how do i upload a video of it
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Upload to YouTube and just drop a link in a message.
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Yes Josh. Put the link on its own line by itself: Copy and paste. like this
Because of the new Google Greed YouTube advertising policy, I had to delete all of the extra information on the address before the https and the ) on the endā¦ to get it to display and play properly.
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Set up a you tube account josh. At the top right there will be a thing that says create. you will have to pull up the video you made and you-tube will tell you what to do. Answer some questions and at least for me, wait about ten minutes for every minute of upload. I am one of the least techno people still breathing. If I can do it anyone can.
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ok working on it now
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And the blow up lol
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Josh, No harm done, I hope!!
Nice spark show! 
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Interest video, what happened, and did it go well with the wife?
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No one was hut Iām thinking my flair motor was way to much and overheated the system and made it backfire not sure
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Looked like a hopper fart to me! Is your lid spring loaded?
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Yes very glad no one got burned .
A hopper puff usually happens when air and gas gets mixed in the hopper and usually will spit out some smoke and condensation .
The pop in the video seem to be down steam of the char bed .
I think Josh is right . Oxygen getting past the grate from over draft.
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Hi Josh , can you please tell me what fuel you were running when you had your blowback , was it 100% charcoal or a mix of wood and charcoal ? or what .
I only run charcoal units and to be honest i have never had a blow back more than a few sparks coming out of the air intake nozzle over the years of running in all kinds of conditions , and looking at how gently your flare is coming out i donāt think your fan was over pulling i think its more likely a air leak in the tank maybe around your door area .
When it did back fire what were you doing down by the flare tube were you starting to light it or putting out the flare ?
Dave
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Just as a side note I have actually had one backfire on charcoal in my Mazda. I gave it the full beans a little too fast and I heard a THUNK sound. I use a locking lid so I hope it just vented out of the nozzle intake.
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Thatās the beauty of video Josh. You could have had to use a lot of words to try and explain what you experienced in less than a half minute of filming. The fact that your wife didnāt start yelling at you was also impressive. That would be at least a half hour ass chewing for me.
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so to clarify this is a fema gasifier so no hopper lid and for my first run it was wood pellets and Iām getting ready to run my test motor. But Iām excited!!!
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oh I heard about it haha. But ready for the next run
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Ok thatās good to know it was just wood pellets blowing back , as my very first engine run on wood was also a FEMA and like yours also blew back when i went to light my flare off . decided the next day after cleaning off the valves that it wasnāt going to suit what i needed and decided to run 100% on charcoal and copy Gary Gilmores simple fire and now nearly 10 years down the line and a few thousand run hours i am happy i did as its almost a no touchy touchy system once lit up .
Dave
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Just an experimental idea for this specific FEMA, maybe you could make a spring loaded lid that has the nozzle built in? Set the nozzle to the ideal active zone height with letās say a 1/2" NPT pipe. If you need it sized down you can add a pipe cap with a hole drilled in it.
The spring loaded lid will help keep fuel from just puffing out and you could get more concentrated air from the nozzle. It would be a very plug and play kind of experimentation without needing permanent modification.
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Just ran test motor.