On Feb 17, 9:57*am, Robert wrote:
On Feb 17, 8:49 am, "Existential Angst" wrote:
"Pete S" wrote in message
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I don't understand your question.
If you mean "capacitors" when you say "caps", I don't *know how they would
deal with output voltage regulation in any meaningful way.
Ditto. *ergo my Q. *I guess they must in some fashion, just like you balance
rpc's with caps.
What kind, model and serial number *of genset do you have that currently
has no voltage regulation built in to it?
http://www.generatorsales.com/order/...Generator.asp?...
modified for tri-fuel.
It is regulated, just not to 1 or 2%, a swing of 230 to 250 V, from 50+ amps
down to zero amps.
If you at mid-load it's 240 V, *that's +/-10V, which is not terrible, but
it's not 1% either.
Assume no electrical-type regulation at all. *There is something between the
generator itself and the gas engine that ups fuel flow with load,
maintaining a semi-constant voltage. *An AVR sharpens this up.
I don't quite understand how this works, and part of the intent of Q was to
shed some light on this.
I also figgered that if the feedback between generator and engine was good
enough, AVR wouldn't be needed.
So basically I"m curious about the design of these things.
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EA
Pete Stanaitis
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I thought that it was a possibly that you had heard
of a "capacitor regulator' that I haven't, after 35
years as an electronics design engineer. *So I
googled the subject and was unable to come up
with a single circuit/instance where a capacitive
system was used as a regulator....
I have the background to comment on the subject,
so if you will provide a website that *comments
on how a capacitor or "capacitive circuit" can
regulate the output of a genset, I will study it
and give you an opinion, which, obviously you can
accept *or reject....
*I don't post this to insult you, but I really don't
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It's not hard to find discussion of caps as voltage
regulators. Here's an example, about a third of the
way down in this thread:
http://www.smokstak.com/forum/showthread.php?t=16338
Seems like a pretty crappy thing to find though on a
$3000 generator.