Group: alt.energy.homepower
From: sylvan butler
Date: Sunday, September 02, 2007 9:01 PM
Subject: Re: Parallel generators

On Sun, 02 Sep 2007 20:02:19 GMT, Bruce in Alaska wrote:
> In article <13dli2psmtiug8a@ >,
> 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.

Not true. In fact, you do NOT WANT ELECTRONICS involved unless they are
"very expensive" because simple mechanical governors will work fine. If
one genny tries to go faster, it will naturally be loaded more heavily
and this will tend to slow it down. (Called load hogging.)

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