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I heard about the diesel electric concept from a friend and he didn't have a lot of details, but from what he knew it sounded really interesting. I was wondering if someone could give me some details on to what this new technology really is, and how it works. Thanks!
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Hi, this may be a stupid question but im a city slicker planning on campong and i want to buy a honda generator, What kind of fuel does it use? where do i get it? thanks.
ask the people in the store where you purchase the generator. most generators use regular gasoline, but some bigger ones use diesel.
I would like to know how deep US Navy submarines usually go, how deep they can go without damage, and how long they can stay underwater. How do they obtain fresh air? Are most submarines today nuclear or diesel? Why don't subs have windows? How do they get supplied? What are qualifications to serve on a submarine?
All the other answers have been pretty much off base. Why would any submarine need to go greater than 2000 feet? Imagine the pressure on the seawater systems. Tons of leaks, no matter how good it's engineered. But anywayAll depth and speed capabilities of US submarines are classified. All US submarines are currently nuclear powered, but have a diesel generator as a sort of underway emergency electrical power, usually not run. Clean air for the crew's life support, and normal ship's systems is made via an oxygen generator that separates hydrogen and oxygen found in water. However this is inadequate for running the ships diesel. The ship does have a sort of blowhole called the snorkle, that can intake fresh air from the surface while maintaining the boat underwater to be used for the diesel, or to ventilate the ship very effectively with fresh air. This is always welcome, because oxygen content of fresh air is normally higher than that of the recirculated air. Also, the recirculated air smells like chemicals and makes your clothes smell and your cigarettes taste like garbage. Submarines don't have windows that go out, because it would be pointless underwater, and on the surface the boat is steered from the bridge. Clean water is made from steam, provided from the ship's reactor. The time spent underwater is only limited by food. Qualifications are stringent, in that you have to be medically and psychologically sound, and you have to be qualify for and be able to do the job to which you are assigned.
Diesel trains use electric motors because the low-end torque is much greater than a mechanical drive drive train, I was wondering, since low-end torque is essential to starting with heavy dead weight, why more trucks and SUVs don't have electric motors on the wheels?
For most part, it has to do with reliability. A train runs on a set track, so no ups and downs and bumps and whatnot. Nothing under the tracks that'll come up and snag the bottom, that sort of thing. A truck on the other hand, do drive over things, and the wheels go up and down bazillion times, and all that. A truck's wheel hubs are designed to be as simple and robust as possible for maximum reliability. Adding a motor to the hub would decrease its ground clearance, decrease reliability, and if one of the motors fail the vehicle can't really run on the rest (assuming all wheels are powered) as it produces asymmetrical thrust. So you have to disconnect the matching one on the other side. The designers basically judged that currently, the technology cannot compensate enough for the advantages to outweigh the disadvantages. A while back, Ford was considering a system called gas-operated launch assist. Basically, it operates similar to the way a hybrid stores electricity generated from braking, and releases it back for acceleration. However, instead of doing battery/motor/generator, it uses a compressible gas as the energy storage medium. While driving and braking, gas is compressed into the the cylinder. When the start starts moving again, the gas is allowed to expand, adding a bit of oomph to the launch. Apparently, that idea didn't go anywhere, but it was interesting. And Dodge actually built a special hybrid Durango that only had the gas engine drive one set of wheels, and electricity drive the other set of wheels. It is much easier and cheaper to make than a regular hybrid, but apparently the traction control is giving them problems to coordinate between the two drivetrain systems. --- Kasey C, PC guru since Apple II days Borg Burgers: Have it our way. Yours is irrelevant.
How would i get people to fund a bomb shelter. Of course i will guarantee them a spot for them and there closest 4 family members. I want to stock it and build. I also want to have at least enough food to live for 6 months for at least 25 people. I will also want a ton of water (not literately a ton). Also some sort of water purification system, ventilation, and a diesel generator.I only want to shovel out about 5 thousand of my own cash.Tell me about how many people i need, how to get them. Maybe some places to get supplies.Thank you (:
You think you can find 25 people each willing to dump a MINIMUM of 100 grand into the project?
I just learned there are 2 cycle diesel engines.What machines use them?Also,Why does Jeep still use an in-line 6 cylinder as opposed to a V-6?
Many locomotives use enormous supercharged 2-stroke diesel engines. I understand that the newest Jeeps will use a V6, but the reason they stayed with the inline was that they had no reason not to use it. The engine fit, the tooling was paid for, and it worked.
i could only find a weight on one website and it said around 8,000 lbs. This one is rusted out and were planning on taking it in for scrap normally we would cut it up and take it in but this thing is a monster im thinking about renting a flatbed if it is 8,000 it would be worth it. The cooling coil and somekind of box with all the controls has been removed but they probobly werent any more then 500 lbs
That weight should be very close minus loss to rust. I would call a scrapyard first to get an idea of what they are paying, especially because part of it is a diesel engine and there are guidelines with some yards how they will accept machinery, such as clear of any fluids. The copper or aluminum wires and generator cores will probably be most valuable parts and might be worth removing and forgetting the rest depending on what the scrap yard says about the engine and rusted steel shell is worth. It will be a hard move, even for a flatbed truck because the little winch will have to pull that generator which is super heavy and dead weight. Final thing to look into is whether there is any value in any part of it. This is a very popular size generator and is still produced today except with Cummins diesel engine, maybe someone has an older one with same engine and their block is cracked!?
I want to build a diesel engine driven generator. The type of gen I have is asynchron, 400/690 V, 7,5 kW, 9,4 kVA and I was told that I need to stimulate it with capacitors (the unit is supposed to work without connection to a public netstand-aloneisland-service). Who can give me instructions how to do the el. part, size/type of capacitors etc?
Because it lacks a separate field circuit, an induction generator cannot produce reactive power. In fact, it consumes reactive power, and an external source of reactive power must be connected to it at all times [1]. So you are right that you will need a three-phase capacitor bank at the output terminals (delta-connected). How to size the capacitors? That depends on a few things. Namely what kind of loads are going to be attached to it. I presume this is going to be an emergency generator operating alone (most induction generators are used this way nowadays). In that case, your capacitor bank will need to account for the generator consuming reactive power and the loads consuming reactive power. So, if you know what you are going to connect to the generator, figure up an estimate of the total reactive power of your loads. Then estimate how much reactive power your generator consumes (not sure how to do this; maybe estimate from your 7.5kW and 9.4kVA ratings?). Finally, to size your capacitors equate the total power consumed by gen and loads to this formula: estimated_3phase_power_consumed 3*(line-to-line_volt)^2/X where X 1/(2*pi*freq*C) Solve for C and there you go. My source indicates that the output voltage for an induction generator can vary quite a bit with varying inductive load, so bear that in mind and maybe oversize the caps a bit. Also, the types of capacitors should be able to withstand AC obviously and be rated within your expected operating temp, etc, etc. Good luck.