Cody, thanks for the kick! I have been meaning to do this for some time… Perfect timing!
Lets see how this goes
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Yes, charcoal it is. Downdraft , theoretic it would be possible to mix wood in.
Engine is set at 3050 tpm. Governor keeps in that way. If woodgas comes in, diesel is cut off if neccesary. Difficult to measure if dieselconsumption is less. Any easy way to do that?
The nice thing about diesel is, you dont need a blower to start the gasifier.
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Kristijan, what is that soup???
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He’s turning maize into hominy to unlock the nutrients. Boiled in an alkaline solution so usually lyewater from ash.
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Similar to preparing stockfish I guess. We call it lyefish. Christmas food.
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we call it grits. Just dry it and grind it into a coarse meal. then boil to make a mush. add butter and salt and pepper and you’re a southerner.
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thanks for the info Paul
exactly my point, why are we using these expensive refrigerants?
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Joep, looking great! Great feeling isnt it 
Billy, l didnt know grits is made out of this.
Ha, funny anecdote. When we went to US l was anctious to finaly try the famous grits Mr Wayne and Billy constantly braged about. Only to find the dish of my youth on the plate 
brings out childhood memorys.
However, corn gritz is called polenta here, and the dish we call gritz (gres actualy) is made out of wheat. Boiled in milk usualy thugh and sweetened with coco or honey
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Joep, my theory or even experiments with a diesel engine on wood gas:
on the high-pressure pump itself, I limit the amount of injection to such an extent that the engine is still running with difficulty unloaded
the speed controller thus keeps the injection of this small amount of diesel fuel open, unless the engine exceeds the set speed
the speed controller should also open the wood gas damper, which would be mixed in an air mixer to a ratio of 1/1
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It is, a little, just tested a bit. And it will never be as spectacular as driving. That makes me thinking of your Arosa…100% chargas to generate electricity and heat would be great. Still trying a lot of things and 1000 gallons of veggieoil. Little diesel has to stay until I run out of that.
Thanks Tone. So far I like the KISS, fuel is for free at the moment. Exhaust smell was better this way, but only half an hour run with big pufs and blue smoke. Maybe to much woodgas…Dropbox got really hot too, filter was still ok. Test some more… Thanks
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I think we just call that porridge
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Isnt porridge oatmeal?
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like K said, I think it’s oatmeal, but even so, If you called grits “porrige” they would have to be way too wet and runny to be real grits. 
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Hi Joep, yes it is worthy. Start your topic so it will be on your own thread in one place.
Bob
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All right then. I will see if some one is interested. Running for an hour now. Maybe it is worthy.
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Great Joep, you can move everything you have done so far and place on your new thread.
Bob
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Kristijan,
The grits I make, which I think it typical for southern US grits, is simply course-ground dried corn. I expect that is what Wayne serves.
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You got it Steve !
Just about every morning and often for supper .
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I was at a car show today. Demonstrated Matt Ryder’s M-1 charcoal gasifier producing gas for a 3500 watt predator generator to power a popcorn popper. I handed out 37 papers explaining woodgas ( I only hand them out when they are really interested in gasification) and almost 1100 free bags of popcorn. Really nice event to raise money for children’s charity here. Also four times I had to use the woodgas truck to jump the battery on the lawnower powered train that the children could ride for free. A good amount of exposure for chargas and woodgas today.
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Got my new saddle in the mail today. It’s shiny because I just applied neatsfoot oil on it to soak in. The cow neck they used for this thing was bone dry so I wanted to moisturize it before I ruin it.
After that I’ll loctite all the fasteners on this thing. It’s basically a clone of the old Brooks saddles. Hairpin in the front and coils in the back.
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