<![CDATA[Micro Camera Shows the Workings of a Combustion Engine - Gizmodo Comments]]> http://cache.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/gizmodo.com.png <![CDATA[Micro Camera Shows the Workings of a Combustion Engine - Gizmodo Comments]]> http://gizmodo.com Thu, 08 Nov 2007 20:09:10 EST Thu, 08 Nov 2007 20:09:10 EST http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/fourstroke-action/micro-camera-shows-the-workings-of-a-combustion-engine-309138.php <![CDATA[Micro Camera Shows the Workings of a Combustion Engine]]> http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/fourstroke-action/micro-camera-shows-the-workings-of-a-combustion-engine-309138.php#c2918619 Trackback

]]> 4:309138:c2918619 Thu, 08 Nov 2007 20:09:10 EST <![CDATA[Micro Camera Shows the Workings of a Combustion Engine]]> http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/fourstroke-action/micro-camera-shows-the-workings-of-a-combustion-engine-309138.php#c2635381 Ahh the Tesla fanboys.. Most hyped vaporware of 2007. When did they push it back to, now? Sometime in 2008? Plenty of time to backpedal on the range figures..

Oh I know, it'll be the most amazing thing since the iPhone, sure sure.

Wake us up when real customers are really driving them..meantime, I'll be frothing over those flying cars.

Bad Juju

]]> 4:309138:c2635381 Thu, 11 Oct 2007 18:32:32 EDT <![CDATA[Micro Camera Shows the Workings of a Combustion Engine]]> http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/fourstroke-action/micro-camera-shows-the-workings-of-a-combustion-engine-309138.php#c2632763 @MacBandit: unless you're combusting hydrogen. It would be cool to see a video from this camera inside an engine burning hydrogen.

Fierock

]]> 4:309138:c2632763 Thu, 11 Oct 2007 15:56:26 EDT <![CDATA[Micro Camera Shows the Workings of a Combustion Engine]]> http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/fourstroke-action/micro-camera-shows-the-workings-of-a-combustion-engine-309138.php#c2625585 @andrebasso:

This could be a GM car with a "waste spark." Instead of a distributor, there's a coil pack that fires two cylinders at a time. When the cylinder on combustion fires, the cylinder on exhaust also fires. I believe the main reason is then there's fewer moving parts to break/ draw power from the engine.

Optimistic Prime

]]> 4:309138:c2625585 Thu, 11 Oct 2007 08:08:03 EDT <![CDATA[Micro Camera Shows the Workings of a Combustion Engine]]> http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/fourstroke-action/micro-camera-shows-the-workings-of-a-combustion-engine-309138.php#c2625561 It would have been cool to see the whole thing instead of the same clip over and over.

markgm

]]> 4:309138:c2625561 Thu, 11 Oct 2007 07:58:11 EDT <![CDATA[Micro Camera Shows the Workings of a Combustion Engine]]> http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/fourstroke-action/micro-camera-shows-the-workings-of-a-combustion-engine-309138.php#c2624586 @mrrobotanger:

You always fire before top dead.

MacBandit

]]> 4:309138:c2624586 Thu, 11 Oct 2007 00:15:50 EDT <![CDATA[Micro Camera Shows the Workings of a Combustion Engine]]> http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/fourstroke-action/micro-camera-shows-the-workings-of-a-combustion-engine-309138.php#c2624584 @mrrobotanger:

You always fire before top dead center.

MacBandit

]]> 4:309138:c2624584 Thu, 11 Oct 2007 00:15:00 EDT <![CDATA[Micro Camera Shows the Workings of a Combustion Engine]]> http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/fourstroke-action/micro-camera-shows-the-workings-of-a-combustion-engine-309138.php#c2624574 @Colonel35:

It's actually probably more than that because any time you have a high volume plunger pulling a substance through a smaller pipe there is a leverage ratio. You can simulate the same thing in reverse with a syringe try squeezing liquid out of a syringe the liquid sprays out at a higher velocity than the rate at which you are squeezing the syringe.

MacBandit

]]> 4:309138:c2624574 Thu, 11 Oct 2007 00:13:58 EDT <![CDATA[Micro Camera Shows the Workings of a Combustion Engine]]> http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/fourstroke-action/micro-camera-shows-the-workings-of-a-combustion-engine-309138.php#c2624538 @aec007: Please stop spouting tired untruths. Electric motors are fundamentally more efficient than blowing shit up to make heat and a little forward motion. So no matter what the power source, they're still more efficient well-to-wheel. Don't debate me, tell us where the Tesla efficiency page is wrong.

skierpage

]]> 4:309138:c2624538 Thu, 11 Oct 2007 00:07:27 EDT <![CDATA[Micro Camera Shows the Workings of a Combustion Engine]]> http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/fourstroke-action/micro-camera-shows-the-workings-of-a-combustion-engine-309138.php#c2623785 Seems like there is a lot of combustion happening on the surfaces, rather than in the middle. Seems a might wasteful.

shokk

]]> 4:309138:c2623785 Wed, 10 Oct 2007 21:54:20 EDT <![CDATA[Micro Camera Shows the Workings of a Combustion Engine]]> http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/fourstroke-action/micro-camera-shows-the-workings-of-a-combustion-engine-309138.php#c2623471 They should have used a micro tripod.

jwardell

]]> 4:309138:c2623471 Wed, 10 Oct 2007 21:07:13 EDT <![CDATA[Micro Camera Shows the Workings of a Combustion Engine]]> http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/fourstroke-action/micro-camera-shows-the-workings-of-a-combustion-engine-309138.php#c2622501 i for one, dont want to believe that the dinosaurs died for nothing

fill'er up!!!!!!!!

godwhacker

]]> 4:309138:c2622501 Wed, 10 Oct 2007 19:19:05 EDT <![CDATA[Micro Camera Shows the Workings of a Combustion Engine]]> http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/fourstroke-action/micro-camera-shows-the-workings-of-a-combustion-engine-309138.php#c2622287 Wow a camera being in a heart of a engine is amazing!

trailingedge

]]> 4:309138:c2622287 Wed, 10 Oct 2007 18:58:14 EDT <![CDATA[Micro Camera Shows the Workings of a Combustion Engine]]> http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/fourstroke-action/micro-camera-shows-the-workings-of-a-combustion-engine-309138.php#c2622065 Where's the Blow? Suck, squeeze, bang but no blow. Damn gypped again.

skurtis.1

]]> 4:309138:c2622065 Wed, 10 Oct 2007 18:36:50 EDT <![CDATA[Micro Camera Shows the Workings of a Combustion Engine]]> http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/fourstroke-action/micro-camera-shows-the-workings-of-a-combustion-engine-309138.php#c2621119 Seems like the plug is firing a bit early. Not good.

mrrobotanger

]]> 4:309138:c2621119 Wed, 10 Oct 2007 17:15:48 EDT <![CDATA[Micro Camera Shows the Workings of a Combustion Engine]]> http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/fourstroke-action/micro-camera-shows-the-workings-of-a-combustion-engine-309138.php#c2620843 Interesting. Also, impressive camera... I want one.

Bokusatsu_Tenshi

]]> 4:309138:c2620843 Wed, 10 Oct 2007 16:56:09 EDT <![CDATA[Micro Camera Shows the Workings of a Combustion Engine]]> http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/fourstroke-action/micro-camera-shows-the-workings-of-a-combustion-engine-309138.php#c2620126 @honozooloo:
I second your motion... Electric cars are only as efficient as the plant that generate the power.

@zarchitect:
Power in the USA is about 80% fossil fuel generated from coal or gas turbines.

Did you know that if 10% of the Florida population bought plug-in electric vehicles they would collapse the electrical grid in the state?

Ah... so hybrids IS the only way to get around in a greener way... still burning fossil fuel... just like in the video above.



aec007

]]> 4:309138:c2620126 Wed, 10 Oct 2007 16:15:40 EDT <![CDATA[Micro Camera Shows the Workings of a Combustion Engine]]> http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/fourstroke-action/micro-camera-shows-the-workings-of-a-combustion-engine-309138.php#c2619885 Humm..are you sure that's not a rectal cam after someone had some bad Mexican?

ChopSue-Me

]]> 4:309138:c2619885 Wed, 10 Oct 2007 16:00:39 EDT <![CDATA[Micro Camera Shows the Workings of a Combustion Engine]]> http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/fourstroke-action/micro-camera-shows-the-workings-of-a-combustion-engine-309138.php#c2619061 I think this engine-thingy is the greatest advancement mankind has ever made, except for scrolling voicemail messages on the JeebusPhone.

ninjagin

]]> 4:309138:c2619061 Wed, 10 Oct 2007 15:12:20 EDT <![CDATA[Micro Camera Shows the Workings of a Combustion Engine]]> http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/fourstroke-action/micro-camera-shows-the-workings-of-a-combustion-engine-309138.php#c2618979 ahh, internal combustion. 100+ years and counting. :)

kevjohn

]]> 4:309138:c2618979 Wed, 10 Oct 2007 15:07:30 EDT <![CDATA[Micro Camera Shows the Workings of a Combustion Engine]]> http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/fourstroke-action/micro-camera-shows-the-workings-of-a-combustion-engine-309138.php#c2618517 Pretty much the coolest thing ever

PJ_the_jackass

]]> 4:309138:c2618517 Wed, 10 Oct 2007 14:40:24 EDT <![CDATA[Micro Camera Shows the Workings of a Combustion Engine]]> http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/fourstroke-action/micro-camera-shows-the-workings-of-a-combustion-engine-309138.php#c2618281 Exactly@Aaron Martin-Colby:

Jetleaf

]]> 4:309138:c2618281 Wed, 10 Oct 2007 14:25:23 EDT <![CDATA[Micro Camera Shows the Workings of a Combustion Engine]]> http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/fourstroke-action/micro-camera-shows-the-workings-of-a-combustion-engine-309138.php#c2617851 Stupid Colonoscopies.

strider_mt2k

]]> 4:309138:c2617851 Wed, 10 Oct 2007 13:59:38 EDT <![CDATA[Micro Camera Shows the Workings of a Combustion Engine]]> http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/fourstroke-action/micro-camera-shows-the-workings-of-a-combustion-engine-309138.php#c2617686 @zarchitect: Only someone who has no understanding of modern combustion engines would call them "archaic." They are hardly primitive, nor are they an "old technology." And exactly how does a slow-motion VIDEO demonstrate the "waste and inefficiency" you are referring to? Were you counting the droplets of non-combusted fuel after the exhaust valve opened up?

I'm not saying that electric cars aren't in some ways better for the environment...but the environmental impact of Li-Ion/NiCAD/lead-acid batteries (which must be replaced every so often), the fact that the Teslas TIRES are still fossil fuel-based, and the fact that electric cars still consume electricity that was at least in part generated by fossil fuel-dependent power plants means that they are not completely carbon neutral machines either.

We can't all drive Teslas and most of us would not want to (well, everyday at least). Not practical. And besides, if electric cars were cheaper, better for the environment, more reliable, and more desireable for the general public, don't you think manufacturers would already be selling us electric cars?

honozooloo

]]> 4:309138:c2617686 Wed, 10 Oct 2007 13:49:52 EDT <![CDATA[Micro Camera Shows the Workings of a Combustion Engine]]> http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/fourstroke-action/micro-camera-shows-the-workings-of-a-combustion-engine-309138.php#c2617665 Looks like laporoscopic surgery...gone terribly, terribly wrong....on a robot.

Geisrud

]]> 4:309138:c2617665 Wed, 10 Oct 2007 13:48:28 EDT <![CDATA[Micro Camera Shows the Workings of a Combustion Engine]]> http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/fourstroke-action/micro-camera-shows-the-workings-of-a-combustion-engine-309138.php#c2617633 It just goes to show that there not a huge ball of fire in the cylinder during ignition. I would have enjoyed seeing all four strokes but I can't complain having seen the part that really matters.

TheAstronot

]]> 4:309138:c2617633 Wed, 10 Oct 2007 13:46:09 EDT <![CDATA[Micro Camera Shows the Workings of a Combustion Engine]]> http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/fourstroke-action/micro-camera-shows-the-workings-of-a-combustion-engine-309138.php#c2617457 A lot of after burn on the valve. Leaky Valve?

thebear91

]]> 4:309138:c2617457 Wed, 10 Oct 2007 13:32:35 EDT <![CDATA[Micro Camera Shows the Workings of a Combustion Engine]]> http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/fourstroke-action/micro-camera-shows-the-workings-of-a-combustion-engine-309138.php#c2617429 4 strokes are 2 strokes too many.

Brookespeed

]]> 4:309138:c2617429 Wed, 10 Oct 2007 13:30:10 EDT <![CDATA[Micro Camera Shows the Workings of a Combustion Engine]]> http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/fourstroke-action/micro-camera-shows-the-workings-of-a-combustion-engine-309138.php#c2616915 This is living proof what horrible system this really is for modern transport... (thank you for the footage!!!) the waste and inefficiency is tremendous! Very archaic! Shove a new body around it every 4 years and you tend to forget the middle-ages of technology inside it. 100+ years later and it's the same frickin' thing... c'mon! Aren't we done with dyno-juice... shove a camera in Tesla and see (and smell) the difference!

zarchitect

]]> 4:309138:c2616915 Wed, 10 Oct 2007 12:57:41 EDT <![CDATA[Micro Camera Shows the Workings of a Combustion Engine]]> http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/fourstroke-action/micro-camera-shows-the-workings-of-a-combustion-engine-309138.php#c2616714 "The Miracle of Life." Steampunk Edition.

andrebasso

]]> 4:309138:c2616714 Wed, 10 Oct 2007 12:43:46 EDT <![CDATA[Micro Camera Shows the Workings of a Combustion Engine]]> http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/fourstroke-action/micro-camera-shows-the-workings-of-a-combustion-engine-309138.php#c2616698 @scoobyonline2000: Depends on the stroke and engine speed. At 6000 RPM on a Honda Accord 99mm stroke four-banger, the pistons are averaging about 65ft/s. F1 engines have much shorter strokes (about 40mm) but rev much faster (19000RPM), at which point they're averaging 83ft/s.

However, keep in mind that this is average speed, since the pistons push and pull on a crankshaft that is constantly rotating, hence they need to slow down, reverse direction, and speed up, over and over. Peak speed (which is also the speed at which the air is coming in and exhausted out) is about 1.6:1 to the average speed, or 104ft/s in our Accord or 133ft/s in the Schumacher's F1.

Colonel35

]]> 4:309138:c2616698 Wed, 10 Oct 2007 12:42:22 EDT <![CDATA[Micro Camera Shows the Workings of a Combustion Engine]]> http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/fourstroke-action/micro-camera-shows-the-workings-of-a-combustion-engine-309138.php#c2616666 Psssssssh. I wanna see this on a rotary engine instead!

Gujustud

]]> 4:309138:c2616666 Wed, 10 Oct 2007 12:40:11 EDT <![CDATA[Micro Camera Shows the Workings of a Combustion Engine]]> http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/fourstroke-action/micro-camera-shows-the-workings-of-a-combustion-engine-309138.php#c2616626 [quote]Suck, Squeeze, Bang, Blow![/quote]
Did you really just say that?! =-D
(*can't get thoughts out of his mind*)

BigDanInTX

]]> 4:309138:c2616626 Wed, 10 Oct 2007 12:36:53 EDT <![CDATA[Micro Camera Shows the Workings of a Combustion Engine]]> http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/fourstroke-action/micro-camera-shows-the-workings-of-a-combustion-engine-309138.php#c2616304 farkin' amazing.

drive90

]]> 4:309138:c2616304 Wed, 10 Oct 2007 12:15:22 EDT <![CDATA[Micro Camera Shows the Workings of a Combustion Engine]]> http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/fourstroke-action/micro-camera-shows-the-workings-of-a-combustion-engine-309138.php#c2616212 if they were able to measure the speed of the air or sucktion, how fast do you guys think it would be traveling.

scoobyonline2000

]]> 4:309138:c2616212 Wed, 10 Oct 2007 12:08:22 EDT <![CDATA[Micro Camera Shows the Workings of a Combustion Engine]]> http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/fourstroke-action/micro-camera-shows-the-workings-of-a-combustion-engine-309138.php#c2616113 So awesome. This may be the first of its kind in history....maybe.

SpaceBoy33

]]> 4:309138:c2616113 Wed, 10 Oct 2007 12:01:49 EDT <![CDATA[Micro Camera Shows the Workings of a Combustion Engine]]> http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/fourstroke-action/micro-camera-shows-the-workings-of-a-combustion-engine-309138.php#c2616036 @GIZMODOHOMEPAGE
"Now if they could just show the inner workings of a female brain."

I was with you right up to that brain part, I was going another direction with it.

DodgerBlues

]]> 4:309138:c2616036 Wed, 10 Oct 2007 11:56:11 EDT <![CDATA[Micro Camera Shows the Workings of a Combustion Engine]]> http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/fourstroke-action/micro-camera-shows-the-workings-of-a-combustion-engine-309138.php#c2615861 Now if they could just show the inner workings of a female brain.

gizmodohomepage

]]> 4:309138:c2615861 Wed, 10 Oct 2007 11:42:23 EDT <![CDATA[Micro Camera Shows the Workings of a Combustion Engine]]> http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/fourstroke-action/micro-camera-shows-the-workings-of-a-combustion-engine-309138.php#c2615818 Why does it keep glitching just after the exhaust stroke opens? I wanted to see the overlap.

Aaron Martin-Colby

]]> 4:309138:c2615818 Wed, 10 Oct 2007 11:39:09 EDT <![CDATA[Micro Camera Shows the Workings of a Combustion Engine]]> http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/fourstroke-action/micro-camera-shows-the-workings-of-a-combustion-engine-309138.php#c2615538 Amazing, really.

Serolf Divad

]]> 4:309138:c2615538 Wed, 10 Oct 2007 11:18:20 EDT <![CDATA[Micro Camera Shows the Workings of a Combustion Engine]]> http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/fourstroke-action/micro-camera-shows-the-workings-of-a-combustion-engine-309138.php#c2615534 camera burned up upon re-entry. a lot of good men were lost.

desimal

]]> 4:309138:c2615534 Wed, 10 Oct 2007 11:18:09 EDT <![CDATA[Micro Camera Shows the Workings of a Combustion Engine]]> http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/fourstroke-action/micro-camera-shows-the-workings-of-a-combustion-engine-309138.php#c2615518 Maybe they could only get a short length of footage because of the high resolution? I could even see the spark plug fire. that's freakin cool!

tupark

]]> 4:309138:c2615518 Wed, 10 Oct 2007 11:16:51 EDT <![CDATA[Micro Camera Shows the Workings of a Combustion Engine]]> http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/fourstroke-action/micro-camera-shows-the-workings-of-a-combustion-engine-309138.php#c2615484 What's most interesting is how the spark plug actually seems to be firing multiple times when shown at a high FPS.

andrebasso

]]> 4:309138:c2615484 Wed, 10 Oct 2007 11:13:37 EDT <![CDATA[Micro Camera Shows the Workings of a Combustion Engine]]> http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/fourstroke-action/micro-camera-shows-the-workings-of-a-combustion-engine-309138.php#c2615471 they need the whole clip it just doesn't look right cut up like that

demonwolf

]]> 4:309138:c2615471 Wed, 10 Oct 2007 11:12:44 EDT <![CDATA[Micro Camera Shows the Workings of a Combustion Engine]]> http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/fourstroke-action/micro-camera-shows-the-workings-of-a-combustion-engine-309138.php#c2615413 It just keeps doing the same thing, over and over and over...

liquidsoapdispenser

]]> 4:309138:c2615413 Wed, 10 Oct 2007 11:07:27 EDT <![CDATA[Micro Camera Shows the Workings of a Combustion Engine]]> http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/fourstroke-action/micro-camera-shows-the-workings-of-a-combustion-engine-309138.php#c2615354 except that the video doesn't show all 4 strokes of the engine. they clip and repeat it before the piston comes up for the exhaust stroke. I guess you can infer what happens but if you're going to all the trouble to film such a thing, you might as well release the whole clip right?

DeeJayQueue

]]> 4:309138:c2615354 Wed, 10 Oct 2007 11:02:25 EDT <![CDATA[Micro Camera Shows the Workings of a Combustion Engine]]> http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/fourstroke-action/micro-camera-shows-the-workings-of-a-combustion-engine-309138.php#c2615353 shit, I blinked. what happened?

discounteggroll

]]> 4:309138:c2615353 Wed, 10 Oct 2007 11:02:22 EDT <![CDATA[Micro Camera Shows the Workings of a Combustion Engine]]> http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/fourstroke-action/micro-camera-shows-the-workings-of-a-combustion-engine-309138.php#c2615316 That is pretty freakin cool, if you ask me (which you didn't). I have been looking into some of the mystery of engine performance etc. and was wondering what a "flame front" would look like and how valve timing and overlap look in action. To me that is like peeking into the inner workings of the cosmos. Thanks!

SkyLab

]]> 4:309138:c2615316 Wed, 10 Oct 2007 10:59:50 EDT <![CDATA[Micro Camera Shows the Workings of a Combustion Engine]]> http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/fourstroke-action/micro-camera-shows-the-workings-of-a-combustion-engine-309138.php#c2615254 What she said...

strider_mt2k

]]> 4:309138:c2615254 Wed, 10 Oct 2007 10:55:51 EDT <![CDATA[Micro Camera Shows the Workings of a Combustion Engine]]> http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/fourstroke-action/micro-camera-shows-the-workings-of-a-combustion-engine-309138.php#c2615213 and i thought sonograms were freaky...

cky80

]]> 4:309138:c2615213 Wed, 10 Oct 2007 10:53:33 EDT <![CDATA[Micro Camera Shows the Workings of a Combustion Engine]]> http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/fourstroke-action/micro-camera-shows-the-workings-of-a-combustion-engine-309138.php#c2615159 I think it moved.

Mayfield

]]> 4:309138:c2615159 Wed, 10 Oct 2007 10:50:23 EDT <![CDATA[Micro Camera Shows the Workings of a Combustion Engine]]> http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/fourstroke-action/micro-camera-shows-the-workings-of-a-combustion-engine-309138.php#c2615018 Thats awesome....

kchilaka

]]> 4:309138:c2615018 Wed, 10 Oct 2007 10:39:34 EDT