> > This would include bearings slip rings, often shafts collar seals and > perhaps even propeller blades. > The collar bearing is a thrust bearing, but it is an insert in the body casting, looks to be a machined piece, like a bushing (very low friction is not so important here. > A good motor repair shop could even figure out how to do a stator rewind. > Anybody could do it for the Air Marine if they carefully unwound the old one and recorded the windings direction and number of turns and hook-ups, and re-did them with new wire. It looks to be easier than a motorcycle type. But I should add that most I've seen are not as simple as the Air Marine and would be more difficult to rewind, as they more nearly resemble a standard electric motors stator windings in design. But it could still be done if you really wanted to.
BTW, some of the more efficient PM generators no longer use diodes to do the AC to DC rectification, instead they use transistors that have .032 volts drop at full rated current! That makes them 10% more efficient at one whack.-Ken > _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list [email protected] To adjust your membership settings over the web http://www.liveaboardnow.org/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] The archives are at http://www.liveaboardnow.org/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
