[Vwdiesel] Sqirrely Gensets ???

[Shirley, Mark R]

Here's a site that has laws by state on Netmetering.

http://www.eren.doe.gov/greenpower/netmetering/index.shtml

Note not all states allow this now.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Harmon Seaver [mailto:hseaver at cybershamanix.com]
> Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2003 5:25 PM
> To: Roger Brown
> Cc: vwdiesel at vwfans.com
> Subject: Re: [Vwdiesel] Sqirrely Gensets ??? LOL----WOW.
>
>
> 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?
>
> --
> Harmon Seaver
> CyberShamanix
> http://www.cybershamanix.com
>
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