[AT] Generator--doing funny things

Mon Jun 19 04:50:51 PDT 2006

Hi Will,

I understand what you were saying now.  The way I read the first message it 
sounded like the cart was pulling the horse.  LOL

Charlie
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> Tom stated what I had inferred in my earlier e-mail regarding  generator
> speeds. The generator must run at it's rated operating speed to  produce a 
> 60
> hertz (used to be 60 cycle) voltage. This speed will usually be  governed 
> to
> produce 3600 or 1800 RPMs depending on the generator's design.  A motor 
> running off
> the generator will spin a slightly lower RPM due to  slippage. The motor
> slips and produces torque as a result of the design of the  motor 
> windings. (There
> are some large motors that run at synchronous speeds,  3600 RPMs, for
> instance, but they are not covered in engineering 101.)
>
> I am also from the old school in that I had a career as an electronic tech
> on Air Force F-102 radar systems that were mostly vacuum tube. In college, 
> we
> first studied vacuum tube theory and then moved on to solid state. The 
> text
> books thought it was easier to teach the subject in that sequence. Now, I 
> am
> mostly working on tractors with a magneto, 4 plug wires, and nothing else
> electrical. That's fine with me.
>
> Will in MN
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