Picked up a decent-looking little genny yesterday, it's a Petters AV1 Series II
with a thumping great separately-excited alternator on it, driven by three V
belts.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=180252394195

At this rate we'll need a new factory to house it all! :-))

Peter
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Prepair Ltd, Rushden, UK
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On Wed, 18 Jun 2008 09:10:00 +0100, Peter A Forbes 
wrote:

>Picked up a decent-looking little genny yesterday, it's a Petters AV1 Series II
>with a thumping great separately-excited alternator on it, driven by three V
>belts.

Collected it on Saturday after delivering some repaired kit to one of our rail
customers at Stourbridge. The generator was about 1 mile away from where we
delivered :-))

Got it out of the van today, and broke it into handleable pieces, although the
alternator possibly weighs more than the engine....

The engine is fine, needs the fuel filter bracket welding up, but that's about
all, and the radiator core needs blowing through to clear out the dirt etc that
has accumulated.

The alternator is a bit unusual, in that it is a 6-pole 1000rpm unit, not a
4-pole 1500rpm unit, so the engine pulley is smaller than the alternator pulley
to reduce the speed (engine is 1500rpm)

It's the first small 6-pole machine I have come across, and I wonder who made
it, there is absolutely nothing on it anywhere to indicate make or
specification.

The baseplate is fabricated steel, and will go for shot blasting etc., the rest
of it is fairly serviceable as it is.

Peter
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