The WVO Conversion: Three Months Later
Posted by Chris in Energy Solutions, WVO vehicle on 13. Feb, 2012 | 0 Comments
Just thought I would update how the van is doing on waste vegetable oil …
It has been about three months since we have completed the WVO conversion, and an educated guess would say that we have gone about 10,000 km on WVO since then. Most of this mileage (8000km) was done on our cross country … Read More →
WVO Trip
Posted by Chris in Community, Family on 23. Jan, 2012 | 3 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 →
