3000W Chinese Gensets Info.
professor95 wrote: EDIT ADDED 45/5/2013- When this thread started in March of 2005, I never expected to see it survive this long or amass the quantity of information that has been shared here. In...
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Old & Slow wrote:
... My question of the day. The blanket I see laying over the genhead. Perhaps you might give us more info', seems like something of high heat interest in the protection of over heating the gen components along with the added fans. ...
Floyd
The "blanket" lying over the genhead/alternator is an old starter insulator wrap that I had lying around (I used to have a '73 DeTomaso Pantera with a 351 Cleveland - the headers would bake the starter and it would quit working!). I initially wrapped it over the alternator and down between the alternator and the muffler enclosure to "protect" the alternator from radiated muffler heat. THEN, I discovered the alternator was getting hot from within ... the temp rise was about the same with/without the wrap. The more I thought about it, since the heat was internal, the wrap might even be containing the heat and making it worse! I removed it from the alternator and will probably leave it off altogether since the duct blower is so effective. My brother was going to bring me a piece of the reflective insulation like you use to protect floorboards from a catalytic converter, but looks like I really don't need it!
Regards,
John
