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Here's a little gadget to restore the pulse effect of a piston engine when using a fan powered smoke unit ...

great little item ,

looks like you seperated the motor housing from the heating coil... is there a pulsing diaphragm in there?.....

No . In fact the hole system is made of a H.L. proportional smoke unit ; minus the piston ...
The smoke unit is made of the heat chamber in which I replaced the Nichrome heater element by a 14 Ohms 1 Watt ceramic wirewound resistor ; and the pumping system by a 5 Volts mini-fan ...
The pulse re generator is made of the motor and gear assembly of the same unit with an "expensive" pop bottle and other caps network ....
As you can see ; I take my recycling very seriously ....

Excellent Post Normand, Glad to see you on board as I know you have many interesting mods to share. Pm me if you require any assistance, Happy to see you posting here. Cheers Blake (Saxondog)

Im pretty interested in this idea, soon to rebuild my smoker, I was wondering if you could post some detailed pics of all the parts you mentioned?
Cheers,
Dave

[quote][Im pretty interested in this idea, soon to rebuild my smoker, I was wondering if you could post some detailed pics of all the parts you mentioned?
Cheers,
Dave/quote]

There you go ...Here's a couple of self- explanatory pics of my very high-tech re generator...
In fact ; It's so simple and cheap than I wonder why I didn't think of it before .....

NICE!!! a rotating valve!! great idea!!

Nice bit of ingenuity there, genius! I may give it a go, but gota get the smoker to smoke in the first place...first!
Cheers,
Dave

[quote][/ gota get the smoker to smoke in the first place...first!

If you plan to use half of the H.L. smoke unit to build a pulse re generator ; you might as well use the other half to make a mini smoker
Here's a few pics to show you how ....
Here's a short video to show the refilling probe ( low level indicator in action)