Ebay Generator
 

Hi to One and All ,
I bought this little generator off Ebay during the week and i apoligise if anyone else on here was bidding on it .

I thought i better ask you guys for more info on the Geney the Plate on the Side says it was built in 1945 and it goes like a trooper a quick turnover and away it goes :D Has anyone seen one before ?
Front
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...kol/6284_1.jpg
Back
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...kol/6a9e_1.jpg
Side
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...kol/6429_1.jpg
Side
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...kol/6713_1.jpg
underneath
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...kol/65a3_1.jpg

cheers Plushy

p.s i will post up a little video of it running tomorrow .

It look's like an 80 watt charging set. I've been looking out for one in the UK for a while. They come up on EBAY occasionally(the last one was about £35-but was collect only). And a chap had one at Beltring that he wanted £200+ for :doh: (he claimed to have had an offer of that, but the bloke didn't have the cash on him). I presume they were origionally 12 Volts, but some might have been converted to 24. As a radio repair trailer I have would have been fitted with one, and it used 24V.

And can somebody now tell us What it's really please :D

80 watt Charging Set
 

That is an 80 watt Charging Set, of wartime vintage and British built to a design by Stuart Turner (makers of marine engines, etc.). Some were built by Enfield Cycles and Douglas, the motorcycle makers.

I bought an unissued one many years ago at Duxford, made in 1944, in its crate with canvas cover, extension exhaust and silencer, also a small metal box with spare parts, ie valves, piston rings, gaskets all in grease with an instruction booklet. They are only 12 volt and i would think it very unlikely that they were converted to 24 volt. This higher voltage was obtained by the BSA 300watt 30 volt charging set, a copy of the Canadian Chorehorse.

My set bore inspection stenciling as shown with REME Far East Land Forces inspection and a further inspection at Donnington Ord. Depot in UK in 1979. Will find a photo of it.

Rating is 80 watts DC, 18 volts, 4.5 amp, while some earlysets have an additional output of AC current with a frequency of 300 cycles per second at 3000 rpm.

I thought it seemed strange for it to be converted to 24 volt. The one I'm after (if I find out what it is) Is to go in a sankey radio repair trailer. It's to charge the two internal backup batteries, and the handbook said it's either an 80 or (I think)120 Watts.

Stuart Turner 80w charging set
 

Here is a photo of my 80 watt charging set, the end cover at engine end is not fitted here.