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[@VictoryGasworks]

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[@lesthompson5907]

Ok, Ben, it's time for me to open up this subject, to you. & others I get it & your gas generator is well-built. Ok first let me tell you my story I'm les thompson. Born in 1952. Off-grid first we had an Old truck Gas generator That once ran on a truck. In 1962 we in England suffered the worst winter ever. lasted so long that it was May before the snow went. So it was then I discovered the pelage of damp wood gas. we never managed to pull the gas up to the critical velocity you refer to, in this video. so I decided to visit my gas works. in the UK we made our own gas from coal. In the conversation, I told him about my wood gas generator & asked if he could give me some advice. he wondered what type of Gas generator it was I said a down draft type. swiss modal or Dutch. he replied I replied swiss, have you found that side pocket & filled it with charcoal yet. No should I? IT was at this point he informed me I got wet smock because I had not filled the tub with charcoal, you must remove the top of the tube & fill it with charcoal from your gas generator as you refill it with wood & put the dry un charcoal wood at the bottom. then you wet wood. well isn't it better dry I asked. look wet or dry the hydrogen is in the water wood. As it goes through its first Bern it leaves the bottom as wet smock they all do. some have cyclones on the side but most have charcoal colom that are lit charcoal in their bottom, It is this part of the gas generator that Is so often forgotten it' allows the wet smock to remove the oxygen up the charcoal colom & into the filter system. It is this that makes the wood gas generator work so well. Most plants had this part removed after the war To deter the induction of them permanently being an option. I went home & there it was under a flange on the side of the main vessel. When I opened it up I discovered the back was rotted out' So I experimented & soon arrived at a slosh. I installed a charcoal colom secretly & fed that gas to my engine & never looked back. I also discovered adding steam into the colom will produce good gas.. to run an engine. I did this in 1962. I suffer from diplexer So I did not speak of it until now I have mentioned it to builders, but not mainly listed. but some have discovered it coming from a different direction it was used in filing the early balloons, not your design as just the right place to fit a charcoal colon. w the let is for the filter damp gas into the colom & dry gas into the filter colom.

[@brandonr4452]

great video. I will have to watch the whole series. I have just recently started trying to design tin can wood burners as a hobby (and hoping to make some videos out of them). I have seen the sea of videos of, what I consider, crappy designs. I want something that blows that junk out of the water but still is made out of tin cans (related to the topic of up-cycling). It seems to me that almost all of the "rocket stoves" or "gasifier stoves" on the internet are not actually burning efficiently, or they are not controllable. So my first design incorporates adjustable initial air inlet and adjustable gas/second burn air inlet. I just did my first test run yesterday. I think I was not getting enough oxygen for the gas/second burn. The main problem I have is that my goal is to make an efficient burner that runs off of chopped up sticks and stuff. I totally ran into to issue of not starting with charcoal, like you talked about. It took quite a while for the (somewhat green) wood I put in to start to turn to charcoal before I was able to light the gas/smoke. I also have experienced the confusion caused by bad information on the internet regarding gasifier burners. There's tons of blog posts and videos. It's hard for an inexperienced person to filter out the misinformation.

[@Wood-For-Power1]

Ha! Ha! This is excellent, just pure excellent BenP. Anyone of us actually DOing real never made less than 3-4 of these! Hope folks listen to this REAL well and avoid at least down to only two mistakes. Mine: info overloading;, too primitive too cheap, weak blower/suction; and my last not on your list using live NET feeds as base information sources. These guys are edge finding experimentors. Three books only until useable gas made and engine ran: Your new "Wood Gasifier Builders Bible" and the "Electronic Carburetor" books Pegasas Gasifier "Generator Gas: Another Mobile Solution . . . ." the second two as public searchable down loads now. Pay for: WayneK's Drive On Wood and VesaK Vehicle Gasification as a deeper pocket investments. Great, great wisdoms you are making accessible here BenP Hats off with much respect. Washington State Steve Unruh

[@benpeterson1818]

I'm sure I have made just about all of these. An expert is someone who has failed in every imaginable way possible. The big thing I am seeing now is that guys aren't getting enough run time to get a valid judgement on gas quality. The assumption that all gas is good gas doesn't hold up when you tar up your valves. But if your filter is cold enough it might take 10-20 hours to get there. And guys aren't getting there and then other guys are doing what they are doing. I would like to prevent them from bent pushrod tubes. I remember sitting at hempfest without the ability to run the engine because my "free & open plan" had tarred up my engine so fiercely.

[@subliminal_donkey]

@@benpeterson1818 Not sure if you are still responding to these videos but does your wood gasifier design filter all the tar from the gas? What about particularly tarry woods like pine/spruce etc.? Also are you gonna make a new book on the new design I see you made in newer videos?

[@funnypranker34]

And also, you said that trying to start the gasified on wood is wrong because it takes a while and creates plumes of smoke? My way to start it on wood is to circulate the exhaust back into the intake because the smoke has some heat stored so your reusing the wasted heat and the smoke is flammable too. It's basically a exhaust gas recirculation system. It cleans up the exhaust gas while decreasing warmup time. If you want I'll draw up a picture and send it to you.

[@funnypranker34]

Hey Dan, a long time ago I watched a mountain men episode and they used a old air condition pump to move the gas to the engine.

[@samualmewton6126]

Im in Australia metalworker and i own a 351 carby 1982 ford f250, i have been looking into other woodgasifier plans and was wondering if your plans would be suitable for my truck for high way use ... its really flat and roads are straight here where im at.

[@benpeterson1818]

I replied via email, but just for those stopping by Drive on Wood has lots of resources on that angle. Vesa Mikkonnen has a great book too. My advice is to start with small engines though. When you have that down it's easy to scale up. If you start big and then try to go small you may run into problems because things have to be more precise. Flow and heat are less. Nozzle diameters are less too.

[@felderup]

in addition to peter's egr, how about running a blower in parallel and using suction to control how much fuel is directed to temporary storage, or recirculated?

[@RedDogForge]

what are you doing with that tig? im new to tig and didnt see filler rod? are you spot welding with it?

[@brandonr4452]

"spot welding" as far as I know refers to the process of clamping two pieces of sheet metal together between electrode ends and basically hitting it with lightning so that the small amount of electrical resistance in the metal causes a rise in temperature so great that the two pieces of sheet metal partially melt and fuse together. To me it looks like he is "tacking" or "tack welding" those pieces together. The filler rod in some welder models is run through the hose that the shielding gas is going through (probably still isolated from each other, but IDK).

[@accelwell7018]

hey champ are you going to weld something here? you can download the FEMA drawings for free n improve on this if you want to.

[@thewindithowls944]

What do you think of mr tesalonians truck?

[@mick62569]

I try not to multitask it can be a safety issue. Just because you are skilled your eyes still need protection. Thought I would make a smart ass comment