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Can you take a 12000 watt gas powered generator and replace the gas engine with a electric motor to run the generator?
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∙ 9y ago
A 15 KW generator won't likely run everything in your house, but besides that it is not efficient. You will be using more electricity to run the generator than the power would deliver. You also defeat the reason for the generator - run your house when power goes out. Now if you had a wind turbine turning a generator you have a positive contribution to house power. This is how wind power works. There are also lots of issues associated with a power transfer switch and feeding power back into the grid.
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∙ 14y ago
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∙ 9y agoYes, the generator needs an engine to turn the shaft at the right speed but it does not matter what type of engine it is.
But power is lost in the conversion process so to use an electric motor with an electric generator is a circular and possibly questionable activity.
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∙ 9y agoIn theory yes. There would be mechanical adjustments to the actual "genny" so that the electric motor will turn the coil. However, where does the electric to run the motor come from. Its a simple fact of physics that an electric motor can not be self generating. i..e you start the motor that runs the "genny" that powers the same motor. This type of option will lose some 80% of each power cycle created by the "genny" that goes to the motor that turns the "genny". therefore the motor will fail almost immediately as the "genny would not be able to create the volume of electric energy required to turn the motor.
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∙ 9y agoYes you could. But why? It is one method of converting from DC to AC, but the losses are high.
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∙ 8y agoAnd just exactly were are you going to get the power to run the electric motor you just installed on the generator?
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