You must be joking?
By MrJetjoe, January 25, 2010 @ 1:48 am
instad of a piston motor try a spinning disk and flywheel depending on the aircompresure try diffrent size outlet holes and spinning disk sizes. don’t let all the negitive people get you down. you can make a lot of power this way.I know
By zzytrewq, January 31, 2010 @ 3:43 pm
@TheTeslaJet -I have posted lots of factual arguments, whereas you shit all over your key board and hope for the best.
By zzytrewq, February 1, 2010 @ 3:19 am
@TheTeslaJet – Here is the comment you recently removed: “You shit on peopel [sic] the true matk [sic] of a bih [sic] mouth coward and child”
I actually shit all over people who are ignorant of the facts in the faint hope they may learn something.
My original comment was about compressing air being an in-efficient way to use energy. It is called “an opinion”. Why you find that perfectly valid comment hard to grasp or accept I’ll never know.
Get over it.
By josephdupont, February 8, 2010 @ 5:05 am
Pneumatic engines have to be able to use very hot air to get any range. the air can be heated with solar.. Steam posses a lot of lubercation issues..how hot of intake air orsteam could this unit take. mount it on a bicycle with some tanks on a trailer.
By Terryblount, February 28, 2010 @ 4:30 am
The AVERAGE cost of a steam engine is $500 per HP PLUS shipping cost of at lease $100 more per HP. So if you take a FREE motor from a junkyard and get 2 hp out of it from buring wood you can easily power an automotive alternator.
While that doesn’t sound spectacular, if the ecomomy gets so bad that there are blackouts … well just remember, in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is KING.
By Terryblount, February 28, 2010 @ 4:38 am
I don’t know why this guy doesn’t try connecting the spark plug wire directly to the air switch on these small motors and just do away with the magnets and complicated wiring. After all, doesn’t the spark plug normally fire TDC … exactly when you would need the puff of air to enter the piston? And would running an air compressor backwards even need the air supply chopped? Anyone follow?
By krawlr, March 2, 2010 @ 2:22 pm
@Terryblount An ignition coil doesn’t have enough current to pull a solenoid, the primary side of the ignition might handle it.
A compressor uses check valves instead if timed valves like an engine. You will not have the air turning on/off at the needed times.
By Terryblount, March 3, 2010 @ 12:37 am
haha… i once grabbed a spark plug wire and POW… ZAP… it’s got bite!
By davetileguy, March 3, 2010 @ 2:26 pm
try adding 4 dilithium cyristals in series along with boy scout tears for some cold fusion.does it have stainless exaust valves?
By 7777dmith7777, March 19, 2010 @ 1:25 am
Absolutely, The voltage off of the coil is not right for the solenoid valve but you could just use the signal directly off of the magneto and run it to a simple relay switch to the solenoid valve. much more simple.