Group: alt.energy.homepower
From: philkryder
Date: Sunday, September 02, 2007 3:39 PM
Subject: Re: Parallel generators

On Sep 2, 1:02 pm, Bruce in Alaska wrote:
> In article <13dli2psmtiu...@ >,
> Dale E wrote:
>
> > How do the genny's maintain sync?
>
> with either, a very expensive Electronic Governers, or they don't, and
> things get very intersting, very fast, and the Magic Smoke appears.
> Mechanical Governers found in small and medium sized (Typically less
> than 100Kw) Gensets are NOT going to be good enough to keep the Magic
> smoke from appearing...... if you need more power than you can get out
> of your small genset, then you just need a BIGGER Genset, unless
> you got an Inverter Based Genset, that is designed for Paralleling.
>
> Bruce in alaska
> --
> add a <2> before @

hmm -
this seems very different than Neon John's response above -

Or does his answer only apply to 100kw and above?