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glassblower:
Yep, have it covered with both a 8 1/2" and 9 1/4" pulley for both 6/1 and 8/1.  Long term will probably automate the start / stop with a micro controller and monitor speed and temperature. I think BruceM did something similar to his. Too much on my plate at the moment, trying to get a barn concreted with PEX in the floor, designing and building a tilting pole structure for two solar arrays with 12 panels each, getting power trenched in back from the main road and clearing trees for a house maybe next year. Gets harder to do every year as I get older and I'm over 60 now.  This Lister project is more of a fun project than work with a future purpose to me. 

ajaffa1:
I know exactly where you are coming from, I`m just short of retirement myself. Doing stuff just gets harder every day. I`m a bit ahead of you, my shed is done, still got to do the solar and an awful lot of landscaping and tree clearing. Hope to have it all done before I fall off the perch.
What sort of controller are you looking at for the CS setup?

Bob

glassblower:
After ajaffa1 mentioned 6/1 and the 8/1 I was thinking about my Automann 8/1 flywheel remembering they were bigger. They are 24" flywheels so I need to find a 11 1/4" pulley for that engine. The Automann needs going through and I was told by someone that these engines were brought in for the Amish and usually abused. I might see if I can get on Butch's rebuild waiting list and take it down to him for an overhaul.

The controller I was planning on using is a PLC (programmable logic controller) left over from an electric project I did. Probably either a small Allen Bradley or Proface I have laying around. They are basically an industrial micro like the ones I use in my other life. They have analog inputs as well as discrete inputs and simple to program.

If you are into arduino, Automation direct now makes an industrial version with modules and cards called Productivity Open. They're nice because there's no soldering, and open circuit boards and they clip on a DIN rail and have terminals.

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