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Saturday, March 19, 2016
generator mounting
hi everyone. I have to comment on the mounting system available, these are my own thoughts from experience. another hologram effect, you will be told one thing and get another. the scaffolding type , also look kinda like a c channel are a fail attempt in my opinion. they allow any viberations to echo through the tail and or the tower pipe . iv tried with a needle bearing under and the bearing failed in one month from weather. I found a bearing and made a shield and this is working good for the last year or so. the fit to the pipe is poor and if you loosen the fit until it pivots freely it will rattle, the angle of the gen is off on every one iv got and seen. there crud at best and noisy , if your gen has cogging this will be 10 fold and they don't give them away at 50$ each. im working on a simple piece with 2 tapered bearings that can be adjusted as or if needed, it will have a slip ring witch iv had 0 problems with since day one, one of them has 2 years with no maintenance at all. there is some vary good looking ideas on line for almost any configuration out there, some even have a furling system made into the mount and is vary easy to make. hats off to all the home made ideas out there, even when some don't work out at least the idea of betterment is at work. if you don't want to fail, its simple, don't make an attempt. I think all mounts should have two bearings at minimum , mount the gen at 3 to 5 deg upward and be removable without any more than one nut or bolt to remove the entire assembly , this being for the smaller systems, the larger systems all have a good bearing system already, they wouldn't work without them. the use of readily available bearings like trailer bearings are cheap, come with the seal and will run almost forever with a light oil like atf fluid for winter use. the unit would need to be designed with the bearing kit in mind, but once done this will allow the user to buy one kit with all needed parts almost anywhere for a good price and simplify life, you will only change them { I figure } every 6 - 10 years or when the seals dry and start to leak. here,s a thought, one I seen was a trailer hub assembly with the axel removed and replaced with a pipe made to fit and a bracket made to hold the gen. so if you want to save a pain in the you know what, mount it on bearings. thanks for reading.
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