THUMBS UP DRAWING OF MYSELF GENRATOR GENERATOR
THUMBS UP DRAWING OF MYSELF GENRATOR FREE

THUMBS UP DRAWING OF MYSELF GENRATOR GENERATOR

The generator is now bolted to a 1/4 inch thick steel plate. So I put a smaller pulley on the engine and a larger one on the generator to increase the torque delivered to the generator. The generator was needing more torque than the engine could supply with the old pulleys. I found that the belt was slipping under load. Speaking of the pulleys, I have replaced both the pulley on the engine and the one on the motor. By turning the rod, I can move the motor mount side to side to perfectly align the pulleys. I built the hinge out of 3/4 inch threaded rod with big rod coupling nuts as the actual hinge points. I replaced the brass door hinge with a heavy steel hinge much wider and sturdier than the old one. So I replaced all the plastic with steel plate. I was starting to have a lot of trouble with the plastic warping and throwing things out of alignment. However, even at only 10 Amps of output, this generator still produces enough power to supplement my wind turbine and solar panels on cloudy, calm days when I really just need a little extra power. I may also tinker with changing the pulley sizes on the engine and generator. Some adjustments to the carburetor might also help. A nice tune-up might help, and maybe some synthetic oil to reduce internal friction. I doubt the engine has ever had any maintenance. I may be able to tweak the engine to get more power out of it though. Adding more bulbs starts bogging down the engine. 10 Amps, or a little more, seems to be the limit of what this little generator can produce at the moment. The bulbs are all burning nice and brightly. Later I got the generator up and running with 5 bulbs installed for a load of 10 Amps on the generator. The lights burned brightly.Ī check of the voltage shows perfect voltage for battery charging. I started out with only 4 bulbs installed in the dummy load. My little generator won't put out anywhere near that amount of current.įor the first test of the generator. This dummy load will handle up to 40 Amps at 12 Volts. So I can adjust the load on the generator simply by changing the number of bulbs installed.

It is basically a big light bar with 20 lamp sockets wired in parallel. The first photo below shows the dummy load I used for testing the generator. To bend it, I clamped the rod in my bench vise, and heated it red hot with a propane torch. I put a new 90 degree bend in the end of the rod and drilled it to take the Cotter Pin that originally attached the rod to the blade assembly. I shortened the rod that originally raised and lowered the edger blade. I also cut away part of the end and bent back a tab to make an anchor point for the rod that will raise and lower the motor to adjust the belt tension. The steel channel straightens out and reinforces the plastic where it had been warping before. In the last photo I have bolted a piece of scrap steel angle channel to the piece of plastic holding the motor. However, I found a way to fix the problem. This is where metal would have worked better like I said above. It was caused by over-tightening the U-bolts. You can see that the plastic the motor is mounted to has warped a little. Next time I would probably use two hinges to give it added support and strength. The beauty of this is That I only have to pop out the hinge pin to separate the two pieces. This will allow me to adjust the tension on the belt driving the generator. The third photo shows the hinge that holds the two pieces of plastic together and allows them to move relative to each other. now I just need to mount a hinge to hold the two pieces together. The motor (generator) is mounted on another piece of the super-tough yellow plastic with big U-bolts.

THUMBS UP DRAWING OF MYSELF GENRATOR FREE

I probably should have used metal, but the plastic was free and a lot easier to cut and drill. The plastic is 1/2 inch thick and very tough.

I bolted a heavy piece of plastic to the handle of the edger using U-bolts. Once I figured out the choke, it starts every time on about the 2nd pull and runs strong. It tuned out I had the choke lever in the wrong position. It seemed to have good compression though, so I took a chance for only $5. I almost didn't buy it because I couldn't get it to start at the yard sale. The edger is rusty and dirty, but basically sound. I'll keep my eyes open for a cheap 5 horse or bigger engine to play with in the future. Aside from just getting the motor running on wood gas, I wanted it to do something useful, do I decided to build a generator. I wanted a gasoline engine I could experiment with converting over to running on wood gas from my wood gasifier. I would have preferred to have about a 5 Horsepower engine, but at only $5, I couldn't pass this thing up. Below are two photos of the 3 Horsepower edger I bought at a yard sale for only $5! It's not much of a looker, but it starts easy and runs great.

Thumbs up drawing of myself genrator