Re: [diesel_mercedes] Diesel Powered Genset

 

I'd suggest that anyone contemplating building a genset of the their very own, should first buy a copy of "The Home Power Producer's Guide to Electrical Reality", by Bill Rodgers.  Amazon knows it exists, but can't get any, I suspect it available through utterpower.com, a site obsessed with making and using home power gensets. Aside from a concise EE education, that book tells you that you want about 12 hp per 5kw ouput.  Any more power than that, and you likely will run the engine far enough off its power peak to cause  "wet stacking" and general fuel wastage  .  Since the 240 engine could be producing around 35kw at best rpm, you are likely to want a smaller engine, something in the 15-25hp range for a home genset... bk (5kw genset driven by 12 hp aircooled Deutz..) --- On Tue, 7/17/12, Nate <vwnate1@yahoo.com> wrote: From: Nate <vwnate1@yahoo.com> Subject: [diesel_mercedes] Diesel Powered Genset To: diesel_mercedes@yahoogroups.com Date: Tuesday, July 17, 2012, 2:21 PM   If you don't want to bother buying one of the zillions of near new Military Surplus ones , look on Poo-Toobe for Mercedes Diesel Generator , I saw several 240D OM616 engines powering GenSets , I don't know how they're coupled but it can't be too difficult as there are already tranny adapters to bolt your OM616/617 to a GM tranny , it's just a matter of looking up similar adapters for Marine use where they use In-Out Dog Clutches then build it..... Cheap electricity ! zowie . -Nate Shawn Wrote : The other project (that will likely come before the Cummins) is a MB diesel generator. Doing some prelim research on connecting the engine to the generator head... Any insight? Shawn near Columbus '84 300D

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