On Sun Mar 04 07:52:25 PST 2018 ev@lists.evdl.org said: >>> Is it possible to build a voltage regulator that adjusts the voltage >>> QUICKLY in order to get something closer to a square wave output rather >>> than the normal sine wave? >> >>If the genset is old, it probably doesn't have any elaborate electronic >>controls to regulate voltage and frequency. Does it just have some kind >>of simple mechanical or electrical governer to set the ICE speed, and >>thus the output frequency? > >This is an older generator head from a military diesel genset. >It did have controls to adjust the voltage and the frequency, but I haven't >dug into the actual generator head in detail yet.
Found the manuals for this unit. The generator head does have connections for a "DC Excitor", both stator and rotor. Seems to expect around 60VDC (from looking at one of the test instructions.) I do wonder if this could be varied fast enough so that the generator output is closer to a square wave. -- Tigers prowl and Dragons soar in my dreams... _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
