BILL BAUER wrote in a message to Alec Cameron:
> Good news, bad news. Your 10HP single phase induction motor will work OK
> as a generator but ONLY while the grid is OK. Open the throttle 
> on the engine and see the meter spin backward. Great!
 BB> According to the way I take what you are saying about the meter 
 BB> spin backwards when you open the throttle on your engine hooked 
 BB> to an induction motor then its not only going to spin backwards 
 BB> because of the fact of power going into it from the "wrong" 
 BB> direction but it's rate of spin is also going to be determined 
 BB> by whatever the frequency of the voltage might be. In 
 BB> otherwords, if it gets fed 60 cycle then it would spin 
 BB> backwards at it's normal rate and if it gets fed 120 cycle then 
 BB> it's going to spin backwards twice as fast and ect until it can 
 BB> spin no faster. would that be true?
I would think that both frequency and phase would have to match pretty 
closely,  or you'll end up with some very large currents trying to flow,  
it's the *amplitude* that will determine how fast it'll spin.
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