Northern Tool Pto Gen

[liberty2701]

I picked up the generator and now I need a mount. I see 3pt carryall for a $100. Are these sufficient for the gen? I realize that I will have to make a mounting board for the gen. Are they strong enough for the twisting force? Thank

 

[EE_Bota]

I picked up the generator and now I need a mount. I see 3pt carryall for a $100. Are these sufficient for the gen? I realize that I will have to make a mounting board for the gen. Are they strong enough for the twisting force? Thank

I can't vouch for all of them, but I should think most would be strong enough.

 

[JohninCT]

I picked up the generator and now I need a mount. I see 3pt carryall for a $100. Are these sufficient for the gen? I realize that I will have to make a mounting board for the gen. Are they strong enough for the twisting force? Thank

I've got the 7500W NT generator. Bolted a piece of 3/4 inch plywood to a carryall bought at TSC then bolted the generator to that. It works great. You should be able to get a drive shaft for it at TSC.

 

[JohninCT]

PTO shaft from TSC

http://www.tractorsupply.com/pto-shaft-46-in-l-compressed-0271368

 

[SPYDERLK]

I just got some more info on the unit. It is 4 years old never used. No carrier or shaft. I can get it for$550. Is this a good deal?

I picked up the generator and now I need a mount. I see 3pt carryall for a $100. Are these sufficient for the gen? I realize that I will have to make a mounting board for the gen. Are they strong enough for the twisting force? Thank

A couple hundred foot pounds max running torque. Not so much. You always want to spin/start it up smoothly tho in any case to avoid a significantly higher peak during acceleration . I have the lightest duty driveshaft made on mine so Im naturally careful on startup.
larry

 

[liberty2701]

I am going to order the carryall and the shaft at the same time. Any idea what length shaft I should get?

 

[EE_Bota]

I am going to order the carryall and the shaft at the same time. Any idea what length shaft I should get?

Sketch up your situation, and do the math...or buy one too long and know you have to cut it...your choice.

I did the sketch and the math, and I found I needed to cut a little, but I knew it in advance. I may have saved a buck or two buying the shaft closest in length to my needs to begin with though.

My tractor is a BX, so getting pretty persnickety pays off when you are smallish to begin with. My genny is bolted to its custom pallet, and obviously I want the genny stored in prime dry clean real estate, so optimizing it's storage size was important. My pallet sits on a dolly so I can roll it around, etc.

I don't know your scale. My scale, it's tough...but I can pick up my carryall with my bare hands and insert it into the pallet if I want to.

 

[Soundguy]

I picked up the generator and now I need a mount. I see 3pt carryall for a $100. Are these sufficient for the gen? I realize that I will have to make a mounting board for the gen. Are they strong enough for the twisting force? Thank

i mentioned EXACTLY that in my post.

i used fence corall boards to make a deck onthe carryall.. then lag bolted and safety braid wired the pallate to it that the pto gen came on.

works fine.

 

[Car Doc]

fwtw My gen is trailer mounted so if needed I can throw a stick welder on and fix things around the property etc food for thought. Nice find btw hope she works as expected! :thumbsup:

 

[Soundguy]

yep.. that's a good use. the corner of my pallate has room for my stick welder as well.

 

[liberty2701]

Just picked up a carryall from TSC for $129. Now need to get a pto shaft. Thanks for all the replies

 

[Soundguy]

tsc may have them as well. mine had an eurocardan style..

 

[liberty2701]

I just mounted the gen to the carryall and decided to check all outlet grounds to the generator case to make sure they were all grounded properly which they were (for safety). My understanding of electrical is that the hot leads in the outlets to ground should show no continuity. Well I have continuity. Did I get taken on this gen? Is there a short? Could Soundguy test your unit to see if continuity exist on yours. I cannot hook up the gen because i am waiting on the shaft. I f there is a problem i would like to know asap so i could call the seller. Any help would be great. thanks

 

[Car Doc]

I think so far you are still ok w/o actually checking mine I can tell you w/o a doubt the case is a ground for the circuit mine is set up that way.

So I would expect logically that the outlet grounds to be the same ground but someone may disagree with me a ground is a ground?

I see you are wondering about continuity between the hots to the ground sorry hummm dunno on that almost think there should be because of the stator but elifino Soundguy will help I am sure.

 

[Soundguy]

i'll go check mine to tell you what a MM shows.. but remember.. making electricity is a basic concentl. big ball of wire and a magnet. one of them has to spin... geound and hot have to have a circuit path for electrons to actually move. so seeing continuity from the hot spade to ground is not really indicative of any problem.. YET

 

[liberty2701]

One more question. My 2610 has 20 pto hp. That translates into 10kw. Will I have any surge capacity above that? I am going to run my feeder cable to my panel and am wondering if i should run NM 8/3 or 6/3. The run is 75 ft

 

[Soundguy]

the 2hp per kw is a 'rule of thumb' not a carved in stone #.. plus.. your machine may actually dyno higher ( or lower! )

technically a hp is about 746w thus 2 hp is about 1246w however.. that's direct conversion with no loss. add in some spinning shafts and gears in an oil sump, gear reduction..e tc.. and that's where the 2hp per kw comes in.

also realize that the inertia of the spinning genny and tractor innards will give you -some- carry thru on load startup.

I would not look for realistic power generation for steady state usage OVER 10kw..witht hat tractor...however.. if running line.. I'd run line sized for the genny capability. as you can always use a different tractor... be a shame not to use genny's capability if available.

thus.. go to the larger line..
soundguy

 

[liberty2701]

I just got the pto shaft and hooked it up. I need to address two issues. One is my seat has a disconnect switch when i get off it so the tractor turns off with the 540 pto on. Do i need to bypass it? The other issue is that at 540 rpm on the tach I am no where near the right voltage. I am getting 54 hertz 190 volts. I need to bring it up an additional 300 rpm to get it to 240 volts and 62 hz. I have a massey Gc2610 with 20 pto hp. Is this normal?

update: I should be getting 540 at 2500 rpm. I need to go to 2750 on the tach to get 60.2hz and 228 volts. That is 250 rpm over. Is this normal? WOW!!! tThat gear box is noisy. Would Amsoil quiet it down. Does it get quieter when it is broken in?

 

[Soundguy]

I just got the pto shaft and hooked it up. I need to address two issues. One is my seat has a disconnect switch when i get off it so the tractor turns off with the 540 pto on. Do i need to bypass it? The other issue is that at 540 rpm on the tach I am no where near the right voltage. I am getting 54 hertz 190 volts. I need to bring it up an additional 300 rpm to get it to 240 volts and 62 hz. I have a massey Gc2610 with 20 pto hp. Is this normal?

1, on many systems with a seat safety, you can set the parking break and get up / and / or flip the seat up.. check your op manual


as for the hz / rpm issue.

Unfortunately.. I'd say the tach on your tractor is less than accurate.

that genny is calibrated to make correct voltagewhen turning correct cycles. correct cycles are what matters the most. keep it turning to make 60cps everything else will fall into place according to your load and governor capability.

since rpm / cps is a locked ratio... when the gen says it is at 60cps.. then your input rpm is correct.. reguardless of what the tractor tach says.

PS.. I've seen some tractor tach marks that do not actually denote 540 rpm. I've seen everything from 530 to 550 denoted.. oddly enough.. 537 being common on some older machines..

 

[schmism]

since rpm / cps is a locked ratio... when the gen says it is at 60cps.. then your input rpm is correct.. reguardless of what the tractor tach says.

Make shure your set the rpm with the genny under load. (max load preferably) this means you still maintain 60hz while under load. even if you pick up a few hz while under light load, that is preferable vs dropping hz when loaded.