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Your Grandfather's Micro-Hydro | 15 comments (15 topical, editorial)
Re: Your Grandfather's Micro-Hydro (3.00 / 0) (#15)
by Ungrounded Lightning Rod on Fri Aug 22nd, 2008 at 06:13:46 PM MST
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I bet the mill as-is will have no trouble spinning the genny to speed if its armature is disconnected - and probably will be able to drive it to self-excite and power a couple hundred watts of load.

Of course you'll need to fix it up to pull kilowatts off the genny.  But the genny's resistance to turning is just mechanical friction plus the power delivered or lost in internal losses (including powering its own field coils).  So if there's no electrical load there's nearly no mechanical load.

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Your Grandfather's Micro-Hydro | 15 comments (15 topical, 0 editorial)

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