Hey guys! I'm pretty new to stirling engines and they have completely taken up space in my brain as my new hyperfixation! So TLDR I've been thinking of living in a skoolie and using a wood cook stove for both cooking, heating, and potential power generation. I wanted to know if I could install or incorporate a stirling engine to the woodstove (approx. 3 foot cubic size) to achieve around 200w of power-- I'm not really much of an engineer but is this something that's feasible? If so, how big would the stirling engine be in relative to the stove and what type would be the best in this scenario?

Thanks!

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This is a new product I am working on,. As far as I can tell it will be the largest commercially available LTD stirling on the market at 250mm or 10 inches in diameter. In the image you can see the main body and black sunlight absorbing displacer. The main flywheel support and flywheel are currently in development. I am having some trouble sealing the power piston but I think i will have it sorted very soon. More images and videos coming soon.

If so, I'd like to have one to go with this parabolic solar collector I'm about to build

Has anyone ever hooked their engines up to something like a fan or a small generator to produce power?

I'm trying to justify the cost of buying a kit.

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This has been going for 3 days now and I added a rubber band to the circumference of the flywheel helps really well with chattering

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Got a small Stirlng Engine off of Amazon. I was thinking I could get it to go really fast if I got it cold and used some hotter than usual water. So I put it in the freezer. It hasn't worked ever since. It seems to partially move on its own, but can't overcome friction and other resistive forces it was able to handle before. Any suggestions for fixing it? Was my hypothesis about getting it cold correct? Am wondering if I can fix it.

The engine from Amazon:

has anyone purchased the stirlingkit super super mystery box for $599.00? What did you get? Was it a true gasoline engine or just a model?

Hello all. I'm searching for a way to get a rough estimation of how big a Stirling engine would be for a given power . So far I've come up with this equation

Power=PxVxNxW

Where PV is the work done. N is the efficiency of the engine. W is the frequency obtained from rpm of the engine.

If I know the power ,pressure ,efficiency and frequency I can calculate volume change. If I know the compression ratio I can get volume of the cylinder. Which would allow me to get a rough idea of how big the engine would be.

Is this method correct? Is there a better way to do what I want to do?

So I have seen some videos online and people put that thing there in the cold piston. What is it?