Hi Charles Bowman, hope you are having a nice day
Tuesday, 8 July 1997 18:15:16, Charles Bowman wrote to Jock Rogan
Subject: Re: Generators
=>> The Subject: Generators The Date/Time: Thursday, 3 July 1997
=>> 22:36:20 To: Roland Balke Quoting: Jock Rogan
JR>> All-be-it that the engine would probably only need to run
JR>> slightly above idle:-)
 CB> Which is why I'd avoid a 2-stroke motor, they're noisy,
 CB> inefficient and develop very little torque, plus they waste oil.
 CB> Their only real saving grace is that they have fewer parts, but if
 CB> that was real important to me I'd find an old Mazda rotary engine.
The mates' racing go-kart uses a JAP motor fed on ethanol. It idles at about 
1800 rpm. Don't think you would want to spin an alternator at much more than 
that?
If it is only used as a "back-up" oil use v corrosion might be worth the 
st.
Personally, I would use a small two cylinder four stoke motor and feed it 
G.
But that wasn't the original quiry.
 -=> Yours sincerely, Jock Rogan <=-
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