[Vwdiesel] Sqirrely Gensets ??? LOL----WOW.

[Harmon Seaver]

On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 11:50:15AM -0800, Roger Brown wrote:
> Harmon Seaver wrote:
> >
> >    Yes, of course, you're right and all these other people are wrong. Perhaps
> > you'd can post some evidence (other than your own say so) that these don't
> > work? And maybe you should call up the big windgenerator companies right away
> > and tell them to stop building their brushless induction generators -- because
> > they will never work.  8-)
>
> That will work as long as you have the induction motor hooked to the grid to supply the excitation current and then overdrive it
> beyond its synchronous RPM.  For a 1720 RPM motor, synch would be 1800 and you would need to turn it around 1880 RPM for full
> output.

    Right, which is the only interest I have in doing it, to sell power to the
utility. With the netmetering law in WI, I can get paid at retail rate for up to
20KWE and at 24/7 that works out to all my heat and electric free and about $15K
a year in my pocket. Minus the cost of rebuilding one or two vw rabbit engines a
year, that is. 8-)

>  You don't have much control over the alternator output either, aside from the
speed.  You need to change the rotor if
> you want to generate power stand alone in order to make it self-exciting.


   No, you just add some capaciters if you want a stand alone unit. And in my
case, I'd have that circuit with the caps standing by ready to be switched to if
the grid went down so my house would stay lit.
   Gee, is this just deja vu, or did we not just go thru this whole same
discussion about a month ago?

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Harmon Seaver
CyberShamanix
http://www.cybershamanix.com