Ebay Generator

Plushy · #1 15-09-07, 16:29

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

Has anyone seen one before ?
Front

Back

Side

underneath

cheers Plushy

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

dougiebarder · #2 15-09-07, 16:41

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

(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

Richard Farrant · #3 15-09-07, 19:28

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.

dougiebarder · #4 15-09-07, 19:42

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.

Richard Farrant · #5 16-09-07, 00:14

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