Jalapeno driving my Sterling heat engine. Must be a better way. LOL. Video

[D_Thomas]

This is what I am using to know if my miner stops working. The Sterling heat engine runs off the temperature differential. When the Jalapeno is not running there is not enough heat to turn the wheel. When I was mining with a GPU I used a more elegant method where I set an alarm to go off in Speedfan if the GPU temp fell below a certain level.

Anyone know of any software I can use to alert me if the miner shuts down? Although I'm starting to like the Sterling engine on the Jalapeno now. ;p It's a good conversation piece. Running BFGMiner 3.1.3 on an old PC laptop with Windows 7 Pro 32bit.

Video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rZbpC9bULo

[Elwar]

Do you feed the electricity produced by the sterling engine back into the Jalapeno thus creating a perpetual mining rig?!!??

[D_Thomas]

Do you feed the electricity produced by the sterling engine back into the Jalapeno thus creating a perpetual mining rig?!!??

Why didn't I think of that?    Need to find me a little generator to run off the engine's wheel. Maybe with the extra power I can drive the Jalapeno only using power from the USB port. Haha! May have to overclock the Jalapeno to boost the heat so the wheel goes faster. Before I had it on top of a router that gets real hot and the wheel spun quite a bit faster.

[ElitePork]

Flip the jally upside down. More heat are generated at the bottom

[Trongersoll]

where did you get the engine? that's cute. 

[D_Thomas]

where did you get the engine? that's cute. 

Got it from eBay for $37.99 with free shipping but it was shipped to me from Amazon which was pretty weird. At eBay search for "Brand New Low Temperature Stirling Engine Education Toy Kit Free Shipping Via US" There are some a little cheaper but I didn't want to wait a month to get it direct from China. Arrived in a couple days. Seller was "greenpoweronline".

[D_Thomas]

Here is a another video I shot today with it on top of a 16oz jar with hot water. Ran 1 hour. I also polished the tips of the flywheel shaft to make them mirror smooth. The shaft tip from the factory is a bit rough.

http://youtu.be/0cogigoXJeI