Not sure if you ever came across the later videos but all of these issues of where to set it up have been addressed years ago along with updates and new mods on the gasifier. Gasifiers new home built in 2017. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE---OoCzRyvNs.html Gasifier now set up and protected from elements. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Kv73ggsEDWY.html
Ahhh ! I've been wondering what you've been up to ! Hey Mike, I'm impressed, your trio sounds good. " Riders of the Storm" is as good a cover as I've ever heard. Nice rendition.
We have been busy on this end trying to put this little trio together. Bill for some reason your comment didn't show up on the video and I'm sure that's where you probably posted it. Your comment however was in my notifications.
@@flash001USA Wishing you all good times and success. We had another family wedding to cater this past Saturday. 68 lbs of prime rib, boneless, 150 chicken thighs of 4 flavors, 30 lbs of sausages, everything " smoked" ( in my two large shop built smokers) and all the side dishes. My son Carl was the groom, amongst his other duties. Time for a rest. ! Hope al is well with you !
Thank you. I've always loved this song. I can remember when it first played on the radio. There's something to be said about a lot of this earlier music from that era.
Por gentileza verifique essa minha antena de cabo coaxial 75 ohms FV 0.82 para frequência de 27.415 MHz utilizando a transformação de impedância, descrições do projeto na aba COMUNIDADE do meu canal youtube.com/@estacaoradioatividadepx?si=vPglXcfyf8Cmnb0v
Olá amigo, sou aqui do Brasil e tenho utilizado essa antena de cabo coaxial 75 ohms vertical para os 27 MHz, A ANTENA DE POBRE como batizei por aqui utilizo o cabo coaxial 75 ohms FV 0.82, e nessa minha configuração ocorre a transformação de impedância para 50 ohms e swr 1.1 em grande parte do das frequência do CB, vou deixar o link pra você verificar na aba COMUNIDADE do meu canal tem as medidas e explicações do projeto, 73
Very cool. Tuning ring is an improved design if you ask me, can it be too close to the wire? I might attempt a series capacitor and extra whip over my 5/8 Maco V5000 copy I made the ringo from one piece of copper pipe.
Great info. More in those than I thought. I have a "President" version that I don't use much but I think it would be half decent if it had at least 3 or 4 x 104" groundplanes. I found some alloy rings that clamp to 30mm tube or many different sizes 40mm etc. I plan to tap in some M10 holes and screw in those stainless telescopic antennas as ground planes. They are quite strong and light. They can extend up to 5.6M anyway these rings if you get the ones that have the split can be quite chunky and a good basis for a ground plane system if you size them correctly. I would like to know more about those loading coils / tank coils out of phase. I am making my version of a Maco V5000. I made 2 rings because i coiled the 1st one clockwise but now I'm thinking to experiment and add two rings by sliding in the backwards one in upside down just above the main one. I made them in the same form as the ally one on a Maco V58 or 5000. Looks really cool in copper pipe. Teflon insulators and more stuff coming soon. I think that cap in the 2000 puts the top section out of phase causing it to act like a 2nd antenna in a stacked co phase array configuration. This should lower the radiation pattern. I can't get over the fact that there is no electrical connection other than that chunky capacitor in brass. That's impressive.
I know in the I-max write-up I stumbled across they said the coils being out of phase helped get rid of unnecessary peak and null points which gave the antenna a somewhat smoother and wider bandwidth. Yeah the inline series capacitor plays a few roles or at least that's what I read. It can be a 1/2 wave with a 1/4 wave stacked over it or it makes the top section appear electrically shorter but correcting the phase as you mentioned sounds reasonable too. Doesn't do any good if the antenna is cancelling out in places. Kind of defeats the purpose of the extra bit of antenna length. As to the series capacitor, I honestly don't know how that behaves over a 2 Mhz or 3 Mhz span. Only the shadow knows.
@neilgelinas9926 The gasifier that I built is under my shop ready to be used at a moment's notice should things get bad. This was a project that I took on out of curiosity that went beyond that and I'm glad that I took the time to figure it out. There are some people out there that uses kind of Technology along with solar and wind as a sole source of power. This is really a backup system for me should I need emergency power and didn't have access to any fuels.
@carldeanwebb5181 hey I'm just curious how long you had the antenna up before it failed? Are you in an area prone to bad storms or high winds? So far this antenna has held up for me and it's been up for 3 years and it has been through a couple of heavy storms that had high wind here where I'm located.
Hello flash, I followed your guide and built one but my challenge is how to hook this up on a diesel generator. Not sure how to do the calibrator part because my diesel engine uses injector.
Hi I'm just now seeing your question. I wouldn't know what to suggest to you on a diesel generator but the way you set it up on a gasoline engine the woodgas is taken in right at the air intake of the carburetor. To calibrate the fuel air mixture that is handled by a woodgas carburetor that you can make out of PVC pipe. Somewhere on my channel I show you how to construct the woodgas carburetor. Hope this helps.
Thank you for sharing!! A friend referred me to this video. I would appreciate the PDF if you are still offering it. I am unable to find the area to send you a private msg.
Love the emphasis on safety, and they very clear instructions! Thank you, my friend. By chance could this also be used to make a dunk tank for making a Damascus-style blade on a sword?
No because I have all of the charcoal and ash from my wood stove that I could ever need to use. I save the biochar which is really just charcoal as a great and a clean start-up fuel for the gasifier.
Wow, what a difference since the last update. You're going to be knee deep in veggies this year all because you spent the time building the soil. Let me ask you, did you ever test the soil to see what the ratios are and all the trace elements? That would be interesting, but the results show that you nailed it. Really looking good Mike. We are getting slammed with the heat. Seems like everything is just sitting and not taking off like yours yet. But then again our garden has only been planted for a couple of weeks. I'll have to try the Green Bean stir fry !
Flash, good to hear from you. I started raising my garden about eight years ago because my wife and I were struggling to plant, weed and harvest off of the ground. I made 4X10 boxes of Cedar and put them on pallets to raise them up waist high so that we no longer have to bend over. Sure has worked well for us. Glad to see yours doing so well.
@@flash001USA You have had me intrigued for several years with your videos of building your woodgasifier. I recently watched one where they were talking about gasifiers only being able to run for about 3 months before they burn up inside. From your experience, is this accurate? I am looking for more of a long term options and was hoping you could help.
@@ramondanderson6730 No that's not accurate but if you use thin mild steel for the hearth it won't hold up well but if you build your hearth in a cement mixture like I have done it will go for many seasons with no issues.
@@flash001USA That is great news, I was planning on using your design anyway. Have you done any updates or discoveries that you haven't shared on RU-vid?
@ramondanderson6730 I have ideas that I want to eventually try but I really have it changed much on the overall design on the gasifier. Right now it sits covered up with the tarp ready to use should things get ugly. The main reasoning for me building the gasifier was to learn about this technology but to also have a backup plan. There's some people out there that use these and rely on them as their main source of power or at least part of the power with solar or wind. For me it was more about the enjoyment of just putting it together and seeing it actually work.
Mike, This is the video of " contrast " all the way through. B&W, war and peace/tranquility, new life VS destruction, even the contrast between the neighbors garden and yours. You have it down pretty well, the garden looks lush and vibrant. Our kids came by last Sunday and helped us get the starter plants in the greenhouse transplanted into the 2024 garden. Hope it has a chance to make it through the growing season before the criminals push the button.
Bill I had full intentions of making the video just about the garden but with all of this garbage happening now when it's intentional I found myself not able to keep my opinions to myself. Welcome to the Brandon years sir.
@@flash001USA We are working hard getting to the point where we don't need outside "services". Guess you could say Iv'e got whiskey dripping off my beard and an awfully itchy finger with a mind of its own. Maybe it developed with age but I think its a response to the brandon years and self preservation. Looking forward to a good harvest !
Hello Flash, Greetings! I have a doubt - why the reduction zone is also not made with refractory cement?? Is it for a specific reason or any design constraints?
You could use refractory cement or even potters clay but if you were to make the reduction zone just out of these materials they will over time have the tendency to develop cracks. With a steel lining you just want to draw heat away from the steel which will give it a long life. I don't have the tools to work with stainless steel so the workaround to working with mild steel is to protect the mild steel. Think of putting water into a paper cup. If you light the top of the cup on fire it will burn down to the water line and go out. You could even boil water in a paper cup because the water protects the paper. It's the same concept here but you could use both refractory cement or even potters clay with this method. For that matter you could use pure sand with a tiny bit of standard cement mixed in it just to hold it's form. There are many roads that lead to a working prototype.
Sorry for the late reply. This is a very old video of a FEMA gasifier. I never ran a generator from this design. I wound up building a fully automated Imbert gasifier that will run generators with no problems. If you go through my older videos on my channel you will find a handful of updated step by step videos that show how to build the newer design that produces safe clean gas for small engines.
@@flash001USA Thanks for the reply. I just thought because the antenna is above my garage which has a large metal roof the roof could act as the ground plane
@GMandMoparRule Now if it's going to be above a steel roof garage it may work to some extent would have to be very low to the steel roof itself to get to interaction for the antenna to behave correctly. Another issue is the antenna will be directional because the lobe will be off to one side if the antenna is mounted up to the edge of the roof. The only other work around to keep it Omni directional would be to mount it somewhere centered on the roof. If not it will behave like a set of semi directional vertical beams to some extent favoring the signal depending were the antenna is in relation to the steel roof due to the lobe being offset.
@@flash001USA it will be attached to the back of the garage but there is also 2 other large buildings with metasl roofs attached to the back of the garage so the antenna is basicially in the middle of lots of metal roofs
@@DaveCarpenter2112 It may be easier to go with a different antenna so you don't have to modify anything. Here is a link to a 5/8 wave Silver Rod antenna and a lot of people speak highly about these antennas. You can get them on Ebay out of Europe and I have a friend that has one and he likes it. You could even go with a 5/8 wave fiberglass antenna and get one locally but here is the link. Honestly I would rather have an aluminum antenna over a fiberglass antenna. www.ebay.com/itm/320937624705
The only problems I had with it was green antenna pice fell off but it still worked just fine . The adjustment screw in the back was plastic so mine broke almost instantly but gladly irs on the right sensitivity . My antenna piece under rhe green sleve recently broke so I took a screw from the base amd used it to reconnect rhe wire . Still works . Still can't be killed no matter what happens to it .
Says a lot considering rem pods at rhe time were like 200 and rhe cheap ones were almost always fake and this was right in line with one of the cheap ones but rhe description on the ebay listing had me hooked i had to give it a try and it was one of rhe best decisions I could have made .
@@VoidOg999 I actually made the antennas removable which stopped the issue of the antennas getting broken because you could either repair or replace the antenna. You mentioned that the sensitivity adjustment broke? Was this a black adjustment? That too was upgraded to a more robust part. When I first started building these it was a learning process where I was making improvements from people's feedback once they were in the field using them. The only reason I quit making them was because of the new tax laws under Biden which made building them too expensive and I couldn't justify charging any more than I was on them. I still build a few here and there for a few customers but it's on a 1 to 1 basis. If the tax laws ever go back to being fair again I may reconsider going back to building them again. If you ever need a repair on your rempod, just reach out to me at flash001@rocketmail and I'll work with you getting it repaired for a fair price. Take care and thank you for your feedback. Mike...
