Micro CoGen.

I'd always wanted to see one in real life, but not so close that I could touch it if I tried. It lifted right before it got the the house and only took the sun room roof off, the trim along the ends of the house, sucked the ceiling under the attached carport out and sucked the garage doors into the garage. We lost one horse nine days later at the Vet School, as a result of his injuries. Two metal/steel run-in sheds for the horses that were cemented down disapeared, all the fencing went down or was sucked away, 20 acres worth of board, tape, or mesh. This place was the true meaning of "it looks like a tornado went through there." And we were the lucky ones. A guy I worked with at a previous job, was home with his wife when it hit their place. Picked the house up and dropped it in the middle of the road. His was a stick built house. His wife had head injuries but is much better now, he was OK and stayed awake through the whole thing. He lost it all. The only thing left of his house was the closlet they wehuddled in for the most part. His wife was pissed off when I talked to her, she found her freezer, some butt hole had looted her shelled pecans and left everything else.

I just joined the group a few days ago and so far it's the best group I've found for Generators, alt fuel ect yet. The folks in here are pretty nice, to the point without coming across like a butt hole. I'm looking forward to learning from you guys and contributing what I can when I can. If any of you are in Eastern, NC drop me a line and stop by sometime. There was group I was in before it shutdown, they had a page that had maap that listed the general area that everyone was from. Nothing that would compromise the idenity or location of the memebrs, but it kind of gave veryone an idea where others in their area lived. I had a tornado come through back in April, so things are still turned upside dowm here. I'm getting stuff put back right, but it's slow. I have a few tools here at home to play with, nothing fancy. A worn out BP Mill, worn 1927 SouthBend lahe, another Lrage lathe that a company cut in half a freind "loaned" me, plasma cutter MIg torch and a few other small items. Most of my stuff is well used but ussually work OK to get things done. If there's someone in my area that needs some help with something, drop me a line and come on down. Stay tuned the toons are always on at my place.

Send me some pictures of your controls you got from generac if you would. I had a tornado come throught here in April and Have not got things straight yet. In my stuff that's stored, I have a few CD's from Generac with generac controls and such. It may have something about the control you have. I'll look for them when I finish rewiring the horse barn and the G/F's off my butt. Then I can start rewiring the shop. I also have  a parts list for what comes in a "kit" from generac. It is as follows:


No specs
021927                 1.000  EA
STUD #10-32 X 2.25 FTH         
022097                 2.000  EA
WASHER LOCK M6-1/4             
022152                 6.000  EA
WASHER LOCK #10                 
022158                 6.000  EA
NUT HEX #10-32 STEEL           
022473                 1.000  EA
WASHER FLAT 1/4-M6 ZINC         
033138                 1.000  EA
SCREW HHM #10-32 X 5/8
  043116                 2.000  EA
SCREW HHC M6-1.0 X 12 G8.8       
043180                 1.000  EA
WASHER FLAT M4                   
049226                 2.000  EA
WASHER LOCK M5                   
051713                 2.000  EA
WASHER FLAT M5                   
051716                 2.000  EA
NUT HEX M5-0.8 G8 CLEAR ZINC     
052618                 1.000  EA
SCREW HHC M5-0.8 X 12 C8.8       
052619                 1.000  EA
SCREW HHC M5-0.8 X 20 G8.8       
060015                 1.000  EA
FITTING CONDUIT 90D 3/8"         
064526                 2.000  EA
SCREW HWHS #6-25 X 3/8 ZNC       
069825                 1.000  EA
BALL JOINT #10-32 RH             
098225                 4.000  EA
SCREW PFHST #2 X 5/8             
098290                 1.000  EA
ASSY MOTOR STEPPER               
0986470SRV             1.000  EA
ASY, LC ELEC GOVNR               
098782                 1.000  EA
BRACKET,STEP MOTOR               
098783                 1.000  EA
LEVER STEPPER MOTOR             
098784                 1.000  EA
LEVER,INJECT PUMP               
098941A                2.000  EA
HOUSING, GOV CONNECT             
098942A                2.000  EA
COVER, CONN HOUSING             
098958                 1.000  EA
ASSY PCB CONN INTERFACE 100"     
099345                 1.000  EA
BALL JOINT #10-32 PLASTIC             

I've also located an outfit out of Inda that will sella governor control that will regulate Hz by using the teeth off the flywheel. It comes with the controller, actuator, and mag pick up. It looks like a Woodward Knock off. For about $200 with shipping I can have a complete governor control ...If I order 100 or more of them. If I order them one at a time, it's about $350 plus shipping. I'm looking into buying used parts from big generators to use on my generator when I build it. You might say I have a little background in power generation. I also have a small load bank at home for testing like I used when I worked for the local Cummins/Onan distributor. I'm looking into using a standard PID control to regulate the Hz when I have time. I'm always screwing around with things that people say can't be done. You sound like a buddy of mine, he's an Engineer too.

I did not read the entire thread, but here's some input. Check with the local health department, they have something to do with well water. The local sanitarian will know who you can contact about soil conditions. They have to know this for doing septic systems. In here in Eastern, NC, to do your own well "for irrigation only" there's not much required. This includes for cooling purposes too. If you do decide to connect for home use, you MUST disconnect from the public water supply. You could potentially cross contaminate the public system. This has happen and can have disastrous results. An example is introducing e-coli or other bacteria into the system and someone down stream on kidney dialysis dying from it. I live with a retired State of NC civil engineer, she's also retired from local government as the health director. She's a good source of information. I'll be doing my own driven well in the next few months for my shop to cool it. I'm using a post driver I use for driving fence post that runs off my tractor to put the piping in. I'm like you, What does it matter if it's just for me. Then I listen to my "personal engineer" and it makes since why they have the rules. I'd get the water tested too. I'd never cooked a pig or turkey on the grill with a meat thermometer until I met her. I'm glad I did, I found out I was cooking them too long!

I just joined this group today. The reason I joined was becuase of this thread I found while searching ST generator ends. May I ask how to get a ST end as you described for $375.00? I just had a buddy drop off a 115 HP Isuzu Diesel from a trooper I plan to do about the same project as you appear to have succeded at. I'd like to know how you did your governor controls and such when you have time and I have some more time to follow up on it. Thanks, Floyd.