Micro CoGen.

I wont post pics of the cat I am working on right now since this is a family forum

Not yet, I will be powder coating the freme and doing my final assembly next week with lots of pics to post

Veg I took your reccomendation and ordered the ab50 . Thanks

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Thats really neat .  I missed a opurtunity to buy a 200 foot tall microwave relay tower on an acre of land from the phone company about 10 years ago just a few block from my house , kicked my self ever since.  It has a platform at the top 30x30 feet and would have been ideal for a wind gen project

I still havent found anything quite as cheap as the $150 2 bearing gen HF Had

Thanks, found an online price  http://www.vmisales.com/voltmaster_beltdriven/index.html

very good Ron , I will be looking for sources for solenoid valves and thermostat .

The oil fired units are rated for 200 psi  continuos so i assume they would work OK tied into the system directly .  I played with one a good while yesterday and it heats the water quickly enough to be used as a demand heater , flows eough volume to shower at a temp higher than is comfortable 

little off topic but Ron I saw this vid in your album and thought it was really neat  http://s270.photobucket.com/albums/jj85/rmarlett/?action=view&current=generatorstart1.flv

I have a number of water heating questions also . We currently use propane but I would like to be able to tie one of my water cooled gen sets into the sytem.

Is there some sort of differential valve that control when the water from the tank should circulate thru heat exchanger attached to the engine?

I also have a couple of really neat warner swasey multifuel water heaters that will burn a variety of different oils , their rated 25K btu, all stainless mil surplus . I was curious about tying one into the hot water system also for the occasion when it might be more economical to heat water with oil instead of propane .  It was originaly designed to act as a coolant heater for large trucks and gen sets in artic climates.  I dont know that its practical for heating water for household use but thought it might be a neat backup , that and I have 3 or 4 of them still in the crates I would like to do something with.   Once its up to temp they really roar and seem to heat water to hot to touch just about as fast as it can pass thru the heater


There is another version that heats air designed for the old air cooled APU thats rated 35kbtu , seems to heat my shop just fine in the winter on #2

how do you go about ordering from them ? I cant seem to find any pricing either

Quote from: hwew on September 23, 2009, 08:36:55 PM
Thats ok, Here is a nice little gas powered genset I can bring with me in my back pack when I am camping. That way I don't have to rub two sticks together to start a fire to see during the night. sure hate to piss on this thing during the night.

there was a fellow on ebay recently with some of thes O+R gen in military dress , olive drab , new in the box .

I picked one of these up from HF last week $99 http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/ctaf/displayitem.taf?Itemnumber=66619

gotcha, I know I was getting the same server busy message as a few of the other simple machines forums when that krisbarteo jackass was causing problems

Quote from: veggie on September 24, 2009, 08:19:32 AM

My vote.....the Belt drive unit with the engine at 1985 rpm makes the most kw's.

My vote also

it does for the most part , other than what happened to the old forum causing it to disappear?  Virus/hacker ?

Ill snap some pics of the air cleaner and post tommorow, its a very simple affair . I found a fram filter at walmart that measures 5" diam x 6" long with a nice thick rubber molded into each end. I machined an aluminum end cap and a base cap with a nipple to slip a rubber hose over , would have been easier to just buy the K+N mentioned in the other thread for $25 but that would be to easy .

I made the end caps for this one from aluminum , I am using the same element in my airboat and I used grey 1/2" thick pvc sheet to make the endcaps for it , fairly cheap and salt resistant