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Old 09-12-2024, 04:06 AM   #491 (permalink)
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Oh as soon as you use the heat from a ICE the efficiency goes WAY-WAY up!
And they tend to reject a lot of heat... Maybe running a serpentine around the exhaust to recover heat, in a way similar to how those older absorption fridges required an open flame to work, would also be useful and increase the overall efficiency of the co-generation setup. Had it not been for safety issues, that would be a good way to have air conditioning for nearly free in a car.

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Old 09-13-2024, 04:31 PM   #492 (permalink)
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Thanks again for the info.

KW I'm not sure? Right now I'm running two 1500watt heaters that will sustain working temps when it's 35*F outside.

I'm thinking about running my transmission also that would be coupled to generator. Cranks rpm will be between 2200rpm and 3200rpm.
With a std gearbox, rpms don't matter:
One of the gears is likely to get your engine and generator at the optimal or desired rpm's for them both.

I'm thinking a rolled or similary scrapped EV with Vehicle to Grid (V2G) capability gives you a nice efficient generator (in regen mode) and a nice big battery that you can easily just 'plug in'

"...Several vehicle manufacturers support V2G in some electric cars, including models from Ford, Hyundai, Kia, Mitsubishi, Nissan, and Volkswagen..."
https://mybroadband.co.za/news/motor...-the-grid.html

What are you thinking in terms of using the engine's waste heat at home?
Plumbing into the cooling system's heat is easy enough.
For exhaust heat; someone here had a bunch of EGR coolers they'd saved from somewhere for sale...
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Old 09-15-2024, 01:50 AM   #493 (permalink)
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"...Several vehicle manufacturers support V2G in some electric cars, including models from Ford, Hyundai, Kia, Mitsubishi, Nissan, and Volkswagen..."
Not sure if it applies to any BEV, but I have watched some videos of people plugging some home appliance on the charging inlet of an EV with an adaptor plug.
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If they are plugging the appliance into the charge port, there is either gonna be some pricey bidirectional electronics between the battery and the appliance or it is a DC capable appliance. Some charging methods allow you to jump a traction pack or use it for DC power with the correct adapter. Otoh, there are schemes that have an adapter like the ford lightning, but it isn't the charge port but might be in the same covered area.
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If they are plugging the appliance into the charge port, there is either gonna be some pricey bidirectional electronics between the battery and the appliance or it is a DC capable appliance.
I don't know how it worked, but the appliances operated on AC.
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I don't know how it worked, but the appliances operated on AC.
You get V2H vehicles where if/when your house is disconnected from the grid; you just carry on like normal when the cars plugged in and supplying power into the whole house's mains.
ie: A good inverter changes the DC into AC of the correct voltage AND gives that AC a nice sine wave rather than a cheap 'square' wave AC.

V2G
is the same thing
BUT
you need 3 AC outputs 120 degrees out of phase with each other to make 3 phase power.
THEN
you need to sense when the grid AC's phase 1 say, is at say the very top of it's sine wave and output your AC so that it's exactly the same and thus IN PHASE with the grid.
If it isn't; you get large sparks, electrical fires, chaos and pandemonium!

V2H (with its large battery pack) may be fine for pgfpro.
It all depends on his use vs output and what the local state of affairs/chaos is when it comes to selling power back to the grid.
I have a feeling he will be producing a good bit more power than he can use though, so V2G... or a discreet deal with his neighbours!

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Sometimes I lurk about going off-the-grid whenever I get the chance to move from the apartment to a house.

Maybe pgfpro could try custom-building a single-cylinder engine based on the 4G63, in a similar way to how GM made the 4-cyl 153 engine based on the 6-cyl, or how Ford made the HSC engine based on the Thriftpower Six...
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Just wanted to give a big thanks to this forum.

Got a new PB 72mpg on the Talon this year and learned a ton from these last three mpg tests.

1) New mpg injectors that I modified, and flow tested pay off tons.
2) Waste-Solvent plays a major key to atomization due to its RVP.
3) Dialed these last set of pistons in that have a lower static compression than the last three sets. Now I know what the engine wants at 1psi worth of boost to get the ultimate effective compression and more importantly the correct cylinder pressure at the correct crank angle.
4) The adjustment on the Nitrous system to be able to control each cylinder's flow individually paid off. In max lean-burn the nitrous helps a lot to speed up flame speed. The pre-chamber helps with flame speed at max lean-burn but still can only increase flame speed so much.

So now it's time to pull the engine out and trans plant it into the Camaro.
Then I'm going to sell the Talon without the engine so I can get more focused on the Camaro.
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Just wanted to give a big thanks to this forum.

Got a new PB 72mpg on the Talon this year and learned a ton from these last three mpg tests.

1) New mpg injectors that I modified, and flow tested pay off tons.
2) Waste-Solvent plays a major key to atomization due to its RVP.
3) Dialed these last set of pistons in that have a lower static compression than the last three sets. Now I know what the engine wants at 1psi worth of boost to get the ultimate effective compression and more importantly the correct cylinder pressure at the correct crank angle.
4) The adjustment on the Nitrous system to be able to control each cylinder's flow individually paid off. In max lean-burn the nitrous helps a lot to speed up flame speed. The pre-chamber helps with flame speed at max lean-burn but still can only increase flame speed so much.

So now it's time to pull the engine out and trans plant it into the Camaro.
Then I'm going to sell the Talon without the engine so I can get more focused on the Camaro.

Details! We need details!
Injectors modified how? Just for a start!
Pistons? Just lower compression to give more volume at TDC?

You might try a HHO cell, NOT for economy, but to increase flame speed and free you of
'Nitrous range anxiety' and cost..?

I'm glad the info on Acetone increasing atomization/vaporization? was handy.

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Didn't you have another engine that you were going to assemble and fit to the Camaro, while keeping the Talon? Are you going to daily-drive the Camaro?

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