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I don't know much about this topic but one thing that always sort of turned me off camping is that it...gets pretty cold outside, or hot. Heat isn't such a big problem, since in most places you probably won't die from it and you can do things such as open the windows and/or just go the gently caress somewhere else where it's not so hot, but the cold bit is a bit harder especially since most mobile abodes aren't so well insulated and even mild hospitable locations can get uncomfortably cold at night. Running the vehicle's engine or a fossil fuel generator is sort of unappealing, but has anyone considered using some kind of wood burning stove? I just have this sort of hazy idea in my mind after seeing this thing https://practicalpreppers.com/about-us/product-reviews/item/201-30-watt-thermoelectric-generator which gives me all kinds of neat thoughts about going out and living in the woods and using up all that firewood just lying around. I have even more crazy ideas like a pop-out wood burning stove on an RV that will serve to do any number of things, like heat up a cooling circuit that can heat the interior, have a cooking surface, and also provide electricity via the thermocouple. Inconjuction with this, now that EVs and hybrid vehicles with their big ol batteries are more common, it seems like the perfect sort of tow-behind vehicle to have with a camper, supposing the technical details can be worked out that allow you to actually use the vehicle's battery for stuff other than moving. Throatwarbler fucked around with this message at 11:47 on Jun 17, 2014 |
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Fair enough on the legal limtations, but with respect to the smoke, creosote issue, the wood stove in my house does not fill the kitchen with smoke when I use it, all the smoke is quite effectively evacuated through the chimney. A chimney on an RV isn't going to be nearly as big as the one on a house and doesn't need to snake through a brick wall, only exit the relatively thin body of the camper, and as such should be easy enough to remove and clean. Thinking about it for a moment, why not make the back of the stove a door outside the camper, so that in the morning, the door can be opened outside and the ashes simply dumped out on the ground behind the vehicle? Or maybe make the whole stove "face" out the back/side of the vehicle, with the wood being fed in from the outside, and the "back" of the stove designed to radiate heat into the cabin?
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Jun 17, 2014 15:51
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Behold! Make it so the chimney section on top can be easily removed by climbing up to the roof of the truck, hell make the whole drat kit and kaboodle removable. engineer some way to radiate the heat into the truck, maybe even run coolant lines from the engine and use that, with the added bonus of reducing engine warmup times on cold mornings, atach thermocouples for light power generation, it's just a matter of how much efficiency you want vs how complex you want to engineer the whole circuit. Throatwarbler fucked around with this message at 16:55 on Jun 17, 2014 |
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Viper_3000 posted:The chimney on your house is easily 15 feet tall at minimum. What you drew based on most RV's is about 7 feet + whatever the extension you drew is (Not another 8 feet for sure). The reason your chimney in the house works so well is because of the draft that's created by having that long piece of pipe going up thru your entire house and (if it's to code) 3 feet above it. You can't shrink that distance and expect to get the same amount of draft. I suppose you could make the chimney taller although that would be rather difficult to set up and tear down, but at this point the entire stove is outside the cabin so the smoke should be a non issue right?
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Jun 17, 2014 17:24
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