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The rods that pass through the displacer are not attached to anything (machined into the heat sinks); there is a 2/8" gap between the rods on the cold side and hot side. The displacer is only in contact with the control rod and makes no contact with anything else inside the chamber. The render ...

I've been working on designing a Stirling engine over the last couple of days and I am having trouble figuring out a few things. After plugging in a series of temp differentials and conceptualizing in my head it seems to me that optimal stroke and bottom dead center are variables of RPM, hot and col...