Went to convert a 4000 watt coleman generator to a belt driven generator....
Guess what - the engine crankshaft is essentially the rotor shaft too. The
generator does not have a set of independent bearings that would allow it to be
belt driven. So I would have had to make a plate that emulates the crankcase
and install a bearing in it. Possibly cutting off the crankshaft. I didn’t
get far enough into it to see how the rotor was actually joined to the
crankshaft.
So much for a used $100 generator solution. The cheapest belt driven AC
generators I have found are about $500. An alternator/inverter combo will not
give me the watts I need.
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