Good morning!!!!

[lostcreekranch]

Sounds like a great trip. Where is the texas hill country?

We have a permanent camp, in our own Canyon, about 10 miles south of Hunt, on Rocky Creek.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

I drove up I10 yrs ago from san antonio

 

[RoyJackson]

2019-09-27, 0332

50 right now...high about 70...

All hands, have a great day!!

 

[Eric Salop]

Good morning, another day with plenty of showers for us. Now trying to second guess when the rain will ease long enough for us all to go up to the pond and be entertained by feeding the small fry.

In my misadventure with the generator yesterday, I tried using a multi-meter set on AC to determine if the generator was putting out 240 volts. But when I measured between the two terminals that were supposed to have the 240 volts on them, I only got about 7 volts. Yet each of those terminals measured 120 volts with respect to the neutral terminal. I've seen this before with the 240 volt service to the house, and am curious as to why that is.

Most single phase generators I have seen with dual voltage use 2 windings. If they have a selector switch then in principle, when set to the lowest voltage the windings are connected in parallel (the sinusoidal waveforms from each are then in phase with one another), allowing the output current to come equally from each winding, giving maximum current output.

In the highest voltage position the windings are connected in series to make them 180 degrees out of phase with one another, producing 240V. A 120 V socket outlet may also be connected across one the windings in this configuration, allowing 120 appliances to be used at the same time, albeit at a lower current than in the low voltage position.

My guess is that you were taking a measurement at a place where the windings were in phase instead of out of phase. The 7V discrepancy( instead of it being exactly 0V), could be explained by the windings occupying different physical positions in the stator slots. The revolving magnetic field passes each winding at a slightly different instance in time, hence their AC waveforms are never perfectly 0/180 degrees in/out of phase with each other.

In practice, generator windings are often complicated by having 3 wires instead of just one at each end (with the extra wire being taken from a tap part way into the winding), if you ever need to disconnect them from the terminal board, make sure they are well marked and go back in the same position.

 

[daugen]

You too Roy, you sound better, hope you get that tbone soon.

72 going to high 80's today, clouds and possible thunderstorms this afternoon.

Foodshopping this morning, then take rv down to tire shop, then nothing else scheduled.

Rick, bet it was good to be home for more than your horse.

Buckeye, glad you are feeling better and that strength comes back steadily

Hey, no ganging up on Toppop. Maybe I could take some prednisone and we could compare...

Jay, slow and steady, be careful nothing gets worse. Not being able to breath well must be worrisome. Feel better.

 

[Buppies]

61 high of 85 today still dry

Prayers for all in need and under the weather

Another skin cancer removal today

 

[Eric Salop]

... needed to meet the guy who invited me on the
tractor parade this Saturday. Had to tell him sorry, cost of insurance over 500 bucks to insure my tractor off premises. I asked insurance agent don't they have a parade end't and apparently not. Agent said 99 percent of his clients would never have asked the question, but then laughed and said I was sure his only client who had actually taught insurance.

Now if I were a real farmer and had a Farmowners policy and not a normal homeowners, I'd be covered.
Just remember, you only are covered if you are using your tractor for "maintenance of the premises" and the premises had better be
listed on the policy.

I sympathise with you Drew. I have a full farming policy and have recently been made aware of other limitations that mean I am going to have to turn down requests for help when someone gets stuck in mud on the caravan site at the top of our drive, even if it only takes a few minutes to pull them out.

The insurer told me that because getting to the site requires me to travel on a public road (even though only for 100 yards), I would also have to pay full commercial truck annual road tax, even though my Iseki is normally exempt from this, as it is already registered for road use as an agricultural vehicle. Worst of all, I would have clean out my storage and tractor diesel tanks and from now on only use road taxed diesel, for not just that 100 yards, but for ALL my other agricultural use too.

Sometimes laws seem to come down hardest on those who do their best to do the right thing.

 

[daugen]

Wow Eric, you live in a British California.........
A rule for everything and rules about rules.
Being civilized is one thing, being nitpicked to death by overbearing revenue oriented,
inadequately equipped inspectors who love to write up infractions on their ever
present clipboard is an unpleasant reality.

Yes, I think I can go on the road if going directly to a second owned premises, which I don't have.
But not like you could drive 100 miles to your mountain cabin...

Europe has always had faster tractors, though now I guess JD, etc has caught up.
My new Massey goes pretty fast in 5th High, I'm too chicken to put it in 6th, not on my little roads.
I wonder what the Germans do, land of the Autobahn and top of the line Fendts.
We need some tractor racing on the Autobahn, some high speed curves on the 'Ring.
I nominate Eric's Iseki as our first TBN driver. :thumbsup:
RNG can be the camera man in a BMW with a sidecar.

being at risk for getting the verbal hook,
I'll head for more coffee.

 

[Thomas]

50F low 70's for high maybe passing shower.

Raining just as I reach driveway after work yesterday,by 7:30pm stop raining which meant no puttering outside.
Really no plans for after work other than puttering.
E muffin feed little critters slow roll to work.

Enjoy the day all.

 

[ronjhall]

Coffee is done brewing. 50° with cloudy skies this morning. Heading to 76° with cloudy skies and chance of evening rain. Had a low of 40° early this morning. Hope that is not a sign of weather heading this way. Thought I would feel bad from yesterdays climbing and crawling around car. But feel pretty good. Might as well as get oil changed in car this morning. Dr appointment in afternoon.

Buckeye, glad recovery is still going OK.

David, nice concrete job.

Rick, Always like Hill Country. Is the Canyon your place is on the one that has all the winding roads?

Drew, my home owners policy has a rider for using tractor on neighbors place. Forget what it is called.

Buppies, prayers sent.

Eric, I was going to say similar about why RNG generator was not reading 240 volts. You said it much better than I can.

Jay, hope you are feeling better today.

Good Morning All.