Obviously so, and what advantage does this bestow? Weight? The machine properly installed weighs on the order of tons.
Cost? Perhaps, but that can't be much more than $150 or so, any gain there would be very modest.
Reliability? An oversized motor would likely be more reliable than a smaller one.
Effeciency? Maybe, but as usage is very brief any gain would necessarily be very modest, perhaps even hard to measure.
Designing counter to the general practice is interesting and can be valuable, but my own experience and observation, as described, leads me to hold the opinion that it's best to spin the machine up to near operating speed befor bringing the fuel pump to run.
Best of luck.
Phaedrus
well, actually a lot of advantage except maybe weight. You have a lot wider choice of motors, maybe even to using something you have so you dont have to buy anything. Obviously 600 rpm would be the ideal starting speed, but by design, they start just as good at a lower speed. The more you can gear it down the less strain which raises the reliability on all of them.
The two motors I mentioned at the beginning of the thread I beleive were 100 and 200 dollars approximately. The 150 you mentioned was about in the middle. Granted I am spending several grand here out of being pissed at the power company and being interested in these engines and what you can do with them, but 150 bucks is still a considerable amount of money. There is a whole lot of things I can do with that 150 bucks. If anybody out there doesn't have anything to do with 150 bucks, send it to me. I'll find something to do with it LOL.
Part of ther reason for starting this thread is to get people thinking about how to do things. Not everybody here has a lathe they can chuck up a flywheel or the expertise to make a shrink fit. I am sure there are people here that don't have electric start because it costs too much. A lot of us are here to learn something from those who know more and have more experience with these motors. I thought it would be nice, rather than to say something won't work, to put our heads together and figure out how to make it work and for a way for somebody who doesn't own a machine shop to be able to build it.
I am not trying to come up with a better mouse trap, just a different way to catch a mouse. Same here, I am just looking for something different for the people who don't have all the options Some might have a couple of motors in the junk pile and like me, don't realy know if they will work or not. I am not bad at ideas but I lack the expertise to put them together. That means a lot of trial and error.
I had a lot of fun building a hydrogen generator, but I had a whole lot more fun building one with hand tools and stuff from the hardware store and the junk pile. Even better was that one of the neighborhood kids liked it enough to build one for a science project. He won a prize and kept working on it. That was when he was 12. He is 16 now, has plans for college and is now building a fuel cell. If he had needed a complete machine shop to build his first hydrogen generator, it never would have been built.