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Generators / Re: Advice
« on: June 15, 2020, 06:49:31 PM »
You made the same mistake I made, I think it gets more views if you post it in "Lister Based Generators" :D... anyway...

Did you try "exciting" it (with a battery) to see if it came to life?

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Generators / Re: Lister ST2 with Brush 7KVA Generator
« on: June 15, 2020, 06:27:42 PM »
Here's a temporary fuel stop with solenoid which seems to work quite well... it's now starting and stopping via the DSE control.  8)


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Generators / Re: Lister ST2 with Brush 7KVA Generator
« on: June 12, 2020, 03:30:45 PM »
Here she is currently...

https://youtu.be/yhFEm3_5i24

Things still to do:
  • Excitation still needs sorting. I thought I could use DSE's D+ (for the small engine alternator) on the big (24V DC/240V AC) Brush but it doesn't seem to work. Plan B is to use a reduced battery current and it could fire at the same time as the starter motor (or turned off via a timer before the starter motor)?
  • Stopping needs a bracket to connect the stop solenoid to the fuel off/stop

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Generators / Re: Lister ST2 with Brush 7KVA Generator
« on: May 18, 2020, 08:00:09 PM »
What sort of radio suppressant capacitors work well as replacements?

In the manual it says they are 4uF capacitors (attached between the windings and the generator body) but I can't find any that are just one wire out and other terminal is where it screws to the body. I take it you can solder on the old wire to one terminal and then you need to solder on the other to go to the generator body?

Thanks,

Alex

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Generators / Re: Lister ST2 with Brush 7KVA Generator
« on: May 16, 2020, 05:22:20 PM »
By the way... I had to 'shunt' (apply excitation) to get it up and running again. I suspect that last time I did it I must have supplied an excitation to the wiring. This time I had the negatives connected (AC+DC) and I just had to apply 12V to the wiring of the DC (the old 24V motor side of things) and it instantly turned on.  8)

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Generators / Re: Lister ST2 with Brush 7KVA Generator
« on: May 11, 2020, 03:06:12 PM »
This ST2 got put on hold, kind of...  ;)

Here it is currently (Youtube link):

https://youtu.be/pmEmZY5gU1k

I've got a DSE3110 which I'll get wired in... I was hoping to find someone else who's done it for a Lister?  ;D

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Generators / Re: Lister ST2 with Brush 7KVA Generator
« on: September 23, 2018, 04:56:32 PM »
Ha ha!  ;D

Now we are free of the selenium rectifier I put on a bit of load this time... 3KW heater, 1.2KW heater and a 0.5KW lamp done with ease!


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Generators / Re: Lister ST2 with Brush 7KVA Generator
« on: September 23, 2018, 01:24:40 PM »
Hi Bob,

At the moment I have no wiring present bar the 5 wires exiting the alternator... I noticed that the black DC and the blue AC neutral are normally wired together, so I did that and this time I saw it count up to 235V   :D

Alex

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Generators / Re: Lister ST2 with Brush 7KVA Generator
« on: September 22, 2018, 01:31:16 PM »
Well, I've wired it up and it only reaches 12V  :-[

I've got the near two connections (that comes off the slip ring) as the AC and the far two (that heads back together toward the windings) are the DC. Is this right?

The two I've got as DC, one was yellow with 'R1' on it and the other one was coloured red (now I've coloured it black and red because that is the only colours I've got!)

Do I need to apply a ‘shunt’ or something? When I tested the old circuit with a volt meter I saw 230V and batteries were disconnected?


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Generators / Re: Lister ST2 with Brush 7KVA Generator
« on: August 30, 2018, 01:51:46 PM »
I don’t think the millennials will do up anything... they’ll chuck it in the ‘recycle bin’ and ship it abroad while they’ll just buy a new one.  ;D

Good photo! Is it 40W or 60W it needs to set it off. I doubt these days many things would set it off... turning on a LED light for example!

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Generators / Re: Lister ST2 with Brush 7KVA Generator
« on: August 30, 2018, 12:15:31 PM »
This is the first time I have done up a Lister and the first time I’ve done up a generator too! I really like the way Listers are set up and running a low rpm too. I was missing the wall mount cabinet so rather than carry on the 24V system I put on a ring gear and starter motor, took off the solenoids and instead added a fuel tank. I will add a solenoid to turn on/off the fuel and I’ve ordered a DSE 3110 which will switch on and off.

I had done up a few tractors and stuff but a random stroke put pay to that (I only have one functioning arm and a dodgy leg now) so I needed something a little smaller to do up!  :D

https://youtu.be/_KATZC_0N-E

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Generators / Re: Lister ST2 with Brush 7KVA Generator
« on: August 30, 2018, 09:09:11 AM »
Thank you Bob, your internals are very clean compared to mine!  ;D

It looks like you have quite a bit more load on your resistor than mine too!

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Generators / Re: Lister ST2 with Brush 7KVA Generator
« on: August 29, 2018, 10:06:55 AM »
Thanks!  :D

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Generators / Re: Lister ST2 with Brush 7KVA Generator
« on: August 29, 2018, 07:58:04 AM »
Yes, but I need to know what wires go to where on the new rectifier as I don’t have any experience of generators!  ;D

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Generators / Re: Lister ST2 with Brush 7KVA Generator
« on: August 28, 2018, 08:32:35 PM »
Thanks, I’ve got the drawing that covers the actual alternator case itself. It shows the rectifier plus a resistor, but the resistor only has two wires on the same connector to it... almost like the full load voltage has been set by someone to be the minimum.  ???

“Increasing the resistance [snip] increases the full load voltage”

The rectifier has no markings to it, its only got the Neutral wire to the AC, then 3 unmarked wires going to the unmarked rectifier. There’s two wires to both ends of the middle horizontal bar/connector and one going to the top right horizontal bar/connector. The wire going to the top left bar/connector is the Neutral AC wire.

Does anyone know what wires go where, save me having to work out what wires go where inside the coils  ;D

It does work the way it is, at least it puts out 237V, but I didn’t check load.



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