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well forget the prime mover, especially in light of the PTO v. gasoline garbage.The alternator is really the meat and potatos. Important is number of poles i.e. RPM, and where it was wound. Really in the end, the rest doesnt matter. Chris
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I work for a major investor owned utility company in Texas. We have been udating and testing for Y2K compliance for over 2 years now. The power grid has been forced into Y2K for testing and passed. I doubt that we will lose our electrical service but I have to admit that I am doing research about purchasing an electrical generator. I live in the country and the most important need I have is to be able to pump water from my 450ft well which uses a 2hp pump. Secondly I would like to be able to power my little 145 amp wire feed welder. The welder is rated at 22amps. I own a Kabota B7100 compact tractor and ran across this group while looking into PTO driven generators. I'm still not sure about stand alone vs. PTO generators.Mike.
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I bought a 12,000 watt pto Gen. that I power with my JD 750, which runs fine up to about 9,000/10,000 watts. I chose pto because: 1. Mine is on a trailer and easy to hook up even for my wife. 2. I didn't want another engine to maintain. 3. I have a tank for diesel fuel which always has 50 to 100 gals. 4. I have elec. heat and can use this to partly heat the house.
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I just recently purchased a pto generator and I am looking forward to getting it hooked up so that I can power my house during power outages. I am tired of ice storms and hurricanes putting me in the dark for days at the time. Living in the country and being on a well, during these times I am also without water too, which makes it necessary to find another place to stay during these extended outages. I have done a bit of research here and I have found that if you already have a tractor to drive these generators, it is by far the cheapest way of getting a generator that will put out 25kw. Thats about what I will need to power up my home so I will never know that the power is out. Just keep in mind that you need 2horse power of tractor for every 1 kw you want to produce, or thats what I have been told. With a 45 hp tractor I should be able to get almost all the potential kw of this generator.
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i have had a pto generator for about 6 months and would share these observations with you .i have a generac 25kw unit with built in voltage and frequency meter. the frequency meter is in my opinion very important if you are going to run electronic equipment . since the motor is not voltage or frequency controlled you need to be able to evaluate this, motor pitch does not reliabley help you with the frequency. in other words you can not tell if the frequency changes by listening to the motor sounds. poor frequency is extremely hard on electronic equipment.i have found in my particular case that i can set the frequency on 60.7 HZ with no load and will have plenty of power to start my 75 ft well pump (1hp) without dropping below 59HZ on startup. this is the largest motor i have. this is addition to the usual house hold load. i have installed a transfer panel from gentran to safely handle the power output. this is very important to anyone planning on using a generator.the other thing you might consider is that if your tractor is powering your generator you cant use it for other things like clearing snow, etc.all in all i am happy with the generac, very well built unit. weighs about 535 lbs without the trailor. hope this helpsal
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I possess a generator and a mid-size tractor. Does anyone know of a source for a gear box to connect the generator to the PTO ?
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I'm looking for a PTO generator in the 5 to 6 Kw range to run off my Ford
1210. Does anybody make one this small? I have yet to find a manufacturer
who makes anything smaller than 12Kw.
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Just got my new Northern Catalog I noticed they had small PTO driven generators available try www.northerntool.com Jerry
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Interestingly enough...the 13kw unit w/PTO gear box is $1499. Without the gearbox=$699....Hummm, sounds like alot of money for a gear box. Bringing me to the next question. the PTO unit only needs a shaft and mount. The other unit needs a mount, and some sorta belt/pulley ratio (540rpms to 3500rpms) drive system...what to do, what to do..
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Well, I can tell you what I did. After debating with myself, I bought a stand alone welder/generator. Reasons were that I like to keep my tractor as a dirt moving machine, and also I wanted to be able to go on emergency power just by turning a few switches instead of hooking up something heavy. But the real decision-maker was having a gasoline powered welder for sticking things together.
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