What is the difference between a gas driven generator and a wind driven generator?
I am looking to make a wind driven generator. My thoughts are that if I buy a gas driven generator it has all the converters and such so I can just plug in and go.I can adapt it to wind. I can buy a gas generator without a motor. Or does the gas driven one have to much torque compared to a wind generator?
I hope this makes some sense.
Wind generators have a great deal of gearing because the blades of a wind generator move slowly and provide considerable torque from long blades (and can't move faster because the turbulence from one blade messes up the next one) while a generator is more efficient the faster it turns to rotate the fields past each other faster. There can be only limited speed regulation of a wind generator and that comes from an expensive hub to rotate the blades, so smaller ones regulate the voltage output and turn the blade unit edgewise to the wind to stop it.
Motor driven generators do (part of) their regulation by controlling the speed of the gas motor. So you would be buying a unit that would be missing the part that gets regulated and get control circuitry that has nothing to connect to.
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