Do you think OHV breather pulse of a multi-cylinder engine will also work?
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Yeah you just need a high pressure. You just need to vent the hose enough so it does not over pressure. You need only a tiny amount of pressure for this.
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Henry, what is the point of this statement? Almost any electric car purchase requires installation of a high power (240VAC 30-50 amp?) circuit for fast charging. So does an electric range or clothes dryer, or water heater, or welder, for that matter. Its Kilo-Watts, man. No Magic Here.
If it was common to have 3-phase 477v power to residences, we would be using that! (and it would be more efficient.) 
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The wood gasifier powered generator is three phase and I do not remember voltage . It is connected to 48 volt charger for fork lift . Many other power lines are three phase . One power line one ground so no three phase at transformer . You need three phase for a large dc transformer . I did not even mention this , just mentioned small charger standard equipment . and standard home wall charger .
Originally my house had electric range and propane water heater . I changed it to gas stove and electric water heater . I have whirlpool bath that I do not use because it just takes too much power .
I think it takes more power to fill and run bath then charge ev .
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Ive been busy working on custom design work for a new proposed system for two different clients.
This proposed system is a chip fed or small chunk fuel machine. You feed this system raw fuel just like any ordinary gasifier. The system features a kiln / heater processor that is similar to the VersiFire but since it inputs chip fuel its reactor is actually simpler. Its just feed tube that extends down to a grate. The fuel is lit at the grate level and air feeds in from the bottom side of the grate. The fuel combustion process reduces the fuel to char and grate via actuation drops the char chips into an auger. The combustion heats the fuel in the feed tube and then exits out to a natural draft chimney. There is a chamber that surrounds this for water reclaim so you use that much like an out door boiler.
As the char chips are produced they are auger fed out to the gasifier. We will use our flap sensor to detect when the hopper is full and this will have self ignition and engine self start and shut down capability. So when when this sensor is tripped we will slow the auger feed and grate agitation intervals down and then auto run the generator for timed cycle. Once cycle is complete the gasifier and engine will shut down and go into standby mode waiting for the hopper to replenish.
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Ok so the VersiFire is coming along. The wire feed drive on my welder crapped out today so spent most the day fixing it. So a day behind >:(
So looking like tomorrow for completion of the welding. Just need to build the hot plate, hopper lid, water tank and clean out bin and the welding will be complete. Then just a matter of installing grate actuator and water pump for the water drip, then wiring it all up.
Edit: See that board in the back ground? Those are all orders and more are coming!!
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Ok all is left is installing the grate actuator, water pump and wiring up a simple controller and it will be ready to go. It will more than likely be its first light up at the show as I have limited time to get other stuff built up until then 
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Well Matt all i can say from looking at the photo’s is wow i wish i could lay my hands on some of your art work ! i hope there are plenty of video’s and photo’s taken at the meet .
Dave
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Matt, all I can say is Wow Wow Wow, looking forward to the first light up.
Bob
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Ok the M-1 base for Brian is ready and the M-1 Ute R1 RTR for Danny Moore is coming along. Should have that near completion tomorrow, so should be in good shape for next week
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what thickness of fabric do you use? .0542 “or .026”
IN YOUR VIDEO you use a spray on the fabric, what is it?
Thierry
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The spray is most likely a contact cement spray like DAP
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You can use either. The better it filters the more you will need to service it. I am going to try a fine Stainless steel mesh next. The idea is not for the SS mesh to be the filter; as dust and debris accumulate a cake will form and that is what becomes the filter. On a new clean filter your later fine filter will get a little dirtier as the cake is formed. You then simply use a toilet brush to clean it and then use a shop vac to clean it out. The SS mesh should then never need replacement or even removal if you can access it that way.
Yeah the spray is contact spray its just to stick it together to make stapling it easier.
Here is the SS mesh. This is specific for filtering; Im going to the get the finest one they offer in 304. The finer mesh is also cheaper for some reason.
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New Predator 9500 watt inverter generator just come on market. What is cool about this thing is they are working on the parallel kit for this thing. So you could team two of them together essentially doubling the output.
Like in my shop, If Im just running the welder, CNC machine individually or just running the general shop equipment I could just run one unit. But If I need to run the CNC machine and our Welder at the same time I could fire up the second one. I could run them in parallel on a single gasifier as well. If you mix the air fuel and then go into a tee and then branch to each unit it should be possible to run both units. I have ran two engines on a single unit so I do know it is possible.
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Ok so the SS mesh came in. I think that is way the forward, still need to test, but the idea of this filter is to be passive as possible and its job is to be a coarse filter. Those two criteria Im sure it will meet.
It is very easy to work with as well. You can cut this stuff with the kitchen scissors and the stapler had no issue at all stapling through it.
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So Id say the SS mesh is doing what it is supposed to. Its now forming the cake.
I think this will self clean as well. If you crumple the bag up, what should happen is as it cakes up and starts to restrict the bag will expand and straighten out flaking off the cake. This debris will simply fall to the bottom of the filter. It could takes months to a year before it would need to be serviced if it works that way.
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Looking good Matt! So now your filtrrarea is bigger then before? Sack versus plate?
I am thinking of using polyester needle felt. Plenty of that stuff here, but temp is an isue.
Why did you change?
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No the filter i exactly the same except its made out of SS mesh. The silica cloth works as well but it is a bit tighter. The SS can breath better, temps are no issue, it will probably outlast the machine and should be less maintenance.
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Matt, What open area mesh did you use?
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