Kirby and the Vibrant Curse Switch is a popular video game that was released for the Nintendo Switch console. The game features Kirby, a small pink puffball with the ability to inhale enemies and take on their abilities. In this installment, Kirby finds himself in a strange world where colors are disappearing. The vibrant curse switch has been activated, causing everything to become monochrome and dull. It is up to Kirby to restore color to the world and defeat the curse. The gameplay of Kirby and the Vibrant Curse Switch is similar to other Kirby games, with players controlling Kirby as he navigates through different levels.
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Second, I was just thinking if you had the exhaust of the First pocket rocket going up and into a second barrel directly over head, the second barrel could have a supply tube that went most of the way to the top of the second barrel, exactly like an upside down Pocket Rocket, The discharge could be feed from the now bottom of the second barrel directly into your Wall Thimble, this would create one of those bells that Max is so in love with. Two things, One, if you do give up on your Pocket Rocket in its present configuration, you might try hooking it up outside to see just how clean the exhaust is on that bad boy, I think that you will be surprised, It just comes down to the same thing exactly as you are trying to do with the horizontal pipe on your Rocket, you are still missing out on heat as much of it is going up the chimney.
The gameplay of Kirby and the Vibrant Curse Switch is similar to other Kirby games, with players controlling Kirby as he navigates through different levels. Kirby can still inhale enemies and gain their abilities, which is important for overcoming obstacles and defeating bosses. However, in this game, Kirby also has the ability to switch between different vibrant colors, which is necessary for restoring color to the world.
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Just put this pocket rocket together in the living-room:
I'm afraid a lot of the heat might just go out the stack (it's hooked up to the existing, insulated chimney for the wood-stove). I was going to cob the barrel today.
It burns like crazy. But the barrel doesn't get as hot as I expected, and it takes some time to heat up. I'm wondering if another "heat cache" barrel up on the stack might work before exiting the exhaust.
gardener Posts: 3461 Location: Southern alps, on the French side of the french /italian border 5000ft elevation Number of slices to send: Optional 'thank-you' note:You're in for a bell!
Satamax Antone wrote: So, Mike, a bell can store heat for some time, even if there's barely any mass. Not long, but two or three hours is not out of the question.
If you have a massonry wall in the house, you could heat it with one side of the bell. If made square like old home heating fuel tanks, or agricultural fuel tanks.
Here you can see the double barrel bell on Peter van den Berg horizontal batch rocket.
May be you could make something like this. Two stacked barrels on your rocket. No worries about the barrel gap then. Plus two stacked barrels, like this, aside the rocket, aranged as a bell. Vertical bell, with intake and exhaust at the bottom, and which would store and extract heat from the flue gasses. Then, you could use a little mass around the second set of barrels, to keep warmth a smidge more.
Myself, i'm on the track of using square tanks, and covering theses with bricks, dry stacked. Whenever i can find tanks which i like.
pollinator Posts: 4154 Location: Northern New York Zone4-5 the OUTER 'RONDACs percip 36'' Number of slices to send: Optional 'thank-you' note:Jeff Rychwa : Yes a lot of heat will go up the chimney and another barrel piped the same way with an interior pipe going almost all the way through,
and then taking the cooler gasses of of the bottom (think your ist pocket rocket turned upside down, will make one of Max's bells.
Two things, need to suspend the barrel with something like aircraft cable, and you will probably need a good T to go into yourWall thimble, with a
removable cap and you may need to prime or warm your stove pipe at that location to get it to Draw ! You will also need a lot of fans to drive all
the hot air that has stratified up by the ceiling !
You need to go to richsoil.com and click on Rocket mass heaters, and learn to burn the paint off of the barrels before you bring them into the house,
You get picked on because other people will see your barrel and think that they to can skip this step! Otherwise a great job, For The Good Of the Craft!
Think like Fire, Flow like a Gas, Don't be the Marshmallow ! As always, your questions, and comments are solicited and are Welcome! PYRO big AL!
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Jeff Rychwa Posts: 39 Location: NH Number of slices to send: Optional 'thank-you' note:I totally agree; I deserve to get picked on. I do know better. Satamax Antone gardener Posts: 3461 Location: Southern alps, on the French side of the french /italian border 5000ft elevation Number of slices to send: Optional 'thank-you' note:
Jeff, with what you have, i'd try something like this.
I would line the inside of the pocket rocket you've made with insulation and firebricks. To get a smidge of mass and durability. And make the bell as shown, with your original tube in it.
Filename: pocketrocketbell.skp File size: 244 Kbytes allen lumley pollinator Posts: 4154 Location: Northern New York Zone4-5 the OUTER 'RONDACs percip 36'' Number of slices to send: Optional 'thank-you' note:Jeff Rychwa : You would make our host here at Permies.com and richsoil.com very happy if you would take the cast Iron skillets off of the wall and use them,
He has the best video of how to season ,use, and take care of Cast Iron/Steel Skillets I have ever seen, done his way they are truly stick-less fry pans that
last for generations ! For the good of the craft ! Big AL !
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Jeff Rychwa Posts: 39 Location: NH Number of slices to send: Optional 'thank-you' note:Thank you, folks.
I have belt-sanded the paint off the drum. Rather than open it up to install mass, I'm going to cob the entire outside of the unit.
I can't open the skp. file, but I'm very curious to see the content.
I'm also curious to the effect of running the exhaust right off the main unit to the "bell" barrel, but using the bell AS the pipe, rather than running a pipe through it. It seems like the barrel would just load right up with heat (and exhaust), but then force it downward through another exit pipe, until it finally reaches the external exhaust from the house. In other words: why run pipe through the bell rather than running pipe TO the bell, then FROM the bell at the other end?
My god, this question is so simple, but I keep making it unclear. Would the barrel transfer more heat to the room if it was filled to its volume with the forced heat, rather than being filled with radiant heat off of a pipe running through it?
The frying pans, and the dutch oven certainly do get use. My pop is more of a "pioneering" guy, while I'm the "tribal culture" guy, so we trade skills--and recipes--frequently.
Posts: 245 Location: near Houston, TX; zone 8b Number of slices to send: Optional 'thank-you' note:In other words: why run pipe through the bell rather than running pipe TO the bell, then FROM the bell at the other end?
Why indeed? I don't think there is a reason to put pipe in the bell, you are just inhibiting the free flow of gases. Lining one or both of them with fireclay bricks would be good. It would take longer to heat up, but also longer to cool down than if you were only heating the metal.
Posts: 17 Number of slices to send: Optional 'thank-you' note:Jeff Rychwa, how is the tubing arranged inside the barrel? Is it one continuous "U"-tube? If so, how do you plan to clean out the ash? Shop vac?
Jeff Rychwa Posts: 39 Location: NH Number of slices to send: Optional 'thank-you' note:It's a stack of 6" that goes from the top of the barrel to the exit, and a 24" piece of 8" that drops into the barrel from the top. The 6" is attached with a transition that is screwed-in to the top of the barrel over the hole I made. The 6" doesn't go into the barrel at all. The 8" is pressure fit, so that it is about 1 1/2" off the inside barrel floor. It goes like crazy, but a lot of heat is lost. I can put 3-4' pieces of branches in there and keep it going, but if the wood is slightly wet, it doesn't heat well. I have to supplement with cardboard or paper bags to get the burn temp way up, then it seems to maintain it for a while.
Mike Kelly Posts: 17 Number of slices to send: Optional 'thank-you' note:Someone more knowledgable can chime in, but can you try extending the 6-inch tubing down the barrel to within 4-6 inches of the barrel bottom? This way the hot gases will be forced to rise to the top of the barrel and then cool and go down and enter the exhaust/chimney. I don't know if this will actually work and provide enough draft but it could.
Mike Kelly : If you go to - ' first try Pocket Rocket( Rocket Stoves Forum at Permies) ' - There are some Excellent Step by step pictures, The stove pipe that goes down inside the
barrel will burn out first so you may want to make it so that you can easily replace the last 4'', heavy gage black stove pipe or some fabricated stainless would work best here .
This unit is best operated out-of-doors, as much heat goes up the chimney, If left in one spot to long it will set fire to the blacktop as the bottom of the barrel glows Cherry Red Hot !
Inside installation is problematical, due to high levels of radiated heat, Dry stacking bricks completely around this unit will cause the heat absorbed by the bricks to be re-radiated at
a lower Temperature, Its one great advantage is the long lengths of wood that it will take !
It is very popular with Doomsday Preppers, Zombi hunters, People on picket lines, and Ice fishers ! Hope this helps, and is timely, For the good of the Crafts !
Think like Fire, Flow like a Gas, Don't be the Marshmallow ! As always your questions and comments are solicited and Welcome ! PYRO - Logically Big AL !
Late note : I just saw your sketch, the traditionally short length on the exhaust helps keep the supply tube cool enough ,so that only the tips of the wood at the bottom of the barrel
are burning, If enough heat is stored within the barrel the supply tube will get red hot and as the rest of the wood in the supply tube catches on fire we will have lots of smoke back .
However, if you made up a kind of reverse flow Insulated Heat Riser to line the outside of your Feed Tube- so that the insulation is protected from physical contact
with the wood being dropped down your supply tube, it seems to be you could have it both ways- We could call it the Kelly stand on your head heat riser, and the whole improved
Pocket Rocket A Kellys Caldron to separate it from the Kelly Kettle, which actually does hold Water ! Big AL
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Jeff Rychwa Posts: 39 Location: NH Number of slices to send: Optional 'thank-you' note:I guess the next thing to do is decide whether I want to keep the Pocket Rocket in the living-room with more of the barrel exposed, or turn the woodstove into a rocket burner.
That woodstove, I could get to heat this house (1300 sq') within a couple of hours from below 50 dF to 75 dF. The Pocket Rocket isn't doing so well with the radiant heat. I get it blazing with cardboard, which gets the wood going well, but the heat off the barrel is rapid, lasting only minutes, and the wood doesn't maintain the heat. The intensity of the burn is great, but the heat isn't there. I can't get this place over 64 dF, and that's when it's around 60 dF outside. That's not good.
I'm wondering, if I moved the 400-500 lb. stove back into place (putting the Pocket Rocket downstairs for experimentation with a bell system later), if I'd be able to turn it into a more efficient rocket stove with an adjustment (feed tube) at the door, and then still get the high radiant heat results with a more complete, thus clean, burn.
Lots of work, a little late in the year, but boy is this fun.
Mike Kelly Posts: 17 Number of slices to send: Optional 'thank-you' note:Maybe something like this then?
Draft1-2.jpg Insulated feed tube, insulated base Jeff Rychwa Posts: 39 Location: NH Number of slices to send: Optional 'thank-you' note:So, this is what I'm thinking:
I wonder how much heat is lost without the bell system, and how much is recovered with it. In other words: If the pocket rocket loses 70% of the heat generated, even at a more efficient burn, and the bell recovers 50% of that lost heat, then the system is retaining 80% of the heat generated INSIDE the house for a more complete burn, which makes this worth it and cost effective.
But, if it's losing 70% (just for the sake of discussion), and the bell system only recovers 20% of that lost, then it's retaining 50% of the heat generated, at a better burn than a woodstove, but still losing too much heat, whereas the woodstove retains more heat at a less efficient burn.
Satamax Antone gardener Posts: 3461 Location: Southern alps, on the French side of the french /italian border 5000ft elevation Number of slices to send: Optional 'thank-you' note:allen lumley pollinator Posts: 4154 Location: Northern New York Zone4-5 the OUTER 'RONDACs percip 36'' Number of slices to send: Optional 'thank-you' note:
Mike Kelly : Great, exactly what I was saying, I think, that The barrel should be set in wet clay slip perlite for maximum weight dis tribulation and some brick to catch an
occasional edge of the barrel.
Any of the aluminum reflecting barriers work best if they are reflecting into an air space,and are marginally more effective if they have an air gap behind them, all i would change
would be to go back to Ianto Evans' original practice and use an Elmers glue to glue a heavy weight kitchen grade aluminum foil Directly to the floor !
Jeff Rychwa : Even with the improved version of the pocket rocket -the Kelly Cauldron, I was afraid that it would send most of the heat up the chimney, you are moving a
tremendous amount of air through it and it is gulping some of the warmest air at waist high rather than off of the floor
Once some friends of mine were going to take a 50'' x 50'' grate that set over an old coal furnace that was converted to oil, sink a Pocket rocket directly into the center, so the
Feed Tube was flush with the floor, and be able to walk over and drop in a 4 foot piece of fire wood directly into the Feed Tube. Their landlord heard about that plan and found
new tenants !
Two things, One, if you do give up on your Pocket Rocket in its present configuration, you might try hooking it up outside to see just how clean the exhaust is on that bad boy,
I think that you will be surprised, It just comes down to the same thing exactly as you are trying to do with the horizontal pipe on your Rocket, you are still missing out on heat
as much of it is going up the chimney
The time that any of the Rocket Stoves are the most efficient is when they are not running, with no air escaping out the chimney compared to any other stove/heater there is no
corresponding infiltration of cold air to cool the house down, and cause the heater to $witch on !
Second, I was just thinking if you had the exhaust of the First pocket rocket going up and into a second barrel directly over head, the second barrel could have a supply tube that
went most of the way to the top of the second barrel, exactly like an upside down Pocket Rocket, The discharge could be feed from the (now) bottom of the second barrel directly
into your Wall Thimble, this would create one of those bells that Max is so in love with !
We could call it Kelly's Coupled Cauldrons ! Nothing ventured, noting gained ! Big AL
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Each color has its own unique abilities and can be used to solve puzzles and progress through the game. The graphics of Kirby and the Vibrant Curse Switch are vibrant and colorful, especially when Kirby switches to a specific color. This adds to the overall charm of the game and makes it visually appealing to players. The music is also catchy and upbeat, adding to the overall enjoyment of the game. Overall, Kirby and the Vibrant Curse Switch is a fun and visually stunning game. It combines classic Kirby gameplay with a unique color-switching mechanic, creating a fresh and exciting experience for players. Whether you're a fan of the Kirby series or just looking for a fun platforming game, Kirby and the Vibrant Curse Switch is definitely worth a try..
Reviews for "The addictive gameplay of Kirby and the vibrant curse on the Nintendo Switch"
1. Emily - 2/5 stars - I was really disappointed with "Kirby and the Vibrant Curse Switch". I found the game to be repetitive and unengaging. The levels lacked creativity and originality, and the gameplay mechanics felt clunky and unresponsive. Additionally, the graphics and visuals were underwhelming, with a lack of attention to detail. Overall, I felt bored and uninterested throughout my playthrough, and I wouldn't recommend this game to others.
2. Jake - 1/5 stars - "Kirby and the Vibrant Curse Switch" was a complete letdown for me. The levels felt too easy and lacked any real challenge. The game also had a lackluster story, and the characters were forgettable. The controls were not intuitive, and I found myself often frustrated and struggling to perform basic actions. On top of all that, the game felt rushed and unfinished, with numerous bugs and glitches. I regret wasting my money on this title and would advise others to stay away from it.
3. Sarah - 2/5 stars - I had high hopes for "Kirby and the Vibrant Curse Switch", but unfortunately, it fell short of my expectations. The gameplay was repetitive, and the level design lacked depth. The game also lacked a compelling story to keep me engaged. The visuals were decent, but nothing stood out as particularly impressive. Overall, "Kirby and the Vibrant Curse Switch" was a forgettable gaming experience that I wouldn't recommend to fans of the Kirby series or platformer enthusiasts.