Problem is that I'm often in the car when he's doing it !

You, too, are risking the ultimate price for his stupidity.  Get out while you can, is my advice.

Is he aware that he can be monitored for phone texts and these can be tied in with camera recordings of his car registration number and/or the phone network cells from where his text is transmitted.  This is now done routinely after serious accidents.

He is an accident waiting to happen - except that an accident is defined as an unforseen event and that description does not fit in this case.

Regards, RAB

Bob is right in most he says.

We have no idea of the size and power requirement of your new residence, or your expectations of lifestyle, as a family..

Yes, you can expect 60kWh every day from a good set-up6/1, but that would mean near 24/7 operation and that has not been generally achievable with a plain, unfettered, Indian clone.  Even a Dursley original would need some downtime for service, maintenance and repairs.

Yes, there are bigger engines and uprated versions; higher speed or bigger capacity. 

The original 6/1 was long lived and unstressed.  The rest are alll a compromise of some sort on the original concept.

As a fresh starter, your enthusiasm is high.  It may dip sharply when the reality of the situation arrives in a somwhat abrupt fashion.

We have no idea of your goals, pwer, co-gen (heat and power), luxurious air-con, etc etc.

When these are all put together there will be such short time between aquiring , installation, and the fall that hurried decisions will have to be made (and repented at leisure).

A turn-key installation of adequate size is your best bet, I think, with the other recommendations fromBob following on shortly. 

Shipcihef's first line sums it up, really.

Regards, RAB

Bob,

Could one drive a layshaft from the flywheel rim, or a multibelt pulley, to keep the radial loadings well within spec? 

Then you would be able to do whatever you wish from the intermediate shaft providing it's bearings were adequately designed for the loads?

Ok some more energy losses with the set-up, but possibly like some of those other users, if you don't need all the horses at maximum torque one could settle for a few % losses by transferring from higher speed HP to a lower speed (more torque) shaft, or whatever.

Regards, RAB

I've NEVER seen any lorries here in the states!

A truck over here is what you might call a SUV or is a tipper lorry - a skip on wheels.

Oh, and gas is actually a gas not a volatile liquid hydrocarbon mixture over here.  Now it contains -ols and other components, of course.  I reckon petrol is a much better descriptive word, but not sure of its original derivation.

One has to remember that the US is really only a small part of the world!

lol,

RAB

As I see it:

Thermodynamics predict that the higher the compression (higher the air charge temperature, etc etc) the more efficient the energy conversion will be.  There are limitations to any particular engine - like lubrication, size of bearings, (loading issues, etc), cooling... the list goes on.

Some of the power is always used to drive the supercharger.  It works throughout the rev range.  No power is required from the mechanics to drive a turbo which could be effectively stationary at idle, but it does have to contend with high temps - hence the oil supply is for cooling as well as lube and probably the cooling is the more important issue.

A blower can give as much pressure boost as you would wish - just need different designs for different pressures - it is, after all, only a large air compressor.

So blowers tend to increase bottom end torque and turbos only come into their own further up the rev range and generally need a waste gate on a variable speed engines where a large percentage of the available energy recovery will be lost IF good boost is required at lower revs.

Comparing the designs for a fixed speed engine will be vey different than a variable speed one.

Most fixed speed engines use a turbo (probably without a waste gate) these days.  They are correctly sized for that one speed (that one exhaust gas velocity).  Most engines do not need the slow speed boost, so why use a blower or a turbo which will have to waste some of the waste gas energy (via the waste gate).

There is no problem in metering the oil flow to a turbo (or the pressure) and having an auto engine shut-down on fault.

Overall, it seems irrelevant to a 6/1.  The engine is designed for longevity at that specific power outut.  Longevity and simplicity are the virtues of the design.  There will always be someone who wants more out than they put in.

Regards, RAB

12 volt?

Maybe the newer ones but i think all the ones I have used (in the distant past) were 10.5V - they needed a voltage stabiliser.  Perhaps the memory is not so hot but IIRC, both the fuel sender and temp senders were fed from the same supply.

Regards, RAB

It all burns.
It all makes the same smell.
Its all makes your heart stop.......


But DC can make you hold on tight to it rather than throw you across the room?

Regards, RAB