Naturally Aspirated Ribbon Burner. Photo heavy.
I haven't talked about this little project in any depth though I've mentioned it to a few folks. After reading posts by folk here who have made and use ribbon burners I started looking into them a bit more. I like the idea of more even heat and quieter. What had me baffled is all the talk about needing a high pressure blower and looked more. I downloaded the ribbon burner plans Wayne has posted on his site and ran into the high pressure thing again.
The only reason the device would actually
OK, Update time.
Initial testing with V2 (27 x 5mm holes) was much better, running through a rich to lean sweep very cleanly.
Turning up the pressure caused slight lifting of a corner flame, before it blew out, but the rest of the centre flames were steady, and I couldn't get it to flash back into the plenum as before. Result!
So I thought I'd check its adjustability in the forge.
I modified the forge design so that the sides of the IFBs nearest to the burner were slope