We've received a few questions about how the Amish might gather and store compressed air without using "modern" tech. This is a great video that explains 2 processes that are both off grid. One uses a gas powered motor which some Amish folks are ok with. The other demonstrates a windmill approach. ua-cam.com/video/Oc0b4aBOyBw/v-deo.htmlfeature=shared
@@dansw0rkshop I seldom would ever need a motor to do anything and I think this would be less effective for industrial purposes than a waterwheel or a wood powered steam engine. So charging an air tank every now and then wouldn't be a problem. :)
Imagine in the next 100 years.... they'll have a vast network of strings on cans to talk to each other and pedal powered fridges and programmable Weight driven mechanical robots
@@bigmouthstrikesagain4056 Would be fascinating. But unfortunately the Amish and even the Mennonites are rapidly dwindling. The newer generations are leaving the lifestyle faster than ever before. It's actually quite tragic.
@@mzflighter6905 What is wasting their lives? Just because you yourself would never be one doesn't give it any more or less legitimacy than any other lifestyle. It may not be for everyone but their is something to be said for their traditionalism. The modern World is rife with poison. Poison they don't have to deal with.
I lost my shit at passive central geo heating and cooling... in an Amish community. All pneumaticaly run using heat expansion of metal springs to run the temperature controls. I wouldn't want to live WITH them, but defs as a neighbor.
They literally have a council of old men who decide what rules the community follows. Its that dumb, no science, no logic, just whatever these couple old men think is what they must do by law.
@@jacobpoucher Then so are Jews. It's not that they are against electricity. They use electricity to power their tools/equipment. They just want to be off the grid. When middle class people want to be off the grid it's edgy but when Amish want to remain that way then they're a "cult"??
I learned about an Amish carpentry shop, with a windmill powered air compressor. The big tank ran air nailers, saws sanders , drills, ect. Theres an air powered version of most tools, readily converted to carpentry, or other uses.
Honestly a fast-moving windmill or hydromechanical compressor in a nearby stream are the only ways I can think of to make a considerable amount of compressed air with the whole "no modern technology" thing the Amish have going. Unless they put horses on treadmills.
Man, they all have generators in their barns, to charge DeWalt batteries and run their refrigerators. They hook up the batteries to lights in their homes. They tow gas powered lawn mowers behind horses. Frauds.
Air powered tools actually have some advantage over electric ones for carpentry: no sparks. Pretty good in environment full of flammable dust, and ig compressed air can also help with cleaning it from stuff.
actually its just another type of steam engine minus the steam part. another one would be the stirling wich turns heat directly into a rotation. at the end of the day its engineering done well. i wonder how the valve on the shown unit works.
@@Irobert1115HD Steam engines and Stirling engines convert heat to linear motion to rotary motion. This is just a pneumatic motor using a swash plate, just like an AC pump in your car and refrigerator. Pneumatic motors are not the same as a heat engine (like a steam engine or stirling engine). Most pumps and motors you see today were actually attempts to build rotary steam engines that would do what you describe, simply create rotary motion from pressure. Go figure, the best steam engine is the steam turbine...which does what you describe 🙂
there is a way to generate huge quantities of compressed air using a water stream and a height difference . like a tromp . there was a guy in canada that built one system for supplying compressed air to a mine . it worked for a very long time like 50 years in northern ontario maybe sudbury. it had no moving parts except for the water which was free. it produced about 100 psi and supplied it with a pipe something like 20 inches in diameter so alot of air.
Ah, I remember this from a video essay about this specific type of motor used as a pump. It was in a book of mechanisms which often had to do with moving water. Interesting to see it used as a motor run off of compressed air
The motor runs on compressed air. Obviously they need an air compressor to create the air power to drive the motor. So how do they compress the air without electricity? Horse drawn compressors? LoL
@@michaelwarren2391 I doubt that would work because the motor spun backwards would not produce enough air volume to power another motor. Plus without wind, they would have no mechanical power. The Amish do use some modern technology but they don't like to admit it. I bet they use a modern air compressor to run these either powered by electricity or fossil fuel. I'm quite sure you can find computers and cellphones in an Amish community also. They try to keep their use of modern technology to a minimum, but they are not living like back in the 1800's by any means.
@@richb.4374 You don't understand... The thing that makes the motor spin is the release of compressed air. If you spin the motor backwards from a windmill, the air goes backwards and fills the tank up to the limit of what the system can handle... As in, if you're still strong enough to turn the wheel, air is still forced in and can't come back out. In reality, you'd have one of these hooked up to a windmill topping off all the time, and only use the air sporadically when you need it... I do agree that it's all a little silly, and that the Amish are just as dependent on secular society as we are but with extra steps... But they aren't conning us, and a cell phone in a community that may need to contact the police or paramedics is hardly cheating either.
It looks like it was made from a old aircon pump from a car! They work the same way mostly.. except for the shaft that has the belt pulley was replaced by a small housing with a small turbine to spin it up.. i've seen people turn old aircon pumps into 6 cylinder petrol engines and put em in bike's.. i assume that its very similar. But this is pretty cool regardless now they need to attach it to a wagon with a big compressed air chamber and bam amish car lol
If you consider that nerves and brains, in principle, also function electrically, you could well ask yourself whether the radical rejection of the use of electricity is in keeping with creation. Anyone who uses wind taps into the power that creates electrical lightning in the clouds. Greetings from Germany!🇩🇪🤝
They use internal combustion engines, or just simply windmills. As the original video poster shared earlier, this video shows both methods: ua-cam.com/video/Oc0b4aBOyBw/v-deo.html
It compresses the air. Turn the disks, the pistons move in and out. Flexible valves let the air in and then send it out the exit compressed. Crank it, put a horse on a turnstile, tell the kids NEVER turn that crank.
I’m so curious. How do you produce the compressed air effectively without gas or electricity?!? Second question, are the Amish ok with using the the sun for heat/thermal energy storage?!?!? Like black solar water heaters and focusing mirrors?!?
Thanks for the question Charlie. There is a wide range of thought on this depending on which particular Amish community you may be looking at. We are not experts on these sorts of details. To our knowledge they often use windmills to pump air into storage tanks for use with these motors and solar panels may be used in some communities on a very limited basis. Here's an article about it www.csmonitor.com/The-Culture/2008/1027/the-amish-go-solar-in-a-simple-way# Hope this helps.
Exactly those axial piston motors are often used for excavator track and turret drive. And most often driven from a variable displacement axial piston pump. These things are everywhere in big machine hydraulics.
That's very neat, sort of the same Agostino Ramelli design used in axial piston pumps. It raises the question though, from whence comes the compressed air? Do they have like, a whole team working a giant bellows? Or perhaps they pay have it piped in from non-Amish? Otherwise, they aren't eliminating use of electricity or fuel, they're just moving it's use elsewhere.
which is hilarious when you notice the parallels between that and our frantic push for 100% EVs. they want to believe they are, but they arent eliminating the use of oil, or environmental damage, they're just moving it where they dont see it in some child slave labor lithium mine in africa. or a powerplant so far outside of a city the average person would never visit that general area.
So there are ways to store energy without it being electric. Windmills maybe. I know water from dams was used to compress air industrially for mines. But still this seems antithetical to the point of not using modern technology to the point where it's about stigma and not practice. There are some basic "technologies" they could adapt like storing solar heat in thick walls or whatever to reduce wood consumption. But I thought the whole point of being Amish was to go against industrialization
It's not a catch all being Amish there are different levels and accepted things amongst the local churches the most strict Swartzentruber Amish don't use any powerd equipment out in their farms for instance ground driven lose hay loaders like my new idea l62 instead of horse team pulling a baler driven by a smaller engine than a tractor would use their buggies are very old style then you have ones like my friend Steven who is helping me start a carriage shop whose in the middle of the road who sees the northern Ohio communitys using electric bikes and sees it as the laziness that it is, but will still use off grid electric lighting to replace the other options that are proving to be Inadequate to keep up with the outside world due to whatever reason in this case with these motors its an off grid cheeper solution to battery's and can be built with off the shelf supplies I'm personally trying to figure out how I want to reverse engineer the railroad eclipse windmill of the late 1800s the largest commercial pumping windmill to meet my farms water and pneumatic air storage needs in particular for the ceiling fans,and carriage shop equipment
Isn't this a reversed Car AC compressor. How does the swash plate get its lubrication? Is it typically closed and you made a window for video purposes?
A lot of people diss the Amish for their choice of lifestyle, but personally I really respect the dedication to a set of ideals. And, if nothing else, the Amish will be able to pick up the pieces of our civilization if we ever get hit with a big CME, EMP attack, or something like that.
Hans, look at the internal diagram for an automotive ac compressor.. This air motor essentially is that style of compressor running with the input and output reversed. It is using what would normally be the compressed gas output of a swash plate driven compressor as the input power source - causing the motion of internal pistons which drive the swash plate attached to the output shaft.
The manufacture of the materials and the parts is definitely modern. How does this make it ok to use if you are not supposed to be using ‘modern’ technology?
Isn't that basically what a Swashplate hydraulic pump is? Or a car AC compressor actually? With a hydraulic swashplate you have the ability to change the degree of your driven plate angles thus increasing or decreasing the volume of the pistons traveling length. Otherwise simple and effective.
And if you connect the rotary shaft to a source of power (water wheel, windmill, electric/gasoline/diesel etc.) and spin it the other way, it's an air compressor. This would be both quieter and more compact than a common single- or dual-piston compressor pump.
Is this a loophole in the Amish rules? No electricity, but compressed air is fine? Or is it about being independent so they don't have to rely on the government for electricity
I can see one of those connected to the exhaust manifold of a car engine and feeding power back into the crankshaft, turning the kinetic energy of the exhaust gas into mechanical power. Think of the piston engine that has been turbo compounded.
This is an axial reciprocating motor and it's nothing new. In fact this concept has been around since 1588. They're usually used in reverse as hydraulic pumps (axial piston pump) and you'll find them nearly everywhere.
The general design is at least 800 years old. Saw a video where a similar pump was used, on a large scale, to move water up a level, run by water. This same idea is used on your (edit: air-conditioning) pump
This swash plate is installed in many Car Air Conditioned compressors, Wikipedia has an article about Axial or Barrel Engine, eg INNengine, I have no info about overall thermodynamic efficiency of Compressed Air engines, as an experimental QuasiTurbine unit here.
We've received a few questions about how the Amish might gather and store compressed air without using "modern" tech. This is a great video that explains 2 processes that are both off grid. One uses a gas powered motor which some Amish folks are ok with. The other demonstrates a windmill approach. ua-cam.com/video/Oc0b4aBOyBw/v-deo.htmlfeature=shared
Could these be done with a air storage tank that was pressurized by a bicycle pump? :)
@@TheNightshadePrince Yes, if you want to spend your whole life manning the pump.
@@dansw0rkshop I seldom would ever need a motor to do anything and I think this would be less effective for industrial purposes than a waterwheel or a wood powered steam engine. So charging an air tank every now and then wouldn't be a problem. :)
What size pumps and how much psi per minute to operate???🎉🎉🎉
Eine ausschliessliche Ernährung mit Hülsenfrüchten könnte das Problem der Druckluftbereitstellung lösen. 😅
looks like the Amish are having their technological revolution
Imagine in the next 100 years.... they'll have a vast network of strings on cans to talk to each other and pedal powered fridges and programmable Weight driven mechanical robots
@@bigmouthstrikesagain4056 Would be fascinating. But unfortunately the Amish and even the Mennonites are rapidly dwindling. The newer generations are leaving the lifestyle faster than ever before. It's actually quite tragic.
It's quite tragic that a hyper oppressive cults are dwindling? You have some fucked up priorities @@Keys879
@@Keys879No, it is quite good, as less and less people will end up wasting their lives and giving up on any advancement
@@mzflighter6905 What is wasting their lives? Just because you yourself would never be one doesn't give it any more or less legitimacy than any other lifestyle. It may not be for everyone but their is something to be said for their traditionalism. The modern World is rife with poison. Poison they don't have to deal with.
The hoops amish folk will jump through to meet their arbitrary requirements on extreme technicalities will never cease to be amusing.
I lost my shit at passive central geo heating and cooling... in an Amish community. All pneumaticaly run using heat expansion of metal springs to run the temperature controls. I wouldn't want to live WITH them, but defs as a neighbor.
Its a cult
You should look at what Jewish people do, its even more amusing. Dont know why people think they are outsmarting god.
They literally have a council of old men who decide what rules the community follows. Its that dumb, no science, no logic, just whatever these couple old men think is what they must do by law.
@@jacobpoucher Then so are Jews. It's not that they are against electricity. They use electricity to power their tools/equipment. They just want to be off the grid. When middle class people want to be off the grid it's edgy but when Amish want to remain that way then they're a "cult"??
I learned about an Amish carpentry shop, with a windmill powered air compressor. The big tank ran air nailers, saws sanders , drills, ect. Theres an air powered version of most tools, readily converted to carpentry, or other uses.
Honestly a fast-moving windmill or hydromechanical compressor in a nearby stream are the only ways I can think of to make a considerable amount of compressed air with the whole "no modern technology" thing the Amish have going. Unless they put horses on treadmills.
Man, they all have generators in their barns, to charge DeWalt batteries and run their refrigerators. They hook up the batteries to lights in their homes. They tow gas powered lawn mowers behind horses. Frauds.
theres a air compressor under the barn floor hahah
Air powered tools actually have some advantage over electric ones for carpentry: no sparks. Pretty good in environment full of flammable dust, and ig compressed air can also help with cleaning it from stuff.
@@ImieNazwiskoOK the amount of heat required to ignite wood dust is way too high. so powertools sparking ain't a fire hazard.
Mind officially blown apart!
Surprised that motor will run that kind of RPM with quality
this is a very old engine design, there's a youtube video of one that was designed for pumping water some ridiculously long time ago
actually its just another type of steam engine minus the steam part. another one would be the stirling wich turns heat directly into a rotation. at the end of the day its engineering done well. i wonder how the valve on the shown unit works.
The same design is used in A/C compressors
fluid dynamics 101
@@Irobert1115HD Steam engines and Stirling engines convert heat to linear motion to rotary motion. This is just a pneumatic motor using a swash plate, just like an AC pump in your car and refrigerator. Pneumatic motors are not the same as a heat engine (like a steam engine or stirling engine). Most pumps and motors you see today were actually attempts to build rotary steam engines that would do what you describe, simply create rotary motion from pressure.
Go figure, the best steam engine is the steam turbine...which does what you describe 🙂
In their defense, unlike combustion engines, this thing is powered by an air compressor hooked to a windmill, it's sweet tech
So they can only work on windy days. 🤔 seems reasonable.
@@stanleyhape8427they store the air in a tank you retard
@@stanleyhape8427 doesn't need to be windy, there just needs to be some amount of wind, it doesn't need to be much
@@a_w_em3006and compressed air can be stored
so it's like they stored the wind in the form of compressed air
@@sajeucettefoistunevaspasme.... why not just use a solar panel and battery.
there is a way to generate huge quantities of compressed air using a water stream and a height difference . like a tromp . there was a guy in canada that built one system for supplying compressed air to a mine . it worked for a very long time like 50 years in northern ontario maybe sudbury. it had no moving parts except for the water which was free. it produced about 100 psi and supplied it with a pipe something like 20 inches in diameter so alot of air.
Impressive, very nice...now let's see where the Amish get the compressed air.
Now let's see Paul Allen's pneumatic motor
Maybe bicycle pumps?
They use air compressors hooked up to gas generators. Not many traditional Amish left.
@@swervsplatt9672 , oh I see. Can’t blame them though, it may be impossible to survive without some kind of modern technology nowadays.
Air compressor works off a windmill
I can’t get over the sound, sounds like an old straight-6 or V12 at high revs. Would love to have this thing power all my appliances lol
Say no more.
When this admin is re-elected you will have your wish.
waiting for amish powered cars come out. Great series.
Compressed air powered cars would be sweet, after seeing this I bet they would sound great!
@@SKOMPAS For real, the pops and bop sounds would be sick!
@@SKOMPASsadly there have been real attempts from some automakers to build compressed-air cars, and they all failed.
When the Amish realise their while nervous system rely on electricity:
Guess I'll die
So they aren't allowed electricity. But they are allowed pneumatics?
Ah, I remember this from a video essay about this specific type of motor used as a pump. It was in a book of mechanisms which often had to do with moving water. Interesting to see it used as a motor run off of compressed air
I would bet anything that it required electricity in order to build this…😂
And most likely air get involved electricity somewhere along the compression.
The motor runs on compressed air. Obviously they need an air compressor to create the air power to drive the motor. So how do they compress the air without electricity? Horse drawn compressors? LoL
@@richb.4374When run backwards, the motor will act as a compressor. Drive it from a windmill.
@@michaelwarren2391 I doubt that would work because the motor spun backwards would not produce enough air volume to power another motor. Plus without wind, they would have no mechanical power. The Amish do use some modern technology but they don't like to admit it. I bet they use a modern air compressor to run these either powered by electricity or fossil fuel. I'm quite sure you can find computers and cellphones in an Amish community also. They try to keep their use of modern technology to a minimum, but they are not living like back in the 1800's by any means.
@@richb.4374 You don't understand... The thing that makes the motor spin is the release of compressed air. If you spin the motor backwards from a windmill, the air goes backwards and fills the tank up to the limit of what the system can handle... As in, if you're still strong enough to turn the wheel, air is still forced in and can't come back out. In reality, you'd have one of these hooked up to a windmill topping off all the time, and only use the air sporadically when you need it... I do agree that it's all a little silly, and that the Amish are just as dependent on secular society as we are but with extra steps... But they aren't conning us, and a cell phone in a community that may need to contact the police or paramedics is hardly cheating either.
It looks like it was made from a old aircon pump from a car! They work the same way mostly.. except for the shaft that has the belt pulley was replaced by a small housing with a small turbine to spin it up.. i've seen people turn old aircon pumps into 6 cylinder petrol engines and put em in bike's.. i assume that its very similar. But this is pretty cool regardless now they need to attach it to a wagon with a big compressed air chamber and bam amish car lol
If you consider that nerves and brains, in principle, also function electrically, you could well ask yourself whether the radical rejection of the use of electricity is in keeping with creation. Anyone who uses wind taps into the power that creates electrical lightning in the clouds. Greetings from Germany!🇩🇪🤝
What do they use to compress the air?
They use internal combustion engines, or just simply windmills. As the original video poster shared earlier, this video shows both methods: ua-cam.com/video/Oc0b4aBOyBw/v-deo.html
Clydesdales! You have 1Chp and up...
@@thundervallie
Then why bother with this?
@@Petesworkshop2225 cognative dissonance
@@Petesworkshop2225 I couldn't give you a proper answer, but if it didn't work well, why would people still use this design?
I wonder how they compress the air
It compresses the air. Turn the disks, the pistons move in and out. Flexible valves let the air in and then send it out the exit compressed. Crank it, put a horse on a turnstile, tell the kids NEVER turn that crank.
"No fuel, no electricity" Where did you get compressed air from?
I’m so curious. How do you produce the compressed air effectively without gas or electricity?!?
Second question, are the Amish ok with using the the sun for heat/thermal energy storage?!?!? Like black solar water heaters and focusing mirrors?!?
Thanks for the question Charlie. There is a wide range of thought on this depending on which particular Amish community you may be looking at. We are not experts on these sorts of details. To our knowledge they often use windmills to pump air into storage tanks for use with these motors and solar panels may be used in some communities on a very limited basis. Here's an article about it www.csmonitor.com/The-Culture/2008/1027/the-amish-go-solar-in-a-simple-way# Hope this helps.
@@alleghenyyork6343 thank you so much for sharing! This is so cool to learn!
A trompe would do it.
they store compressors via bike and horse. or as he says windmills. Or fart gas 😂? 🤔
So, where is the aircompressor, and what does it run on? I doubt it's air lol
Reminds me of an axial piston pump, but here it's used reversed. I'm impressed 👍
exactly what it is. An engine is just an air pump.
Exactly those axial piston motors are often used for excavator track and turret drive.
And most often driven from a variable displacement axial piston pump.
These things are everywhere in big machine hydraulics.
Reminds me of a cars air-conditioning compressor.
Ahhh yes, compressed air fresh from the compressed air bushes
How many horses does it take to run the compressor?
That's very neat, sort of the same Agostino Ramelli design used in axial piston pumps. It raises the question though, from whence comes the compressed air? Do they have like, a whole team working a giant bellows? Or perhaps they pay have it piped in from non-Amish? Otherwise, they aren't eliminating use of electricity or fuel, they're just moving it's use elsewhere.
Exactly!
which is hilarious when you notice the parallels between that and our frantic push for 100% EVs. they want to believe they are, but they arent eliminating the use of oil, or environmental damage, they're just moving it where they dont see it in some child slave labor lithium mine in africa. or a powerplant so far outside of a city the average person would never visit that general area.
Usually they compress air with windmill power
How they compress the air tho?
Where does the compressed air come from?
Is the only question!
this motor sounds extremely cool
damn look at that wear and tear right there.
So there are ways to store energy without it being electric. Windmills maybe. I know water from dams was used to compress air industrially for mines. But still this seems antithetical to the point of not using modern technology to the point where it's about stigma and not practice.
There are some basic "technologies" they could adapt like storing solar heat in thick walls or whatever to reduce wood consumption.
But I thought the whole point of being Amish was to go against industrialization
It's not a catch all being Amish there are different levels and accepted things amongst the local churches the most strict Swartzentruber Amish don't use any powerd equipment out in their farms for instance ground driven lose hay loaders like my new idea l62 instead of horse team pulling a baler driven by a smaller engine than a tractor would use their buggies are very old style then you have ones like my friend Steven who is helping me start a carriage shop whose in the middle of the road who sees the northern Ohio communitys using electric bikes and sees it as the laziness that it is, but will still use off grid electric lighting to replace the other options that are proving to be Inadequate to keep up with the outside world due to whatever reason in this case with these motors its an off grid cheeper solution to battery's and can be built with off the shelf supplies I'm personally trying to figure out how I want to reverse engineer the railroad eclipse windmill of the late 1800s the largest commercial pumping windmill to meet my farms water and pneumatic air storage needs in particular for the ceiling fans,and carriage shop equipment
Watch this. ua-cam.com/video/Oc0b4aBOyBw/v-deo.htmlfeature=shared
Pretty cool, some hydraulic motors use the same concept.
So what exactly provides the compressed air?
"No fuel" So compressing air does not require any fuel. Really? Are you sure? Is that in some alternate universe that has different laws of physics?
Never thought I would say this... But that's some Cool Amish Tech
Isn't this a reversed Car AC compressor. How does the swash plate get its lubrication? Is it typically closed and you made a window for video purposes?
How are they compressing the air for the engine? Or what is achieving the air moving into the engine?
With a gas (or diesel) powered air compressor.
This is what happens when religion runs your life.
A novel idea, but how do they produce all that compressed air to make that motor work. Looks pretty technical to me.
Can this motor be used to run an air compressor ;)
Soon there will be wall mounted air connectors in the house and kitchen equipment running on air.
A lot of people diss the Amish for their choice of lifestyle, but personally I really respect the dedication to a set of ideals.
And, if nothing else, the Amish will be able to pick up the pieces of our civilization if we ever get hit with a big CME, EMP attack, or something like that.
Sounds better than my car!
Takes fuel or electricity to make the compressed air.
Are you saying that a compressed air powered vehicle is possible but we don't have it for some reasons?
How do the amish compress enough air to keep that running with no electricity?
Very interesting! What is the power output and air consumption? Does it sound like construction work when they do laundry?!
No fuel, no electricity? So what compresses the air?
Where do they get the compressed air??
P.S. Amish in IN can use diesels...
I swear the Amish are just trying to live the hardest life possible
No fuel or electricity? Where are they getting the huge amounts of compressed air?
I wonder how the run the air compressor
so the compressed Air is always produced without electricity?
Would like to see it disassembled and get a better understanding of how it works. If you would make such a video it would be super
ua-cam.com/video/Mj1GB61cI74/v-deo.html
@@ronaldroberts7221 Thanks for sharing this video Ronald.
Hans, look at the internal diagram for an automotive ac compressor.. This air motor essentially is that style of compressor running with the input and output reversed. It is using what would normally be the compressed gas output of a swash plate driven compressor as the input power source - causing the motion of internal pistons which drive the swash plate attached to the output shaft.
But how do they compress the air? Steam engines? wood burning?
It actually sounds good
it is a reversed pump ... what is your point?
Compressed air? How does the air get to required compression without electricity?
Did they make it using wood and blacksmith metal? That's amazing 👏
The manufacture of the materials and the parts is definitely modern. How does this make it ok to use if you are not supposed to be using ‘modern’ technology?
You can make compressed air with wind turbines. Neat.
i used the air to destroy the air
Not enough in a reasonable amount of time to run this thing for a meaningful amount of time.
@@DiahRhiaJones Depends on the size of the compressor, but also: tanks.
Runs on compressed air. No fuel, no electricity.
How does the air get compressed?
Is a trompe nearby?
Can this work with steam instead of air?
and how do they compress the air?
So how do you compress the air to run this motor without fuel or electricity
Isn't that basically what a Swashplate hydraulic pump is? Or a car AC compressor actually? With a hydraulic swashplate you have the ability to change the degree of your driven plate angles thus increasing or decreasing the volume of the pistons traveling length. Otherwise simple and effective.
¿how are the valves?
¿why don't make it rotary?
So how do you compress the air.
Many ways exist. Wind powered air compressors for example are a thing
how do they get the compressed air tho... i thought they have little elli blow into a pipe .
So what's compressing the air?
How many have to blow into the pipe to make it work?
When's the Amish go-kart championship being held?
how long until the amish rediscover electricity
Isn't plastic made from oil?
And if you connect the rotary shaft to a source of power (water wheel, windmill, electric/gasoline/diesel etc.) and spin it the other way, it's an air compressor. This would be both quieter and more compact than a common single- or dual-piston compressor pump.
Is this a loophole in the Amish rules? No electricity, but compressed air is fine? Or is it about being independent so they don't have to rely on the government for electricity
And where is that compressed air coming from?
So how do they get compressed air without electricity or fuel?
so, a Wobble Plate Piston Air Pump in reverse is a motor. cool!
(ive seen them in cars as AC compressors)
Remarkably like an old GM Harrison auto AC compressor.
What’s the source of the compressed air? Is that produced via fuel or electricity?
fascinating, wonder what this can lead to?
What is powering the air pump
...what makes the high pressured air to come through to turn it?
Made from a distributor?
Ok but where does the air come from. An electric or petrol compressor?
And how do you get compressed air ?
My question is... How do you get compressed air without electricity or internal combustion?
Many ways exist. Wind powered air compressors for example are a thing
I can see one of those connected to the exhaust manifold of a car engine and feeding power back into the crankshaft, turning the kinetic energy of the exhaust gas into mechanical power. Think of the piston engine that has been turbo compounded.
How are they getting that compressed air without an electric air compressor
Many ways exist. Wind powered air compressors for example are a thing
This is an axial reciprocating motor and it's nothing new. In fact this concept has been around since 1588. They're usually used in reverse as hydraulic pumps (axial piston pump) and you'll find them nearly everywhere.
Where do they get the compressed air from though? A gasoline and electric free compressor😅??
Will it run on steam?
Wheres the compressed air coming from?
But how do you produce the compressed air?Little Johnny is blow a lung out
Where are they getting their compressed air from is my question. I doubt they are using a methane digestor to get compressed gas.
Many ways exist. Wind powered air compressors for example are a thing
Aaaaaand what makes the compressed air again???
But who compresses the air?
What is run off of steam?
Annnd...how do they compress air in a cylinder? Fuel and electricity.
And how do they get the compressed air?
The general design is at least 800 years old. Saw a video where a similar pump was used, on a large scale, to move water up a level, run by water. This same idea is used on your (edit: air-conditioning) pump
power steering pumps typically use vane pumps.
@@shamancredible8632 I got them confused.
This swash plate is installed in many Car Air Conditioned compressors, Wikipedia has an article about Axial or Barrel Engine, eg INNengine, I have no info about overall thermodynamic efficiency of Compressed Air engines, as an experimental QuasiTurbine unit here.