jburd964
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I purchased a 15kw PTO generator and have a tractor. I also have a practically new 30hp Kohler engine that I'd like to use. I'm going to go into a little bit of useless info to possibly prevent someone from making the same mistake I made. Back in 2005 I bought a Generac stand by generator. It had automatic start and would transfer power within 20 seconds of lights going out and ran on natural gas. I live in SW Louisiana and used it after hurricane Rita and a couple other occasions. It would run a self check once a week by starting and going through the motions of a actual power failure to check for problems. I did this regularly without any problems. Then in late summer of 2008 we had another storm come through and it ran for like a hour and shut down. I did all the trouble shooting I could to no avail. After weeks of trying to get a service call they showed up and charged me $150 for a thirty minute service call to tell me that the windings had came apart. The whole set up including installation was around $8000. (#&$(#*.. Saying all of that to tell you the reason the generator was reasonably priced is that they cut one major manufacturing cost. Not using copper wire, but use aluminum wire with a copper coating that expanse to much for reliable use. Hopefully this will save someone somewhere the price of my lesson. But back to my project. The generator requires a 30hp engine and that power to be transferred to 540 rpm's. I'm wondering if I could find a transfer case of some type that would have spline drive inlet and out. How could I do this as cost efficient as possible.
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