I think as long as I have breakers on the smaller unit, the genset, which I have, to protect it I won't release any magic smoke from those circuits. (From experience I know that the motor stalls first)
I will control the exciter current with the Variac and with a meter on the line, not going above the current as measured in normal generator operation. With these constraints observed I should not burn anything up. I might be able to get it spinning manually. Worth a try anyway... Norm S/V Bandersnatch Lying Julington Creek 30 07.695N 081 38.484W > [Original Message] > From: Ken James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Date: 7/29/2008 11:14:37 PM > Subject: Re: [Liveaboard] Get Home Motor/Generator > > I don't think the approach will work, because > although of course plenty of AC motors do it very > much like this, they are designed for that...I > think the phase angles you have with the genny > will not let it work that way. > > Another problem is how would you get it to start? > When it is first turned on, there will be a > rapidly changing field that the rotor will see, > not enough torque to get it moving, and lots of > excess current. > > Of course you could change the impedance for > starting. Like add a large cap. > > But I am not a motor expert, for sure, maybe it > would work after all. I kinda doubt it though. -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 _______________________________________________ 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
