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Jared43758
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OWF Brand: Heatmaster
OWF Model: C250
Electricity
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May 15, 2016, 06:33:48 AM »
Has anyone ever come up with a idea to use your owb to produce electricity. Even if it was only enuff to power its self, blower, pump.
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Stihl MS290
Stihl MS660 Magnum
Husky 21 ton splitter
Southeast Ohio
slimjim
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OWF Brand: Wood Doctor / HeatMaster
OWF Model: 14,000. / G 200 and G 400
Southern Maine
Re: Electricity
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May 15, 2016, 06:53:01 AM »
I ran last years show G 200 with my 3500 watt Brigs on the gasses for a very brief time but the timing needed to be adjusted and wasn't, the result was a broken crankshaft!
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Wood boiler sales, service and installation for the Northeastern USA.
Jared43758
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OWF Model: C250
Re: Electricity
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May 15, 2016, 09:04:46 AM »
I wasn't really thinking something that used a engine because of the low life high maintence. I was thinking of something that used the heat to create electricity, like how solar makes electricity or wind turbines do. Not sure if something exsisted. If it doesn't it should
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Stihl MS290
Stihl MS660 Magnum
Husky 21 ton splitter
Southeast Ohio
slimjim
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OWF Brand: Wood Doctor / HeatMaster
OWF Model: 14,000. / G 200 and G 400
Southern Maine
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May 15, 2016, 09:21:52 AM »
There are units out there that use heat for electricity but they are very expensive with a never ending payback and low output.
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Wood boiler sales, service and installation for the Northeastern USA.
mlappin
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OWF Brand: homebuilt, now HeatmasterSS
OWF Model: Martin Steel Works Gen 1 then, now a G200.
North Liberty, Indiana
Re: Electricity
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May 15, 2016, 09:47:50 AM »
I can’t find it know, but a european company makes a unit that fits in the exhaust stack, works as the same principle as a stirling engine except uses helium if I remember correctly, very expensive and only produced at most 1kw.
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Stihl 023
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Stihl 460
Sachs Dolmar 112 and 120
Homemade skid steer mounted splitter, 30" throat, 5" cylinder
Wood-Eze model 8100 firewood processor
HeatmasterSS dealer for Northern Indiana
ben
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Re: Electricity
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May 16, 2016, 09:56:08 AM »
You could use peltier junctions. Especially if you used it in the winter, because they work best with a large temperature differential. That's what's in those little stove top fans that run off the heat of the stove. Hardly make any power though.
Ben
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Re: Electricity
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January 17, 2017, 11:05:29 AM »
http://www.stirlingengineforum.com/viewforum.php?f=1&sid=32a455c62131997ba8225040a0ebd405
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Stihl 023
Stihl 362
Stihl 460
Sachs Dolmar 112 and 120
Homemade skid steer mounted splitter, 30" throat, 5" cylinder
Wood-Eze model 8100 firewood processor
HeatmasterSS dealer for Northern Indiana
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