Possible Gernerator Project

[Iplayfarmer]

Wrong. Gear doesn't change power. It changes speed and torque. There will be 20HP minus several percent losses available at high speed shaft.

What Redneck said. It's easy to get horsepower and torque mixed up. Whether you lift ten bricks twice an hour or two bricks ten times in an hour in the end you still lifted 20 bricks. That's horsepower.

An overdriven gen head will require more torque out of the pto than out of a higher speed engine, but the horsepower will be the same.

 

[PHIL850]

I am flip flopping between using Pulleys and Belts or just buying the Gear box for $299 along with the LoveJoy style coupling ($99). If I can find the correct size pulleys at a reasonable cost I would go that way, however pricing these things out brand new, they are not cheap! I found this Website Central Georgia Generator that deals in this particular Gen and they carry all sorts of spare parts for these.

 

[zzvyb6]

If you had a lawn mower (specifically a front deck mower) you could hook up the alternator directly. All my JD front mowers (and my mid-pto on my 1070) use a 2100 rpm pto drive shaft. In fact, I run my 540 rpm pto alternator off of my JD F-935 front pto with a 3:1 reducer. With your alternator, no reduction would be necessary. The 935 is about 22 hp. The Winpower is 50 kw. Never had a problem because my house and barn don't suck more than 10 kw at a time. I use a Kill-O-Watt device to monitor frequency because the mower doesn't have a tachometer. All I need to do is unbolt the clamp on the mower gearbox input shaft and hook it to the reducer box's input.

Plenty of power for lights, water, cooking, computers, TV and washing. TV, internet and phones are over underground U-Verse system lines, so they are just about always up.

 

[Ductape]

Any progress on this ? I was looking at these gen heads on the web site. Seem very affordable, but by the time you purchase the gearbox, etc. would it be any cheaper than just buying a PTO generator?

 

[Ultara]

I did this several years ago and drove the 10k gen off the front pto on my simplicity Legacy. Just sold the tractor so I will be redesigning for the rear pto on my new gc2410. I had no problems running my 25 hp Legacy @ 2100 rpm. It took a couple try's with the pulley arrangement to get the 3600 rpm at the generator. I will do the same with the rear pto. I'm going to set it up to run @ 2k. I'll have to run a double step up pulley system. I'll post up pics of my other setup tomorrow.

 

[Ductape]

I look forward to seeing the pics of your new project too. :thumbsup:

 

[PHIL850]

The project is on hold for a bit. As I moved the Genset the other day, and my Back has not forgiven me since.

 

[Iplayfarmer]

The project is on hold for a bit. As I moved the Genset the other day, and my Back has not forgiven me since.

OH, no!!

I feel for you. I hope you recover quickly.

 

[Ultara]

Took me a while to get out to the barn. This work thing keeps getting in the way.

 

[Ductape]

Would it be any simpler to front mount it on the GC and run off the mid PTO ? RPMs would be close to the simplicity, no?