MadAdmin 
news:6ouqja5clfu5qpoms9jbr4tsq25v333a31@4ax.com Mon, 27 Apr 2015
00:02:02 GMT in alt.politics.scorched-earth, wrote: 

> Yeah I can imagine. What little I've dealt with generators has
> been moderate to freaking huge. A long time ago in a galaxy far,
> far away I got to tinker with Z80 based control systems for
> generators that usually were linked with a motor-generator setup
> that was basically an electric motor tied to a 5000lb or so
> flywheel tied to a generator. When the main dropped the
> motor-generator computer sent a start signal to the diesel
> generator computer and then sampled the frequency coming out of
> the motor-generator so it could slowly move the stators to keep 
> the frequency solid as the flywheel slowly wound down until the
> diesel signalled it was online. Then the transfer switch would
> flip and the diesel would handle things until the main came back
> up. 

That must have been awesome...
 
> I never did anything with the actual generators though - just
> trained on the controllers and got to play with some of them and
> got to scavenge one of them that used a 8085 that I was going to
> use as the basis for a robot.

Nice.. You geek you! :)
 



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