The penultimate paragraph in your reply is enough to make me feel like hiding under the table. "Star and delta wiring, Capacitance, flashing field windings, frequency, AC/DC, 3 phase Rectifiers, voltage sag, C2c configurations....."!
I really just like the idea of having electricity during a power cut something none of my wealthy neighbours have. I have a small very noisy Yanmar L48 generator I have the Lister project which may at some stage become a 12v system with an inverter and theres a 2 stroke Chinese generator that was sitting for 3 years now it hunts and splutters, needs a carburettor I think. The Lister really needs a total rebuild those old cement mixer engines are badly treated and parts are expensive so thats a slow burner no pun intended.
The starter that came with the generator is off a Kubota tractor it works well and is worth more than what I paid for everything it's going to be an easy sell it's Denso not Chinese rubbish.
Here's an odd thing, "Home and Away" is on television around lunchtime and it's repeated after the evening news I assume this is because nobody can believe it on the first viewing. Anyway I was out in the shed yesterday evening and the wife came out and said "stop starting those fcuked engines I can't hear a thing" I pointed out that a "fcuked" engine might not actually be able to be started and that saying stop starting is grammatically poor. She said "you're a stupid B. turn them off"
I can't win