VanLUG Email Archive
jerome schatten (romers@home.com)
Wed, 05 May 1999 23:10:45 -0700
Ian... Lee - ve7cc, checked out the regulation, no-load to full-load,
and found it quite acceptable. This was in an e-mail to me, long
deleted, so you may want to check with him. His report was that: out of
the box, it ran kinda rough, but it settled down quite cheerfully as it
broke in.
jerome
Ian Simpson wrote:
>
> Be careful using these generators. The unloaded voltage regulation can
> be rather high. I think we measured one at around 136 volts at a Amateur
> Radio Field Day site and decided not to use it for that reason. I think
> they are designed largely for the contractor market where Skil saws etc.
> are use on a work site and the high unloaded voltage is not such a
> problem. If you can keep a good base load on, they may be OK. If a 5 kW
> unit is only supplying a few 100 watts, the voltage will probably be too
> high. Check if the regulation can be adjusted before buying one.
>
> The danger to a B.C. Hydro repair crew is real. A mechanical interlock
> of some kind should be used to prevent feeding power out to the street
> where it could be transformed up to the distribution voltage of 4 to 25
> kV. However, if this did happen, the generator would probably overload
> as it tried to power all the houses on your street!
>
> Ian
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