Ain't that the way of things, it's especially so for your avatar pic.
I'm thinking for a unit designed to use an 5.25" external bay, it's front panel'd consist of the fuel filler, indicator lights, test switch, a filtered air intake and a ducted exhaust port. If you wanted to get fancy, I'd add a small display for fuel level, estimated operating time, temps etc.
On the rear panel....usb port and a generic power terminal setup to let you hook up whatever device you want to power.
The guts of the box is going to be fuel tank, ducting, a number of GTPS chips, control and power management gear.
The more I think on this the more I'm thinking that what we're doing here is theoretically scaling down something that should all ready exist, a UPS with a small gas turbine generator. Although if they do I doubt they come in at a similar size to a 600 watt UPS roughly two 6-packs of 375ml cans length wise.
--Rod.H
I'm thinking for a unit designed to use an 5.25" external bay, it's front panel'd consist of the fuel filler, indicator lights, test switch, a filtered air intake and a ducted exhaust port. If you wanted to get fancy, I'd add a small display for fuel level, estimated operating time, temps etc.
On the rear panel....usb port and a generic power terminal setup to let you hook up whatever device you want to power.
The guts of the box is going to be fuel tank, ducting, a number of GTPS chips, control and power management gear.
The more I think on this the more I'm thinking that what we're doing here is theoretically scaling down something that should all ready exist, a UPS with a small gas turbine generator. Although if they do I doubt they come in at a similar size to a 600 watt UPS roughly two 6-packs of 375ml cans length wise.
--Rod.H