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Originally Posted by pgfpro
Lots of good info in your comments, much appreciated.
I'm going to take your advice and start building an engine run stand. I have enough spare engines and parts to easily make this work. This will help, like you pointed out with some RnD.
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Wow!

Glad you like the idea pgfpro.
I'm guessing a direct rubber coupled Neodymium Permanent Magnet generator is most efficient, But then you are very much limited by the rpm's you can turn the engine-genset at.
If you are going to be testing various engines; a belt drive, with different size pulleys, or a plain old gearbox would allow you to easily run the engine~genset at optimal rpm's... mostly..!
I'll do some research.
How many KW and what rpm range/gearing are we talking?