Noisy Generator!

[SIKSUKR]

With the temps we had in this outage there was no need to run the gen all night long.Get up a little early,start it up and the house is warm in an hour.

[chunt]

Shouldn't change the governor setting. The motor has to run at multiples of 60 to maintain 60HZ power frequency. Small portable generators typically will run at 3600 rpm to maintain the 60hz power frequency.

[RLW]

Originally Posted by chunt

Shouldn't change the governor setting. The motor has to run at multiples of 60 to maintain 60HZ power frequency. Small portable generators typically will run at 3600 rpm to maintain the 60hz power frequency.

The above is true, however they are producing new generators that reduce the RPM as the load reduces. Knowing this, how does it perform as stated above?? That is just me asking the question as I do not know..

[brk-lnt]

Originally Posted by RLW

The above is true, however they are producing new generators that reduce the RPM as the load reduces. Knowing this, how does it perform as stated above?? That is just me asking the question as I do not know..

Some of those are inverter generators. They basically make a lower-voltage that is run through a circuit to great 120V/60Hz power. So, the motor speed does not directly effect the power cycle frequency of the power generated.