XL.1 and generator fun [RE-wrenches]

[Ezra Auerbach, DragonSun Consulting]

I have to wonder if the generator was auto start.  I've never personally
been comfortable with the notion of starting an infernal combustion
machine without a human look and smell first.  Guess it's all them trees
hovering over the outbuildings...

Ezra

-----Original Message-----
From: Kirk Herander, VSE [mailto:kirk at vtsolar.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2003 9:37 AM
To: RE-wrenches at topica.com
Subject: XL.1 and generator fun [RE-wrenches]


Group,
Over the weekend, I got a call from a customer who's Bergey XL.1 fell to
the ground. Not the tower, just the machine itself. It turns out the yaw
shaft broke in two just above the slip rings. Bergey says they've seen
"a few" like this as a result of a casting defect. it was probably
already weak, and the hurricane-remant winds pushed it over the edge,
literally. Anybody heard of this before??

PS. I also had a customer's generator shed, and therefore generator (a
Kohler 8.5 RMY) burn to the ground last weekend, as the result of a
propane leak, so the fire marshall suspects. Thank God the structure was
100' away from the house and there was no wind. Never install a
generator inside an attached structure!!!

Kirk

Vermont Solar Engineering
a Xantrex / Trace Certified Dealer Charter Member
Kirk Herander
PO Box 697
Burlington, VT. 05402
www.vermontsolar.com
www.backeastsolar.com
800.286.1252 - 802.863.1202
fax 802.863.7908

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