Introduction & question about load balancing generators [RE-wrenches]

[Bob Ellison]

<x-flowed>Carl,
Try the Trace T-240 for balancing the generator, I think it is rated for
4500 watts.

Good luck,
Bob Ellison

RE. Ellison
Alternative Energy Systems & Supplies
34642 Countryman Road
Theresa, New York. USA.
                            13691-2076


-----Original Message-----
From:	carl reuter [mailto:creuter at rocketmail.com]
Sent:	Wednesday, March 08, 2000 2:18 PM
To:	RE-wrenches at topica.com
Subject:	Introduction & question about load balancing generators
[RE-wrenches]

Hello fellow installers: I've been reading along for
the past few months and wanted to introduce myself.
I'm Carl Reuter and I've got a solar business in Santa
Cruz,Ca and serve the folks living in the local
mountains with off grid installations and an
occasional emergency back up system. Its primarily
word of mouth and I get none of the tire kicker types
and mis informed people calling about solar because
their electric bills are too high. Its a little slow
at times but the local economy is tremendous and even
the old tight wad off grid folks are retiring their 12
year old golf cart batteries this season.The biggest
problem is with the rich folks buying rural land and
wanting solar systems and taking no interest in how
the thing works and expecting it to be like grid power
without the monthly electric bills.All in all life is
good here though. My current need for more info is
concerning:How to balance out the two legs of ac
output on the average Honda type generator. In other
words,if a gennie is loaded only on one of its 120v
legs to go to the inverter/charger then the other leg
has no load and eventually the stator in the gennie
will fry. If a second charger is added it would have
to be a 24v or 48v unit to match the trace sine waves
input voltage which means stacked Todds. When I've
gone that route I have seen less then expected output
and the last time I tried adding a second charger to a
gennie that ran imbalanced for years, it actually
pushed the stator over the edge and smoked it in the
first half hour(oops). I,ve stacked traces but not
everyone wants to pay for that to keep their generator
happy. Of course there is the t former but they are
pricey as well especially in the hi wattage sizes. So
what are my best options here? I can always try
selling the customer on the 1800rpm type generators
but most people want cheaper solutions. So how do you
guys deal with this imbalance issue? Whats a good
source for 220 to 120v transformers?  Carl Reuter,Land
& Sea Solar.
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