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Puma / Dorman 6LE / MacFarlane B46B / 110 kVA Generator Resurrection
awemawson:
This afternoon I got the huge output socket / isolator fixed (6 x M6 Rivinuts) and measured up to get the cables to wire it up. Now the generator came with some very over specified cables about 3 metres long - by my measurements they are 150 CSA, and believe it or not to get round the various bends it's 2.5 metres from generator terminals to this socket, so I'd need 10 metres - now 35 mm CSA cable is just under £6 per meter and is marginal, and I've not had a quote for 50 mm CSA but it will be significant, so I've decided to go with the 'overkill' cables - after all the electrons won't mind a bit more elbow room :clap:
But a consequence of this decision is that the 50 mm brass bush I'd got to pass the cables through the cabinet wall into the switch / socket no longer is big enough. 63 mm bush on order with appropriate hole saw which works out much cheaper than buying new cables!
awemawson:
More DIN rail terminals arrived this morning, so I was able to complete the switch panel as a 'module' - this is the panel that distributes 'domestic' mains to the cabinet heater, engine heater, and battery charger to keep the generator ready to start when called for.
I also fitted a 16 amp 'Commando' input socket to the cabinet below the 125 amp output socket (socket angles ensuring that they don't clash) and then installed and tested the switch panel having put a bit of trunking in to tidy up it's wiring.
Then I AT LAST got round to putting power on the Deep Sea controller on the bench to prove that it was actually alive - rather late in the process and I'd be stumped if it wasn't, but all seems well - it went through a start up sequence reporting it's software issue, then went into 'wait' mode waiting for a button press - phew it works, I was rather dreading this test.
hermetic:
getting close to finished Andrew, I am having to use extreme self control to prevent over-excitement at the prospect of an induction furnace. Molten metal on tap! you lucky man! As it happens I need to melt some copper, but I am working towards it too, though sadly, it will be less refined than an induction jobbie. Keep up the good work!
Phil.
awemawson:
Of course Phil I have no certainty that the electronics of the Induction Furnace still works :scratch: It's well over ten years since I used it . . . . all those capacitors going dry . . . etc etc.
definitely a softly softly tip toe towards it sort of approach or else :zap:
russ57:
That second photo with the domestic input socket certainly puts the output into scale!
Russ
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