Fairbanks-Morse Home Light Plant - 32VDC, 600 Watts - Coolspring Power Museum
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- čas přidán 8. 11. 2022
- Fairbanks-Morse Home Light Plant
32VDC, 600 Watts
1 1/2 Hp FM Engine With
Closed Loop Radiator Cooling System
The engine is set up to run on propane,
but probably originally ran on natural gas.
100+ years ago, before rural electrification,
many farms had small gas wells for lighting
and something like this, but quite possibly
not enough flow for cooking or heating..
The presence of a gas well on a property
is now a liability for a home buyer, due to
the expense of having it plugged.
This issue happened near us a few years ago.
Note the old style knob and tube wiring,
and various old electrical devices.
The whole building is on wagon wheels
for ease of moving.
Owner uses it to charge his camper batteries.
Coolspring Power Museum
Coolspring PA
October 2022
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221013h FM Home Light Plant - Věda a technologie
"Very nice display 👍👍🇺🇸"
He really did a great job on the details and i never got to see it at night, great video !! Thank you
Really glad I caught it! It was dumb luck I did a driveabout of the field and caught it while it was running.
@@SteamCrane he really went all out with the bird nests, and I forget what else, but it was certainly the most unique display...
@@WillSmithHitandMiss 1:55 - Large rodent under gas pipe, lower left corner.
I hope the owner sees the video to know how much we appreciate his display.
@@SteamCrane 00:14 Huge birds nest up to left of fan, I think he said he even had an old bees nest but I don't recall if I saw it
That is awesome!
My guess is that engine is running at around 500 rpms or so -
The modern aircooled genrators that most have today run at 3600 rpms - they are light and portable -
But they drink fuel there runing so fast that much of the fuel is not burnt - the stench of unburnt gas is strong around air cooled generators -
also there wore out after runing a few months 24/7 - -
My power can be knocked out for months after a huricane or ice storm -
I have a old slow speed stationary generator - it runs at 500 RPMs - the rings will last about 8 yrs befor needing to be changed -
Yrs ago i ran it for 9 months after a storm - also sence it runs slow most of the fuel is burnt - it generates some were around 17 kws per gallon of fuel burned -
Modern air cooled diesels burn 1 gallon of fuel per 4 kw output and the exaust is strong -
Most of those old 32 volt hybrid farm light plants were set up so the engine would not need to be overhauled for 40 yrs - thats using a 1200 rpm engine -
The battery would last for 40 yrs also on farm light plants -
With that slow running engine with a matching set of batterys they expected a 70 to 80 yr service life out the engine and batterys -
I came from a long line of genrator electricians and as a kid there were some in the rural south that were still living in himes powered by 32 volts DC into the 70s -
Pole power was 30 cents a kw - but they could generate there own power for a few cents a kw - so they stayed with there farm light plants into the late 70s -
Thanks for the info!
@@SteamCrane each HP generates around 350 watts at 32 volts - there is generally also a loss to belt transmission - on mine I use an AC generator head and I loose 1 HP to the belts - at 120 AC and above it takes 1 HP to generate 416 watts -
In my case my engine is 3 HP and 1 HP is lost to the belts - so I have around 830 watts of usable power -
If the counter balance is in the fly wheel verses being on the crank shaft - it's best not to over load them -
The engines that have the counter weight in the fly wheel brake crank shafts easily when over loaded -
@@able880 Unfortunately, most of the small old ones have weights on the flywheels.
Mine has the counter weights in the fly wheels - they had learned later on it was better to add the counter weights to the crank at the connecting rod journal - the cranks with the counter weight in the fly wheels tend to brake at the journal in time -
It was a common problem for yrs - there were up grade kits for many engines - there were upgrades also to change the main bearings from sleeve bushings to roller bearings -
In harsh dirty environments bushings work out better than roller bearings -
@@able880 What kind is it?