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« Reply #33 on: January 11, 2013, 06:51:08 PM »
Even in big cities a three phase generator can pay for itself.

I used to pick/deliver a print shop route. One of my customers on Belvedere Road in West Palm Beach had a three phase gen in the loft of his warehouse bay to run his Hamada sheet fed press. 240 split phase 100 amp service was at the back of the shop. There was 3 phase 100 feet away across the street, but FPL wanted $20k to string wires to add the service to him. He paid the electric bill of the neighbors' bay in exchange for tapping his 100 amp panel. Even 200 amps at 240 was just barely enough to run things. He would have to turn off lights or the a/c when he was bumping the Hamada to set up a job.

But he made money with that Hamada printing 4 color brochures for people selling $million estates on the island of Palm Beach and did such nice work that he had no shortage of customers.

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« Reply #34 on: January 12, 2013, 04:48:46 PM »
No, that's a 120/208.  You need a 120/240 high leg delta generator (based on the description of your stuff).  Some stuff that runs on 240 three phase can also be run on 208.  You'd have to look at the tags on your stuff.
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so i work at S&W, we have 52 acres of CNC equipment and electricians who deal with up to 13,800volts coming into the electrical vaults.   all they do is wire machines, and i polled all 6 of them.  all of them said to avoid a high leg delta and instead go with a 120/208 wye generator.  i explained my loads and each of them agreed that my 240 equipment would run on 208, just at a higher amperage.. not enough to warrant an increased wire guage in most cases, but perhaps a few sizes up on the overload heaters.   going with the high leg delta leaves me with 1/3 less space in the panel (because the high leg cant be used) and the possible unbalanced loading issue. 

please dont take this as me doubting or criticizing you chris, im just trying to cover all my bases.  i personally would feel warmer and fuzzier if all my stuff said 240 on the tag, but i dont know enough to choose a side, and im not sure what i have that you doubt will be happy on a 120/208 wye.  was there something specific about the needs i described that disqualifies a wye?  im also under the impression the wye has a neutral (that i will need to get 110vac single phase without the use of a transformer) and delta does not.

thanks again for your time!

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« Reply #35 on: January 12, 2013, 05:05:40 PM »
but i dont know enough to choose a side, and im not sure what i have that you doubt will be happy on a 120/208 wye.

Yeah, industrial guys would say that because they've never worked with a high leg delta system.  The problem will be 240V split phase stuff (welders, air compressor, water heaters, single phase lighting, etc.).  You will have 120V single phase from any leg of a 208V three-phase service to neutral.  But you will not have 240 split phase because the legs are 120° electrically separated.  So you'll need a 208 three-phase to 240V single phase buck transformer.
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« Reply #36 on: January 12, 2013, 07:15:10 PM »
thanks for the quick response.. ill let that soak into my head for a while.

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« Reply #37 on: January 13, 2013, 11:53:22 AM »
im getting up to speed on the ins and outs of 'split phase' circuits and loads.  this article is really helping.

http://www.allaboutcircuits.com/vol_2/chpt_10/1.html

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« Reply #38 on: January 13, 2013, 12:19:58 PM »
There's a number of factual errors in that article.  I don't know who wrote it but he/she needs an education.

First of all, European power, as stated in the article, is 230V, not 240.

Split phase power is not two 120 volt supplies that are in phase, as stated in the article.  It is two 120 volt (in relation to neutral) legs that are 180 degrees out of phase.

If you intend to use split phase power at all (which is just about unavoidable in the US), either for your home backup from the shop gen, or in the shop itself, 120/240 high leg delta three-phase service is a better option because it eliminates having to use transformers.  We have 277/480V at our place because we have 100hp motors and a single motor draws 200 amps, and two of those 100 horse motors at full load make our little 250kW Cummins genset blow smoke to the sky.  But if your total amp draw to any load is under 100 amps you can use 120/240 three phase with no problems, and have 120/240 split phase without transformers.
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« Reply #39 on: January 13, 2013, 03:46:50 PM »
Chris: European power nominally ranges from about 220V to 250V given a fudge to allow the (higher) UK range and (lower) continental voltages to be considered "the same" across the whole EU.

Plugging in a Kill-a-Watt-like meter to my nearest power socket right shows me 245.5V for example.

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« Reply #40 on: January 13, 2013, 04:16:07 PM »
Damon, that's because the power companies play with voltage and frequency just like they do here, depending on demand and time of day.

The European nominal is 230/400 50 Hz.  You guys had a transition period from 1995–2008 when countries that had previously used 220 V changed to a narrower asymmetric tolerance range of 230 V +6% −10% and those (like the UK) that had previously used 240 V changed to 230 V +10% −6%.

Our son-in-law works at a factory where he's Maintenance Supervisor.  On the night shift they were tripping breakers and overheating and burning up 208V three-phase motors one right after another.  Our son-in-law found out the Mains voltage was being dropped from 10:00 PM to 5:00 AM to 115/200 and 59 Hz.  He went around to several other places and checked and found the same thing.  He documented all of it.

Then he contacted the power company and confronted them with it.  They denied it and said go ahead and take us to court because you'll never prove it.  Almost like a miracle the Mains voltage and freq didn't drop anymore.

The power company was clocking their generators down at night to save money on fuel under low load demand times, which at the same time caused people's equipment to draw more kWh and the power company comes out smelling like a rose with higher shareholder profits.  Our son-in-law filed a formal complaint with the Public Service Commission and it got dismissed due to "circumstantial evidence".
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« Reply #41 on: January 13, 2013, 11:00:25 PM »
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If we mark the two sources' common connection point (the neutral wire) with the same polarity mark (-), we must express their relative phase shifts as being 180o apart. Otherwise, we'd be denoting two voltage sources in direct opposition with each other, which would give 0 volts between the two “hot” conductors. Why am I taking the time to elaborate on polarity marks and phase angles? It will make more sense in the next section!


the second page is where it gets technical
http://www.allaboutcircuits.com/vol_2/chpt_10/2.html

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« Reply #42 on: January 14, 2013, 12:50:23 PM »
I would be wary of running 240v equipment on 208v. We only have 3 phase 208 in the shop, but one of our engraving lasers is 240v split phase and the big laminator also is. Both pieces of equipment were installed by their makers and both said the lower voltage would be no problem, but they were both wrong. The laminator has heated rollers and the heater, wires and breakers burned out so many times they were forced to buy a buck transformer to correct it.

I watched the tech trying to calibrate the dual power supply on the 4kw laser and he couldn't. I reminded him that we didn't have the proper supply but he refused to acknowledge that as a problem and left the supply unbalanced. We blew power resistors on the boards every thing we started the tube, so we were forced to leave the laser powered up all the time instead of shutting it down at night. The 208v in the shop isn't even 208. While the tech was there I got a meter and read the voltage on the line under load and it was 190. A 208 appliance will run from 190 but a 240 appliance sure as h3ll won't.

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« Reply #43 on: January 14, 2013, 01:43:57 PM »
That's one of the problems with 208V three phase power.  You can take 208 single phase off it by using two legs, and it will run resistive loads at lower wattages with no problems.  But it won't run sensitive equipment or motors because the two legs are 120 degrees apart instead of 180, which wreaks havoc with transformers in welders and windings in electric motors.

The only option is to use a 208 -> 240 stepup transformer with a 208 VAC floating primary and a 240 VAC grounded center tapped secondary.

This is one reason, besides our 100 hp motor loads, that we went with 277/480.  All of our motors that are designed for 240 three-phase also run on 480.  Our shop lighting is 277 single phase.  And we use a 480 -> 240 transformer with a center tapped secondary for the split phase (welders, air compressor, etc).  The 480 -> 240 transformers are a dime a dozen and you can pick up a 25 kVA one for less than $1,000 bucks.  And you can get 45 kVA ones like this for about $2,000:
http://www.magnalight.com/showproduct.aspx?productid=64254&gclid=CLr3o4m96LQCFck7MgodxyMAGA

Going the other way with 208V to 240V often ends up overloading 208V wiring and that is the primary reason 277/480 is pretty much the standard now that has replaced the old high leg delta 240V three phase systems.  For a one-off system that doesn't have loads requiring 480 volt I would still find a 120/240 high leg delta generator instead of using 277/480 because it eliminates any transformers being you already have one winding in the generator tapped for a grounded neutral.  I would only use 120/208 as a last resort, as it is never installed anymore in new installations.
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« Reply #44 on: January 14, 2013, 02:19:47 PM »
a little offtopic maybee, but is there any uppside with all this voltage 120-208-240-277-480V? up here in nothern europe it´s standard with 3 phase 400V to a normal house, ex we have 3*20A 400v to our house, the smal brewery i work on have 3*100A 400v. if it old grid problem that makes this warying in voltage, vy bother in off grid with all this voltage varying and not go for simple 400v 3 phase, i can see the problem with geting 230/400 volt 50hz stuff over there, but it seams its alot of truble with equpment that breaks and runs hot and so on, things i never heard of here, of course things brakedown here too, but you never need to think about if you have the right voltage att home when you buy eqipment, it is 230 or 400, 230 for 1 phase and 400 for 3 phase all you need to know is that you have enogth main brekers. but i guess i miss some thing.
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« Reply #45 on: January 14, 2013, 02:29:06 PM »
smidy,

The US has a hodge-podge of different "standards" that make no sense.  The European system is much more efficient and much better designed.  Somebody had a brainstorm that ended up being more like a brainstrain when they designed the split phase power system that is used in US and Canadian residential electrical services.
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« Reply #46 on: January 14, 2013, 03:01:12 PM »
Thanks Chris I'm glad there is at least one other who may think the split phase system is less than Ideal. in the US not even all power generation is 60hz At the power generation stations it ca nrange from 25 hz to 133 hz I think Niagara and the Hover project or the Columbia river power facilities are at the 2 extremes if memory serves.
 the 110v  got its roots with Edison his carbon filament bulbs worked best at 100v  then he patented a 3 wire DC system with 2 hots and a trot as I call it which was actually easily converted to the Tesla/Westinghouse AC system  I don't know why the split phase came to pass but I'm sure it had to do with someone making a ton of money off of it rather than providing electricity.
 The US history is full of brainfarts but to be fair so is the European     
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« Reply #47 on: January 14, 2013, 03:06:27 PM »
then chris, you should have great ways to import 230/400 since your wife is from sweden  ;D. ofcourse it is problematic to go from contry standard if something fails and you have to import from over seas. i did se in your generatorsuport youtube that you have an european kitchen stove (not sure thats rigth world, that thing you make your food on) how do you power that thing? not sure but it have clock an timers? if so dont they get fast on 60hz or do you have 400v 50hz to in your armada of voltage?
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« Reply #48 on: January 14, 2013, 03:43:54 PM »
All the controls in my wife's range are DC and run off a small transformer in it.  All that had to be changed was the transformer and Electrolux put that in for export to the US.  The elements and Litz coils in it are 230V, which works fine on US 240 split phase by simply changing the cord and hookup to the power supply in it.  The European wiring has neutral and ground as the same thing with a 230V -> 24VDC 50 Hz transformer for the controls.  The US wiring separates the neutral from the ground and the legs go to the European "hot" and neutral and the ground goes to the frame.

The oven heating part doesn't know the difference between them.  It only took the 120V -> 24 VDC 60Hz transformer for the controls and the clock keeps perfect time.
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« Reply #49 on: January 16, 2013, 11:04:18 PM »
i own an acme 45kva 3ph/60hz transformer thats wired in at my shop and will be removed when we go. 

tag says
primary 240 delta w FC taps
secondary 208/120

can this be backfed from a 208 genset and feed out 240? ive seen a lot of people saying yes on electrician forums.

something i found out when i was looking at the transformer tonight, my digital meter claims around 146volts per leg on all 3 legs.  whats that about?

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« Reply #50 on: January 17, 2013, 10:50:07 AM »
I thought only Wile E. Coyote had them Acme transformers.  But yeah, you should be able to back feed it.

I assume you're measuring from leg to neutral with your meter?  I don't know what's up with the 146 volts.  You should get 120 from two legs to neutral, 200-208 on the high leg, and 240 between any two legs if it's a high leg delta system.  You should get 120 from all three to neutral, and 208 between any two legs, if it's a 208V wye system.

I'm guessing you got a measurement error there due to possibly the neutral carrying some power from unbalanced single phase loads, or a bad ground in the system.  Did you try measuring from neutral to ground to see if you get a voltage reading?

Why do you have a transformer with a 240 tapped primary and a 208 secondary?  I thought you currently have 240 high leg delta service?  You running something on 208V right now?  That type of transformer would typically only be installed where your utility company is stepping down 4800 or 7200 transmission voltage to 240 high leg delta three phase service for a "service block" where one transformer will feed several businesses with both single and three-phase power.  It'll be one of those big square buzzy suckers that sets on the ground someplace and says "DANGER - High Voltage" on it.  So then the high leg delta service comes into your factory or place, but you need 208V.  So you got your own transformer to step down the high leg delta "service block" to 120/208 45 kVA (200 amp service) for your factory or shop.
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« Reply #51 on: January 17, 2013, 12:29:53 PM »
i meant a wall mounted digital killowatt meter so i can be billed accurately for electrical usage, not measuring with a multimeter.

 when i was negotiating the deal on my space, i said no to an estimated electric billing where im sharing lines with numerous other users.  especially since i knew thered be weeks or even months where i wasnt down there running anything.. the stuff i use there is sporadic.  i said if they put me on a meter then we had a deal, they said well do the meter but youll need a transformer, heres the specs.  i got lucky on a suitable unit way bigger than i needed and they wired it.  i didnt know anything about 3phase back then, it was all smoke and mystery.

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« Reply #52 on: January 17, 2013, 12:36:20 PM »
Yeah well - then it sounds like one of two things - your service block is 240 high leg delta, and since you wanted yours separate, you're on 120/208 already.

OR-

Your service block is 120/208 and you wanted 240 high leg delta for your place, so the transformer is being used in reverse to step the 120/208 up to 240 high leg delta for your shop.

Either way, you obviously already have a transformer, so your power problem is solved for your new shop and you can buy whatever generator you want.
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« Reply #53 on: January 19, 2013, 02:01:25 PM »
Hello ya all... im in South Africa.
About off grid an living comfortably .
FIRST... cook with gas (until you can make your own), same gas or fire for hot water (once a day).
Forget air conditioning and use fans. (very light on battery bank).

Battery bank;
Contact me for 20 year guarantee lead/ acid battery bank. (normal price of 1 year guarantee battery).
12 V, 100 A/H through inverter for light, TV, computer, fans, cell charge etc.
Recharge by wind, solar, easy manual*, and manual fuel cell* . (*PATENT).

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« Reply #54 on: January 21, 2013, 01:55:40 PM »
Not really related to Mikes problem - but it was 27 below (F) here this morning.  Started our cogen set last night at 9:00 PM and left it run all night.  It was 68 degrees (F) in the shop this morning with everything powered up - heat exchanger and ceiling fans running.  We're working in the shop today in shirt sleeves and it's up to 6 below (F) now, which is supposed to be our high temp for the day.

Only 24 gallons of diesel fuel from 9:00 last night to 6:00 this morning.  I don't consider that too bad to heat 10,000 sq ft, plus power it, overnight so it was nice and warm in there this morning.  No farting around firing an outdoor wood-fired boiler either.  I sure don't miss that thing.  The cogen puts out about 250,000 BTU and the harder we work the generator the more heat we can get from it.  So when it's cold we turn on everything we can find and leave it on just to work the generator harder and get more heat from it    ;D

FIRST... cook with gas (until you can make your own), same gas or fire for hot water (once a day).
Forget air conditioning and use fans. (very light on battery bank).

Sorry, but you can't even get LP gas to come out of the tank at the temperatures we get here in the winter time.  Lighting charcoal fires under LP tanks to try to get enough tank pressure to run anything gets really old really fast.

And we don't forget air conditioning - we got it because it's really nice in the summer.  Fans are only good to circulate hot air in the summer time, and cold air in the winter time, from one place to another - and they're a total waste of otherwise perfectly good power unless they're blowing thru a heat exchanger.
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« Reply #55 on: January 21, 2013, 02:47:37 PM »
Chris do you realize that is about 30% better fuel efficiency than a Herman NelsonBT400-NEX-D  http://herman-nelson.com/product.aspx?prod=1&gclid=CPCwjeWY-rQCFXDLtAodPHgAAg  and you get electricity to boot. That's great!
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« Reply #56 on: January 21, 2013, 02:58:58 PM »
Chris have you looked at liquid withdrawal from your LPG tank with a water or electrically heated vapouriser, I did some wiring on a place that used atmosphere generators for metal treatment and they had to use butane which freezes at 0 to +1 C so no chance of vapour withdrawal.

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« Reply #57 on: January 21, 2013, 03:17:12 PM »
Chris do you realize that is about 30% better fuel efficiency than a Herman NelsonBT400-NEX-D  http://herman-nelson.com/product.aspx?prod=1&gclid=CPCwjeWY-rQCFXDLtAodPHgAAg  and you get electricity to boot. That's great!

Yep.  That's what made the Cummins B-series legendary, man.  We can get marginally more heat from it if we load the generator harder.  But then fuel consumption goes up too.  Otherwise it burns slightly less than 3 gal/hr with normal loads of 10 kW or less on the generator running the cooling system at 160F.  If we work it harder and get it up 180F then it burns about 3.5 gallons/hr.

It's just a little 3.9L 4BT.  Amazingly, the larger 5.9L 6BT (like used in my Dodge pickup) gets about the same fuel economy (22 mpg @ 60 mph road speed) running a 7,500 lb Dodge pickup down the road.  I was going to put in a 6BT but had no need for a 80 kW generator to keep it loaded so it would put out decent heat.  We have no problems keeping the little 3.9L at 160 degrees with 10-15 kW load on it.  If we bump the load up to 20-25 kW, then we can get it up 180.  At full load it'll get up to 190F and then we can get around 350,000 BTU out of it.
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« Reply #58 on: January 21, 2013, 03:26:57 PM »
Chris have you looked at liquid withdrawal from your LPG tank with a water or electrically heated vapouriser, I did some wiring on a place that used atmosphere generators for metal treatment and they had to use butane which freezes at 0 to +1 C so no chance of vapour withdrawal.

LPG is a hassle I don't even want to deal with.  The stuff has to be stored in a capsule and it contains no real BTU energy/gallon in the first place.  Plus I can't buy the stuff at any decent price.  I can buy #2 diesel fuel by the contract tanker load and get it for 30% less money than what you pay for it at the pump.  And it stores easy, throw a little Power Service in it and it flows at 50 below**, and it's got some real BTU's in it.

**When you talk temperatures we don't go by C.  zero C was based on something totally useless like when water freezes, or something like that.

Water never un-freezes here in the winter so the "F" scale was developed.  zero F is based on how fast a stream of pi$$ freezes before it hits the ground, which is a lot more useful in our climate    :o
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« Reply #59 on: January 21, 2013, 04:03:37 PM »
I have given up on LP/NG generators, don't want the hassle of LP not moving at -15 like it was this morning and the NG company wants a $70 a month standby generator meter fee plus they would triple my gas price. Pass. I will save up for an electric start diesel gen.

-15 this morning, tossed a cup of hot water in the air and it flash froze. Crawled back in bed til noon where I was toasty warm!

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« Reply #60 on: January 21, 2013, 05:37:47 PM »
I will save up for an electric start diesel gen.

Good luck getting that started in the winter too.  We got a 12V circulation pump that circulates the warm coolant from the shop thru the cogen engine to get it warm enough to start in cold weather.  It had been shut down since Friday.  When I went to start it at 8:00 last night it would've even turn.  I ran the circulation pump off the 12V battery for one hour.  But the coolant temp coming back from the engine was at -10 for the first 20 minutes.  I got it up to about 25 degrees F coming back from the engine after an hour and that took enough drag off the cylinder walls so it would roll over and start with a shot of ether sprayed in it.

-15 this morning, tossed a cup of hot water in the air and it flash froze.

For pete's sake - you're wasting a perfectly good cup of Human Anti-Freeze on that experiment?   ;D
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« Reply #61 on: January 21, 2013, 06:02:35 PM »
Chris do you realize that is about 30% better fuel efficiency than a Herman NelsonBT400-NEX-D  http://herman-nelson.com/product.aspx?prod=1&gclid=CPCwjeWY-rQCFXDLtAodPHgAAg  and you get electricity to boot. That's great!

Yep.  That's what made the Cummins B-series legendary, man.  We can get marginally more heat from it if we load the generator harder.  But then fuel consumption goes up too.  Otherwise it burns slightly less than 3 gal/hr with normal loads of 10 kW or less on the generator running the cooling system at 160F.  If we work it harder and get it up 180F then it burns about 3.5 gallons/hr.

It's just a little 3.9L 4BT.  Amazingly, the larger 5.9L 6BT (like used in my Dodge pickup) gets about the same fuel economy (22 mpg @ 60 mph road speed) running a 7,500 lb Dodge pickup down the road.  I was going to put in a 6BT but had no need for a 80 kW generator to keep it loaded so it would put out decent heat.  We have no problems keeping the little 3.9L at 160 degrees with 10-15 kW load on it.  If we bump the load up to 20-25 kW, then we can get it up 180.  At full load it'll get up to 190F and then we can get around 350,000 BTU out of it.
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Chris in 89 I bought one of the first generation Dodge Cummins  for its first 200,000 miles it was never unhooked from the trailer  I built for it. It had only 2 issues #1 was the radiator that Dodge used was too small so when the truck was 2 months old  I pulled it  and stretched the tanks enough to put a 4 core in it to replace the factory 2 core. Then when it was 6 months old I pulled the little cav pump and carried it to a buddy who worked for Cummins and told him it was for marine application so he set it up for 300 HP -5% then said drive that boat of yours by sometime and I'll make sure the valves are adjusted correctly. At 220,000 miles I dropped the panand rolled a set of bearings in as insurance It really didn't need them but I already had the pan off.
At 400K it got totaled by a 17 year old punk I bought it back from the ins and parted it out sold the parts for nearly what the truck cost new.
 the 2nd issue? it only had a single cab.
  I have a bud who put one of those 4BTs in his Suburban , He's been running it for 8 years He also has the 5.9 ISB in a B61 Mack, loves it
I live so far outside of the box, when I die they will stretch my carcass over the coffin

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Re: starting from scratch in tennessee, offgrid machine shop.
« Reply #62 on: January 21, 2013, 06:08:04 PM »
Chris does that 4bt cogen come as an inverter generator as well? or set up for 230/400 50HZ?
 I don't mind 277/480 as I have ZERO split phase use for 120v
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Re: starting from scratch in tennessee, offgrid machine shop.
« Reply #63 on: January 21, 2013, 06:11:32 PM »
 But I do need 230 or 240v
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Re: starting from scratch in tennessee, offgrid machine shop.
« Reply #64 on: January 21, 2013, 07:09:04 PM »
Chris.

I grew up degs. F and when I worked in AC all the sums were done in F even the BTU is calculated in F...... Then the UK decided to go decimal. So me and everyone in my age group had to unlearn and re model our thinking.  I have however managed to still cut, shape, bend and drill holes in inches. I can visualise thous. I can turn metal to thous, surface grind to .001 of a thou so I don't need convincing, and I won't buy a ruller or tape that doesn't have inches on it.



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Re: starting from scratch in tennessee, offgrid machine shop.
« Reply #65 on: January 21, 2013, 07:39:40 PM »
Chris does that 4bt cogen come as an inverter generator as well? or set up for 230/400 50HZ?
 I don't mind 277/480 as I have ZERO split phase use for 120v

Yep.  The only difference is the generator head and it runs at 1500 rpm instead of 1800 so it's de-rated to 35 kW.  But you ain't going to get US 240 split phase @ 60 Hz from it with the generator only running at 1500.
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