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Basically if it's a liquid you can inkjet it. (basically each nozzle has a chamber with a tube leading into it and a hole in the top. A resistor heater boils

by BMc2020 3y ago

Basically if it's a liquid you can inkjet it. (basically each nozzle has a chamber with a tube leading into it and a hole in the top. A resistor heater boils the drop and it spits out the hole). I always wondered if anyone ever tried to make a fuel injector out of one. (the finer the mist you can make your gasoline, the better it combusts). Source: I looked at thousands of these things under a microscope at a company that makes lots of them. 0/10 would not recommend.

samstave 3y ago
I wonder if you could make a really good fuel injected motor utilizing these for RC/Drone engines. An RC/drone I think that would be neat would be a 'diesel electric' (not diesel) - but a motor utilizing this for injecting into a generator for a gas-electric helicopter. Like a Chinook where the interior is the gas-electric generator, but the overall design modeled after the Chinook given that its the Heavy Lifter of Helos with a payload lift capacity of ~20 tons.? -- In the late 1990s I worked at a company who manufactured a lot of the physical media for various software/games/OS (Intuit/Everquest/SunOS for example) We manufatered the CDs, copy, manuals, boxes, etc - boxed and shipped it... All the CDs were printed using Brother inkjets. My buddy was a fairly famous DJ in the rave scene in the 90s - so in my off hours we would make and print his CDs... dj morgan... I designed and printed these logos onto CDs in the 90s https://i.imgur.com/6VUWeQN.png https://i.imgur.com/6VUWeQN.png (I actually designed the Decepticon Logo in circuitry when I worked at Intel - but we lost the artwork, and that was the cover - the CD was printed with the logo as drawn in circuit traces and was pretty bad ass for the 90s scene...)
simne 3y ago
For engine injector need high pressure. In automobile direct injector used 20 layers of piezoelectric plates to achieve this, and sure, high voltage applied.
- regularfry 3y ago
  I'm pretty sure I've come across piezos on inkjet printers too. Can't remember the make, but resistive heating is only one way to get the ink to go splat.
  - simne 3y ago
    May be idea to boil drop, or even partially evaporate. So I think, thermo-sublimation process definitely works with heating.

samstave 3y ago

I wonder if you could make a really good fuel injected motor utilizing these for RC/Drone engines. An RC/drone I think that would be neat would be a 'diesel electric' (not diesel) - but a motor utilizing this for injecting into a generator for a gas-electric helicopter. Like a Chinook where the interior is the gas-electric generator, but the overall design modeled after the Chinook given that its the Heavy Lifter of Helos with a payload lift capacity of ~20 tons.? -- In the late 1990s I worked at a company who manufactured a lot of the physical media for various software/games/OS (Intuit/Everquest/SunOS for example) We manufatered the CDs, copy, manuals, boxes, etc - boxed and shipped it... All the CDs were printed using Brother inkjets. My buddy was a fairly famous DJ in the rave scene in the 90s - so in my off hours we would make and print his CDs... dj morgan... I designed and printed these logos onto CDs in the 90s https://i.imgur.com/6VUWeQN.png https://i.imgur.com/6VUWeQN.png (I actually designed the Decepticon Logo in circuitry when I worked at Intel - but we lost the artwork, and that was the cover - the CD was printed with the logo as drawn in circuit traces and was pretty bad ass for the 90s scene...)

simne 3y ago

For engine injector need high pressure. In automobile direct injector used 20 layers of piezoelectric plates to achieve this, and sure, high voltage applied.

regularfry 3y ago
I'm pretty sure I've come across piezos on inkjet printers too. Can't remember the make, but resistive heating is only one way to get the ink to go splat.
- simne 3y ago
  May be idea to boil drop, or even partially evaporate. So I think, thermo-sublimation process definitely works with heating.