Generator build

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schmism

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I seem to have a collection of vertical shaft single cylinder engines commonly found on riding lawnmowers. 12-16hp range.

Some of these are still in frames of old lawnmowers others are sitting on a shelf.

Id like to do something productive with them, and the idea of converting one or more into generators sounds appealing.

Most standard generators are direct drive.

anyone converted a vertical shaft to horizontal shaft operation? is there anything fundamentally different between the 2?

is there a source for 3600 rpm gen heads for direct drive on 12-16hp engines?

anyone bolted a genhead to the front of an existing riding lawnmower.... belt driven off the exisiting drive pully?
 
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Gen heads generaly don't have crank cases - you might have better luck keeping the engine vertical, and mounting the genny next to it... Steve
 

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