Re: Heating air for cab, where to take it form?
Posted by:
Caleb Ramsby (IP Logged)
Date: March 06, 2003 11:02PM
<HTML>Terry,
"Don't put any restriction between your cab heater and your condenser (or wherever it is that you are going to discharge it to)."
I don't exactly understand what you meen. For a cab heater I would use a condensor from an air conditioning unit and have proper tubing to take the steam from the normal exhaust or from another source. Then place said unit in a duct, through which air would be pushed via a fan and go into the cab. Do you meen to say leave the smaller condensor in open air and just pull hot air coming off of it into the duct?
Dick,
I had never thought about those particular benefits of a "soundless car". A viable benefit!
David,
I should have made clear that I have had no actual experiance with a steam car and this is all hypothetical thoughts, however my goal is to have a car of my own design going before I am thirty years of age. Right now I have seven years left.
I am wondering, when warming up the engine, does the steam still go into the condensor or is it exhausted into the atmoshpere? My concern over the rupture of a condensor is that of the steam going through the engine and not loosing as much pressure as when it is utalized when the engine is in motion. However thinking about it more throughly I have come to the belief that it is exhausted into the atmosphere.
For the heater deal I think that a good valve that would bring the steam from the boiler way down on pressure and temperature, then admiting it to the smaller condensor when at a stand still would be more that adequate.
I am considering more and more heavily a jet condensor for the engine so that an automotive radiator would be able to work more effeciently. This would give one a more controlable and stable medium to extract heat from.
Say that one needed to heat the car when it is idle, I think that admiting some wire drawn steam into the jet condensor(mabey have a seperate line going straight into the condensor) and then extracting the heat from the water that was used to condense it would be a practical system. Then the heater control at a stand still would be only how much steam was admited to the jet condensor, thus how hot the water in the radiator is. Then at speed the control of heat would be with fan speed, and mabey a slide valve to close off more of the radiator area.
This system would dictate a donkey engine, but this(donkey) has been in my plans the whole time.
Caleb Ramsby</HTML>