[SEL] Looking for small alternator.

[Bob Willman]

	There is a "butt buggy" at Portland powered by a battery with a
gasoline engine driving a 28v - I believe - generator to charge the
batteries. It was in the large engine area. 


Bob Willman
Bowling Green, Ohio
The Eagle's Anvil
WB8NQW

-----Original Message-----
From: sel-bounces at lists.stationary-engine.com
[mailto:sel-bounces at lists.stationary-engine.com] On Behalf Of Elden DuRand
Sent: Friday, August 28, 2009 5:57 PM
To: Stationary Engine List
Subject: [SEL] Looking for small alternator.

Gang:

I'm planning on making a butt-buggy to be powered by the Homemade Hvid
engine.  I would like to use a novel (but not revolutionary) method of
driving the tranny, though.

I plan to generate 12 Volts to keep a small battery charged and to run a 12
Volt motor connected to a Sears Suburban (Interstate) transaxle.

What I'm looking for is a small alternator that will make a maximum of 20
amps at 14 volts.  I'd prefer a unit that requires an external regulator
(which I will design and build).  I will make a flat belt pulley to drive it
from a flywheel of the engine at around 4,000 RPM.  Used is fine as long as
it works.  Cheap is excellent, as this project is running way over budget.
:-)  What else is new??!!

Whatcha got?  What can you suggest (make and model of something I can get
the alternator off of at a junkyard.

Thanks and take care - Elden DuRand
http://www.oldengine.org/members/durand 


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