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RE: Failover generators
- Subject: RE: Failover generators
- From: "Phil Harris" <phil@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2006 10:38:02 +0100
> 'wonder if adapting a modern small car engine would be a
> viable route ... driving a big-car alternator, say ... their
> more sosphisticated control systems might be helpful ... ???
>
> Chris
Two immediate thoughts here...
1) A "big car alternator" is perhaps 80A - that's only 1kW or so
of power
which isn't really a lot and it's at 12v so you are looking at pretty hefty
cabling unless you get it to 240v AC pretty quickly.
2) Although a Micra might sound nice and quiet at tickover, you just stand
beside one at 5,000rpm with the engine under load - you would *NOT* want
that outside your house for long.
Phil
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