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Will attempt to find a photo of the engine.  Never started Powerline engine, purchased directly from Anand Enterprise in Early 2006.  Still on the original skid, but crate removed.

$4000CAD (HST Included) ~3020 USD. 

Located in London Ontario - Truck height loading dock available.

Steve 519.640.8971

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General Discussion / 3600RPM Generator Failure
« on: April 08, 2006, 09:13:36 PM »
Hey,
      I had a guy send me an email looking for a new motor for his generator. 



It appears that the counterbalance shaft came right out through the block.  (The motor isn't the brand that I sell)
No word on a specific cause yet.

Steve

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Listeroid Engines / The Dealer Roundup
« on: April 03, 2006, 10:13:00 PM »
I figured we have a brand round up, may as well round up the dealers as well
I'll submit what I know, others can fill in the blanks and I will update
Format: Company Name; Website; Location; Email; Phone #; Owner/Cheif Contact; Brands/products sold

Utterpower; www.utterpower.com; ???; gbrecke@vircom.net; ???; George Breckenridge; JkSon - Rebranded as PS, PS Brand ST Generator heads, Parts & Acc

???; ???; sawyer@pacifier.com; ???; Joel Koch; Same line as Utterpower

Listeroids/USA; www.listeriods.com; Rutherfordton, NC; alternateenergy@bellsouth.net; (828) 305-1354; Mike Montieth; GM90, ST Generator heads, Pulleys

Rocky Mountain Power Source; www.rockymountainpowersource.com; New Castle, CO; rmps4u@hotmail.com; (970) 876-0832; Eric Lyons; GM90 & Ashwemegah, USA Rebuilt engines

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General Discussion / Jury rigging your A/C
« on: March 31, 2006, 11:59:35 PM »
Ok,
     So I've had this idea in the my head for a while, but I want to see someone build it.  Here's what you need

1) A/C unit, and preferably the equipment to dis/re charge it properly
2) An open lake, river, stream or large continous supply of water that isn't your drinking water that's cooler than the outside air
3) Some small pumps

Now, lets say you have a window A/C unit.  (This part of the experiment we can all try)  Wait for the hotest day on record - set it to max and allow it to try and cool a very large room.  (Use fans in the room to cirulate as much air as possible.  Let's say it's 30C out, and your A/C can get your room down to 25C.  Now go outside with your garden hose and set it to spray cold water one the condenser, and you'll notice the A/C can take it down a couple of degrees, lets say to 23C.

So that just gets you warmed up to my idea.  Here are some of the factors limiting how much your little A/C can cool:

1) Surface area of evaporator
2) Aluminum/Air heat exchange coefficent of evaporator
3) Amount of air the you can move over the evaporator
4) Amount of refrigerant compressor can actually move through the lines
5-7) Items 1-3 of the condesner

So, we cant adjust item #4 without getting a bigger compressor, ie new air conditioner and away from the point.
Items 1 & 5 are hard to adjust, so for the purposes of the discussion, we'll leave them alone too.

So, we pump water from our lake over the condensor (outside) portion of our air conditioner and return the slightly heated water to waste (or some other use??).  This accomplishes two things.  The heat capacity (by volume) of water is greater than that of air, and the efficency of moving heat from Aluminum to water is much better than Aluminum to air.  So on both accounts, we have removed more heat than the stock setup.  The more water and the colder it is, the better this will work.

Ok, but dont get your mig welder out yet.  The Evaporator coils on the inside of your house will be much cooler than they were before, and the water that normally condenses on them freezes up and then your whole evaporator becomes a block of ice.  Your A/C stops cooling because no air is flowing, this is not good.  So, you need a bigger fan or bigger evaporator, either will do; but here is the third way:

Run water over the evaporator and pump it to a big radiator or smaller radiators in other areas of your house.  You may wish to use anti-freeze in this system in case it falls below freezing.  The efficively increases the suraface area of your evaporator and allows for different fan setups......  Keep in mind that you dont want thiese other radiators to fall below freezing, or the water will freeze on them as well.

You've effectivley greatly improved the efficency of your A/C.  The EPA will hate you for warming up the fishes water and leaking all that freon when you take the AC apart, but will hug you for using less kW*hrs to run your A/C.  Not tested past experiment stage.  Your milage may vary....


Steve

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General Discussion / What happened to Quinn
« on: March 02, 2006, 07:04:48 PM »
Quinnf seems to have disappeared as a user from this board.  I hope someone didn't insult/offend him....

Steve

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Hello All,
          As you may have read in my other topic, my 20kW head is here, and my Listeroid 24/2 is a few short weeks away.  So that's all fine and dandy.  I think I might make my first base out of wood, but I think that's immaterial to the rest of the discussion.

I'm looking for feedback as to the usability of different drive systems, and if anyone knows any source other than Utterpower's "Allmand Drive" that I should consider for a pulley for my generator.  I think Utterpower spec'd about a 11.1" diameter unit for the 1000RPM motors.

The generator shaft is 48mm across, and there is a keyway that I couldn't bother to measure. 

What do you have?
What did it cost?
Where did you get it?
What would you do differently?

Any ideas, suggestions and comments would be greatly appreciated.


Steve

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Lister Based Generators / Lister & Genhead are on the way
« on: December 18, 2005, 11:32:29 PM »
Hi all,
     Only my second post here, but here it goes:

I'm an owner of a company that sells Chinese engines/generators here in Canada.  We import them,  get them CSA approved, and sell them.  We sell gas engines from 1-13HP, and diesels from 3-10HP, generators to 5kW.  Anyways, in the process of negotiations for purchasing some 24-50kW 1800RPM enclosed liquid cooled gens, a supplier offered to send me a 15kW (Brushless, AVR and/or Manual voltage reg, 120/240, Volt/Amp/Hz gauge) gen head.  Of course, I accepted.

But, needing something to drive it with, and also needing an excuse to buy a Listeriod, I dug out an old email from Anand Enterprise, and ordered up a 25/2.

I cant wait to have all this stuff here, should be quite the little project.  I'm thinking about chain drive, but we'll have to see when it all gets here.  Of course, by the time I'm done it will have cost me more than the fully assembled 24kW silent unit with auto start etc etc, but just ordering something isn't much fun. 

I haven't seen anyone running such a large setup on this site, is there any reason why?  Maybe I might have the largest setup??  (And surely the only one with the CSA approval on it - *scoulds Canadians who have "forgotten" about it on thier generators*)  I'm also curious as to why every one has these ST heads, granted all of the standard arguments about brush/brushless on Utterpower, but the brushless units I've had and sold are VERY reliable. 

Thoughts/comments/ideas welcome and appreciated.

Thanks,


Steve

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