On 3 Jan 2006 13:58:38 -0800, jim rozen
wrote:

Those who suggest a flywheel is bad say that rotary converters
deliver transient power to the generated phase by allowing the rotor to
slip, and a flywheel prevents this.

Those who suggest a flywheel is good say that that flywheels store
rotational energy and will this is made available to transient loads.

Those two preceeding statements are pure paraphrase on my part, and
I of course apologize if I have mis-represented anyones comments.
But there's no empirical data out there as far as I can tell.

It wouldn't be that hard to instrument and measure.

Jim

Dont forget a nice heavy rotor IS a flywheel.

Gunner

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and for someone else to pay when things go wrong.

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