This alternator starts to charge my 48V battery bank at 120 rpm. At 200 rpm we generate just over 2000 Watts. It’s fairly exciting — it’s easy to maintain this level of power output with even the low grade wood we have around here. At this power level the alternator doesn’t hardly warm up at all, and things seem very efficient. We did run it up to 3KW output for a short while, but I couldn’t keep the pressure up in the boiler. Seems like the best we can hope for is about 2.5KW sustained… which is great! Much better than I’d hoped.
http://www.otherpower.com/steamengine.shtml
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