WVO Trip
Posted by Chris in Community, Family on 23. Jan, 2012 | 2 Comments
I keep hoping to update the site with some photos of the trip … but it has not been as easy as I thought while travelling!
Here are a few pictures …in the next few days I will post a video of the map along with pics for each section.
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Delica WVO Conversion: What I Did
Posted by Chris in Energy Solutions, WVO vehicle on 10. Dec, 2011 | 0 Comments
This is sort-of-like a Haynes shop manual of the WVO conversion …
This is what the L400 looked like after I first pulled it into the shop and popped the hood.
When I was working on the engine I removed the intercooler, the battery and the air filter. The intercooler has a number of electrical sensor lines … Read More →
Delica WVO Conversion: the Basics
Posted by Chris in Energy Solutions, WVO vehicle on 10. Dec, 2011 | 0 Comments
A WVO conversion allows you to burn oil instead of diesel as the fuel that powers a diesel engine. Diesel engines have a long history of using oil as a fuel. Most modern ships use diesel engines and run on bunker fuel … bunker fuel is a fancy word for oil. One of the original … Read More →
Arduino WVO ECU on a Breadboard!
Posted by Chris in Arduino, Energy Solutions, Technology, WVO vehicle on 08. Dec, 2011 | 0 Comments
I understand that most people will not find this post too exciting … but I am excited!
I have been working on an ECU (electronic control unit or more simply computer) for the WVO system. My current operating schematic (ECU_schem) is as shown in this post.
I finally got some of the parts laid out on a breadboard … Read More →
Delica WVO tank
Posted by Chris in WVO vehicle on 02. Dec, 2011 | 0 Comments
I’d thought I would do an introductory post on WVO (waste vegetable oil) conversions generally, but I have been working on the fuel tank recently so I guess I am going to post on that …
The typical automotive diesel engine is not setup to use oil as fuel; if you were to try to run … Read More →
Delica WVO Liftoff!
Posted by Chris in Arduino, Energy Solutions, Technology, WVO vehicle on 29. Nov, 2011 | 0 Comments
After weeks of work it was pretty anticlimactic … no flames, no loud woosh, no G-force.
On the way into Kamloops this morning (after the engine had warmed up) I flipped the switch labelled WVO (waste vegetable oil) on the dashboard to ‘Oil’ and … nothing happened. I kept driving down the highway but Sandra and … Read More →
