An old water pumping station in England.  According to the article I read about this station it ran for 100 years non-stop basically before they shut it down.  They fire it up a couple times a year so that people can see it in motion.

http://www.opacity.us/site147_ryhope_pumping_station.htm

If you click on the image galley link at the bottom of the page you can see some pictures of the internals.

One thing I do find interesting is the picture label Pivot.  You can see the massive brass/bronze bushing that holds the shaft, is that a gap or a shadow at the top of the shaft?     If that's 100 years with of wear that's pretty good I think.

Jason

Anyone out there have any knowledge of HR3 engines?  I can probably get one pretty cheap and it comes with PTO on the flywheel side and maybe a clutch. 

I did some searching and found the power graphs here:

http://www.fao.org/docrep/field/003/R1060E/R1060E05.htm

Looks like I could run the engine around 1500 RPM to get the lowest amount of fuel consumption and the most torque and still be able to drive a 20KW head.

I know it won't be as quite and probably not as long lived as a CS but I can probably get it for $100, so I can over look a lot for that kind of money.

If anyone has some input on burning WVO in these engines I'd love to hear it too since that would likely be my primary fuel for this engine.

Thanks,

Jason

Hello Everyone,

I've been looking into buying one of these engines for a while now but I've had a question and I'm hoping someone here knows the answer.

My ultimate goal is to use the genset as standby power for an off grid site.  I am thinking a 10/1 with a 5 or 6 KW head will be enough for most applications, but I would like to have a second identical unit on hand in the event the primary fails or I require more power.

Does anyone know what would happen if you were to bring a second genset online while the first is running?  Will the phase of the second unit fall into sync with the first automatically or will I have to run it through some sort of transfer switch that will automatically do a phase shift to bring the two into alignment?

By doing this my hope is that:

- I can run 1 engine under load at all times instead of having an oversized engine run under partial load most of the time
- I can bring one engine down for maintenance and not interrupt service
- In the event one engine fails, I have a second to carry the load until I can repair the problem.

If there is anyone who has done this in the past please let me know if there are any pit falls.

Thanks,

Jason