Old generator

[James]

This may be coming up as free to good home.

 

[DPG]

You might want to let the guy with the Colchester lathe know. Then he can get on with building an extension for it!

 

[Lucien Nunes]

I dont think the 200bhp 12-litre supercharged C6 engine would be particularly happy in the long term if the hardest it has to work is powering a 5hp centre lathe. Fuel consumption figures might not be attractive for that duty either.

 

[freddo]

Shame it's not running, would have been nice to see a video!

 

[DPG]

I dont think the 200bhp 12-litre supercharged C6 engine would be particularly happy in the long term if the hardest it has to work is powering a 5hp centre lathe. Fuel consumption figures might not be attractive for that duty either.

Put a nice big dummy resistor in parallel with it to keep the load up.

And a nice big moving magnet analogue ammeter as well. With brass terminals.

Oohhhh. I'm off for a sit down.

 

[James]

Put a nice big dummy resistor in parallel with it to keep the load up.

And a nice big moving magnet analogue ammeter as well. With brass terminals.

Oohhhh. I'm off for a sit down.

Would certainly keep the workshop warm n the winter!

 

[Simon47]

How much can you get for STOR these days ? Give it a few more years, could be useful to run the whole street when we run out of lecky ?

(Yes I know it's not possible to do that)

 

[freddo]

Hope someone makes good use of it, would be a shame to see it scrapped, diesel generators are so cool.

Reminds me of the last old generator we played with, it hadn't been run since the company went bust 6 months previous. A fairly chunky set - 650kVA It started ok once the fuel had got to the injectors and ran fine for 30 seconds, then it started to overspeed... No idea how fast it was going as the needles pegged on the voltage and frequency meters, loud AF it was. It behaved itself on the second start, though I wouldn't want to connect a load to it until the issue was sorted. Unfortunately we only had the cameras running on the second start.

 

[James]

I am half considering moving it to my workshop and rebuilding it back to A1 standard.

 

[Rockingit]

I could be interested