Balanceing the blades has never required doing it on the generator
itself.
Only the blade assembly (hub + blades) using the supplied balancing
shaft
is necessary.

Call me confused. What "supplied balancing shaft" are you talking
about. I never received anything like that.

-- Geoff

Geoff,

You should have received a short tapered threaded shaft that is identical
to the shaft on the generator itself. You install it into the hub with the
blades attached (hub/blade assembly not installed on the generator).
Then you arrange a couple of horizontal surfaces close enough together
to allow the assembly to rest with the shaft with one end on each surface.
Two tables moved close together is what I used. That
way the hub/blades can rotate almost frictionless. Then you observe the
heavy
blade drop and incrementally remove the tape until you can give the blades
a spin and have no particular blade end up at the bottom. Take a look at the
section entitled "Rotor Balancing" in the manual. It describes the entire
process.

Doug
s/v Callista


"GeoffSchultz" wrote in message
oups.com...
Balanceing the blades has never required doing it on the generator
itself.
Only the blade assembly (hub + blades) using the supplied balancing
shaft
is necessary.

Call me confused. What "supplied balancing shaft" are you talking
about. I never received anything like that.

-- Geoff

I see one of the major problems here. I never received the "threaded,
tapered spindle." I mis-read that to be the spindle on the generator.
Believe me, I have all of my spares for the generator carefully
catalogued and stored. It never came...That would probably help big
time with the balancing problem.

-- Geoff

I'm sure you can get one from the factory or via HotWire.

Doug

"GeoffSchultz" wrote in message
ups.com...
I see one of the major problems here. I never received the "threaded,
tapered spindle." I mis-read that to be the spindle on the generator.
Believe me, I have all of my spares for the generator carefully
catalogued and stored. It never came...That would probably help big
time with the balancing problem.

-- Geoff

"Doug Dotson" dougdotson@NOSPAMcablespeedNOSPAMcom wrote in message
...
I'm sure you can get one from the factory or via HotWire.

Doug

Just a heads-up about hotwire's immediate abilities ...

They're *driving* to the Oakland (CA) show from their FL base, in their
camper with the KISS atop. They'll be out of pocket for a while until they
get back (when John can start working on our arch/solar/KISS/electrical
redesign project with me)...

L8R

Skip

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