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Old 10-08-2012, 01:16 PM   #265 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by electronFarmer View Post
I may enhance the gas generator with GEET, PICC, and / or HHO.
I have a 3 cylinder diesel generator that can kick the crap out of any gas generator you mod with GEET, PICC HHO or what ever in the fuel economy and power production department.

Its been tested thousands of hours and is able run a 2kw load (not even half load) and consumes about 1/3 gallon of fuel per hour.
And I haven't even done any mods to it, I would like to delete the belt driven fan and put a larger radaitor on it with a thermo switch controled 110v fan and delete the battery charging alternator and replace it with one of my 110v battery chargers or a salvaged 12v wall plug in power converts.
I think just those 2 mods would drop fuel economy to about .25gal/hr at 2kw.
It will still fit in the back of a S-10 sized pickup with plenty of room to spare even with mods.
Also the external regulator will allow the generator to be run at 50Hz, which means better fuel economy for light loads.

The diesel engine is a kabota 3cylinder 0.9L non-turbo, the generator is an externally regulated 4-pole (1800rpm) 6kw single phase kohler. Nothing to hid or anything magical here.

If I ever started using it a lot more again I would put a K03 turbo charger (have 2 on hand), with intercooler (have a few that would work), 3 phase 9 to 10kw generator and water injection on it.
No black magic vodoo fringe science. Just improving widely used systems in well known conventional ways.
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