Nearly everything in a house is not that voltage or frequency sensitive. For
that matter, even in commercial installations it’s not an issue. The only time
I ever came up against a problem with the quality of the generator output was
with some really sensitive Johnson Controls HVAC stuff, which
If you needed to have generator current with stable freq. and waveform,
would it make sense to run the juice through a VFD, or would that only
work for motors? 5 KW would need a honkin big VFD, but I got a huge
Siemens VFD from the univ junk sale for $400 a few years ago. I think
it was good
"sitting a couple years..." Probably more like 40 to 70 years
Dan Penoff via Mercedes wrote on 1/11/19 6:17 PM:
Don’t know about the cap, it depends on the unit.
That generator looks to be some sort of on-off military contract unit. Powered
with a Wisconsin VG4D from the looks of things.
Floyd Thursby via Mercedes wrote on 1/11/19 5:23 PM:
I pulled the motor and blower unit from my old heat pump, was thinking
to use it in the shop for a fan. I know it is 220V, would I need to
hook up the capacitor to it to get it going or would that be small
enough to get rolling on its own?
Rotating iron generators start motors well, because they're basically trading
inertia
through overloaded wiring, but by the time the genny slows down much or heat can
build up the load is enough up to speed that it's back to 'normal' current and
things
recover. _Inverter_ generators don't have n
Don’t know about the cap, it depends on the unit.
That generator looks to be some sort of on-off military contract unit. Powered
with a Wisconsin VG4D from the looks of things.
-D
> On Jan 11, 2019, at 7:13 PM, Mitch Haley via Mercedes
> wrote:
>
> My memory is a little hazy here, but it se
My memory is a little hazy here, but it seems like AC/Heat Pump outdoor units
usually have a twin start cap for the compressor and the fan.
Anyway, speaking of generators, I bet Dan knows what this is, I sure don't:
https://lansing.craigslist.org/hvo/d/dewitt-military-generator/6779443753.html
This one had an external capacitor I had to change a time or two, maybe
it was for the compressor. I'll take a look at this unit at some point
and see what it has. It's been a coupla years since I looked at it
--FT
On 1/11/19 6:27 PM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes wrote:
It is probably reconnecta
A 3650 Husky (Home Depot branded Homelite with 6.5hp Subaru) hardly noticed my
furnace (3 ton blower) kicking in. I have no idea what the HP rating on the
blower it. Generator claims 4550 surge watts. When I hooked it up to a 4500W
water heater, it lugged down and put out 197 volts at full throt
It is probably reconnectable to 120 VAC - look on the nameplate or the cover
plate for the connections. If it had a capacitor on it as long as it’s
connected the way it was wired you should be good. Capacitor start motors
usually have a metal cover over the capacitor that looks like a large
c
I pulled the motor and blower unit from my old heat pump, was thinking
to use it in the shop for a fan. I know it is 220V, would I need to hook
up the capacitor to it to get it going or would that be small enough to
get rolling on its own?
--FT
On 1/11/19 5:09 PM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes wrot
Yes. You’re unlikely to find a motor in household equipment that’s more than
maybe 1-2 HP at best, and that would be on something pretty substantial, such
as an AC compressor. A furnace blower is going to be in the 1/2 HP range in
most cases.
-D
> On Jan 11, 2019, at 5:03 PM, Craig via Merc
On Fri, 11 Jan 2019 16:50:04 -0500 Dan Penoff via Mercedes
wrote:
> Single phase small (>10) HP and fractional HP motors are typically
> around the middle of the alphabet.
Small is smaller than 10 HP?
Or did you mean something else?
Craig
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The bulk of the power required by a furnace is in the blower motor. The
controls are pretty much inconsequential, especially if they’re electronics.
The real b*tch here is the inrush current the blower motor needs to get
started. Since I”ll almost guarantee the motor is capacitor start/split p
On 11/01/2019 3:22 PM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes wrote:
How much power does a furnace require? I imagine forced air is more than
hydronic. My oil burner has a fan (forced induction) and an oil pump that runs
off of it. There's also a couple water valves. I wonder if an 800w inverter
would run
How much power does a furnace require? I imagine forced air is more than
hydronic. My oil burner has a fan (forced induction) and an oil pump that runs
off of it. There's also a couple water valves. I wonder if an 800w inverter
would run it.
If it would you could use the inverter with a battery
Anything computerized, or otherwise running off low-voltage DC, doesn't care
what
the power is like. It can be fairly filthy, with no problems. BUT!!! The
ability of the
internal _power_supply_ itself to survive filthy power is usually what is at
issue, some
early circuits were overly sensiti
I thought it an interesting concept to share.
On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 3:28 PM Randy Bennell via Mercedes <
mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
> On 11/01/2019 2:20 PM, Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes wrote:
> > A "clean" generator would be a ginormous storage battery charged by wind,
> > solar or geoth
On 11/01/2019 2:20 PM, Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes wrote:
A "clean" generator would be a ginormous storage battery charged by wind,
solar or geothermal power. Of course, the manufacturing process of the unit
as well as the renewable energy equipment all have a carbon footprint but
operationall
A "clean" generator would be a ginormous storage battery charged by wind,
solar or geothermal power. Of course, the manufacturing process of the unit
as well as the renewable energy equipment all have a carbon footprint but
operationally - zero emissions.
On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 1:38 PM Dan--- via
“Clean” is a relative term. No generator powered by an internal combustion
engine produces “clean” power. If you look at the sine wave from any generator
like this it will have all sorts of noise on it and the waveform will not be
symmetrical or smooth.
What will matter most, if it cares, is v
If you lose power in WInnipeg in February you have roughly 5 minutes before
freezing solid. Seriously - has this ever happened?.
On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 12:23 PM Randy Bennell via Mercedes <
mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
> How does one tell how "clean" the power is from a generator? I had no
> c
How does one tell how "clean" the power is from a generator? I had no
concerns about my generators being able to power my old Lennox furnace
given it was a 1981 vintage and had nothing really electronic in the
controls. However, we replaced the furnace about 3 years ago with a high
efficiency L
I failed the ChowdaQ driver acuity test so am nursing a grudge.
On Wed, Mar 7, 2018 at 4:11 PM, Dwight Giles wrote:
> Well we will keep our hoax & you will never need to be bothered by being
> part of it.
>
> Dwight Giles Jr.
> Wickford RI
>
> On Mar 7, 2018 3:28 PM, "Andrew Strasfogel via Merce
Well we will keep our hoax & you will never need to be bothered by being
part of it.
Dwight Giles Jr.
Wickford RI
On Mar 7, 2018 3:28 PM, "Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes" <
mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
> So-called "ChowdahQ" is an elaborate, sophisticated hoax. Trust me on
> this.
>
> On Tue,
AKA - fake news.
On Wed, Mar 7, 2018 at 2:28 PM, Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes <
mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
> So-called "ChowdahQ" is an elaborate, sophisticated hoax. Trust me on
> this.
>
>
--
OK Don
*“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of
our people ne
So-called "ChowdahQ" is an elaborate, sophisticated hoax. Trust me on this.
On Tue, Mar 6, 2018 at 10:41 PM, Mountain Man via Mercedes <
mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
> --R wrote:
> > Well if it’s on the internets it must be true
>
> Yes it is the internets, and that is why the tinfoil hats.
> T
--R wrote:
> Well if it’s on the internets it must be true
Yes it is the internets, and that is why the tinfoil hats.
To Dwight - nope, not as tasty as ChowdahQ.
tin.man
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I thought you were talking about the ChowdahQ
Dwight Giles Jr.
Wickford RI
On Mar 6, 2018 9:50 PM, "Mountain Man via Mercedes"
wrote:
> Does anyone read the postings of Q?
> See - True Lies QNN - a youtube channel that never ends. Reference is
> made to "Q-drops" which are posts put out somep
Well if it’s on the internets it must be true
--R
Sent from iPhone
> On Mar 6, 2018, at 9:50 PM, Mountain Man via Mercedes
> wrote:
>
> Does anyone read the postings of Q?
> See - True Lies QNN - a youtube channel that never ends. Reference is
> made to "Q-drops" which are posts put out some
Does anyone read the postings of Q?
See - True Lies QNN - a youtube channel that never ends. Reference is
made to "Q-drops" which are posts put out someplace, perhaps at
reddit, perhaps at 4chan or 8chan whatever that is.
What was said is that this is someone deep inside DC who knows goings
on of
I am getting annoyed with email attachments being stripped off email
from certain senders, with no apparent pattern.
Today I received an email sent with an important attachment, but when
I received it, there was no attachment. The first instance I noticed
was close to a year ago, the local co
4 Mar 2014 16:02:49 -0600
From: Randy Bennell
To: Mercedes Discussion List
Subject: [MBZ] OT Q for computer guys
Message-ID: <53164d89.4020...@bennell.ca>
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My computer guy told me a while back that he would make me a usb stick
I think you can put some sort of Unix flavor on the stick and boot from
it, then use the file utility to just "Copy C -> D" or whatever, which
should move everything over and make an image of C at whatever time you
do it. You could try Ubuntu, which is a fully-featured OS and not
wildly differ
My computer guy told me a while back that he would make me a usb stick
with the necessary files on to permit me to boot the computer and then
to use it to copy the whole hard drive onto a portable drive so that it
would be available as a backup to restore the computer in the event of
trouble.
U
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