On Sun, 07 Jun 2009 03:05:35 +0000, Larry wrote:

Bruce in alaska wrote in news:fast-F7AA96.09462206062009
:

Looks a lot like my Fairbanks/Morse 45B.... Turns 1200 Rpm with a 3:1
up-speed Belt & Pulley, Off the PTO Clutch, that drives a 3Kw 3600 Rpm
Genend. Runs all day on a Quart of #2 Diesel. Currently on
semi-permanent Loan to a Close Neighbor (close = 10 Sq Miles) and he
runs his whole Outfit off it, during the summers.



http://www.otherpower.com/steamengine.shtml

The Other Power boys in the mountains have gensets that will run on about
anything that burns...(c;

http://www.otherpower.com/steamengine.shtml

http://www.otherpower.com/listeraxialflux.shtml
The Listeroid model.


Someone with a cruising sailboat they can drag a shaft behind needs to
really take a close look at the Otherpower axial alternators that make
incredible power on a slow turning wind machine....converted to be run off
a screw on a shaft behind their boat...or as a modified wind machine for
boat use. These are just about the simplest electric machines I've ever
encountered....and SO powerful!...KILOWATTS of multiphase AC to rectify
into house battery boilers....

http://www.otherpower.com/otherpower_experiments.html
(even the hamster model..(c;])

I met a guy that had one of those towed generators. He had towed it
from Australia to Singapore, where I talked to him.

He was not a convert. He said that yes, it did make electricity but he
felt that a wind generator was a much more logical choice as the wind
generator could make electricity when you are anchored and the towed
couldn't. He also reckoned that it didn't make as much electricity as
the wind generator during a voyage as often you are traveling slower
then the wind is blowing.


Cheers,

Bruce in Bangkok
(bruceinbangkokatgmaildotcom)