Q:I live in southern Indiana, and am currently living through an awesome ice storm. Anyway, my parents bought a diesel powered portable generator. It is hooked into the main panel of the house. When you crank it up and turn the lights in the house on, they flicker, as does the TV screen. It has proper voltage on each leg of the 240. I brought my generator over and everything works fine. Any ideas?

if you hooked another generator to your panel and it worked fine the new generator is the problem. unless you changed the way you hooked it up. in that case look at your connections, closely at the ground for sure

Q:Diesel generator belongs to special equipment

(including cylinders, the same below), pressure pipes, elevators, cranes, passenger ropeway, large recreational facilities

Q:Elec. bill is too high, so I wanna run 2HP swimming pool pump via generator. It's 240V. How big a generator do I need? Is diesel less to purchase than gas? Is diesel cheaper to run? Can I run the pool say 6 hrs a day on generator designed for emergency back-up?

The fuel will cost several times more than electricity.

Q:Couldn't one say with certainty they are changing the environment in ignorance?

They use some fossil fuels, but also use wind power.

Q:how exactly to fossil fuel power plants work?

Depends on the type of power plant. There are some, like coal and furnace-type natural gas plants, that burn fossil fuels in a furnace or combustor. The burning of the fuel heat water flowing through a boiler, evaporator, or steam generator to produce steam. This steam is directed to a steam turbine which turns a generator and sends power to the grid. Fossil fuels can also be used in a gas turbine (basically a jet engine mounted stationary) to directly turn a generator and send power to the grid. This is known as simple cycle. The waste exhaust from the gas turbine can be sent through a heat recovery steam generator to produce steam. This steam is directed to a steam turbine which turns a generator and sends power to the grid. This would be a combined-cycle operation. Fossil fuels can be used to run a diesel generator.

Q:If a 13L big diesel engine can produce 400 hp at 1800 rpm, and a 7L diesel can produce 400 hp at 3600 rpm, but the 13L produces twice the torque, which would produce more electricity?

The 13L would produce more electricity.The smaller generator has to work almost twice as hard to do the same job. Torque is a measure of the turning force on an object such as a bolt or a flywheel. For example, pushing or pulling the handle of a wrench connected to a nut or bolt produces a torque (turning force) that loosens or tightens the nut or bolt. Also the higher the RPM the hard the generator has to work to get to 400hp so your 13L at 3600 RPM would produce around 750 Hp

Q:I want to be able to plug my APC Smart-UPS RT 8000VA 208V into a diesel generator when our power will be down for an extended period of time. The max OUTPUT of the APC unit is 6400w. Does that mean I need at least a 6400w Generator?

yes, plus extra for loses and to charge the battery. I'd get a 10kW unit, at least. But that is a lot of power, do you actually use all of that, or is the UPS oversized? In that case you can reduce the size of the generator. .

Q:i have a plan to supply electric power supply to a colony of around 250 houses each have a load of approximately : 3 x1.5 ton air conditioners and all the other stuff of household use. voltage required is 400v 3 phase or 240 volt single phase. my question is if some one can please calculate the requirement of load for the above requirement and what size of generator is required for this load. thanks

With that large a system, you should get a quote from professionals. You need better numbers on power usage, both average and peak. And the pros can help with that. See if you can get a sample of 10 electric power bills and use that as an average to calculate the average power for all 250. Peak is difficult. They each have 4.5 ton worth AC? must be a hot climate. You can use 1.2 kW per ton, so that is 5.4 kW per house or 1.4 MW total just for the ACs Is there electric stoves, hot water, etc? that could double the above number. So we are up to perhaps 3 MW already. At that level, you probably need a higher voltage system, perhaps a 6 kV distribution system. That costs money, plus all the transformers, one per 2-4 house, plus all the underground digging. Assuming you want this underground, not on poles. Again, contact a company that does this, such as Siemens, Bosch, GE, they would be happy to give you a good quote. edit: when you look at the ratio of peak power to average power, you will see a large number, as high as 10. that means you could require a (eg) 3 MW generator although the average power is only 0.3 MW. That means the efficiency is low and the costa are high. That is why large power distribution systems are much better, as the peaks are not nearly as high, and also power companies have special units that are usually offline and come online to handle the peaks.

Q:I have noticed that our kilowatthour meter reads backwards when I use some electrical appliances, please explain why. plgperera.

are you sure u dont have a diesel generator that sells el. energy back to the grid? jk Is this first time you look at the meter? If so take a look again, should be ok.