Welding time On Thu, Jan 21, 2021, 11:58 AM Chuck McCown via AF <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. > -- > AF mailing list > [email protected] > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >
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