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.
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