DIY Homemade Cooking Oil Diesel Generator!

by max on Tuesday, September 30th, 2008

Here’s a great way to re-use cooking oil in a DIY homemade diesel engine to power up your garden lights.

“I have built a “off the Grid” home generator using a 1950’s Coventry Victor one cylinder diesel generator, I can run this on diesel or a diesel and used cooking oil mixture and have it attached to a large battery via a 40amp car alternator which supplies my garden lighting and via an inverter for 600 watts of home power and lighting. The waste heat is used to keep my garage warm as well.

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Tags: car alternator, cooking oil, coventry, cylinder diesel, diesel engine, diesel generator, garden lighting, home generator, oil mixture, waste heat, watts

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One Response to “DIY Homemade Cooking Oil Diesel Generator!”

Nicole Price says:

October 1, 2008 at 6:48 am

More such innovations will be soon needed all over the place. It is a good thing that you have done there. Wish I could do something like this too.

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