From: GOTAM35 (gotam35@sc.rr.com)
Date: Tue Aug 20 2002 - 20:48:16 PDT
I know nothing about military generators, but for the record gas and diesel
welding machines made over 20 years ago usually had a 115 volt DC outlet on
them. Allot of side grinders are still made to run on AC or DC. I believe
in the good old days (long before I was a welder) a welder (the person) only
needed a cutting torch and a grinder. The machines were DC so the outlet
was DC for the power tools. They started putting converters on them quite a
while back so you would have an AC outlet for the tools on the DC welding
machine for stuff like band saws and fans. Sometimes a new kid would plug a
band saw into an old DC outlet and burn it up. All of those machines have
since been retired.
Joe Trapp
----- Original Message -----
From: "Joe Scheaffer" <jsinvent@charter.net>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Tuesday, August 20, 2002 10:58 PM
Subject: [MV] 115 Volt DC??!!
>
> Hello,
> Can anyone tell me what a 115 Volt DC military generator would be for?
> It has a 4 cylinder gas engine. (I think it is OHV, I don't remember.)
> It is a 6 volt system on the engine and the unit was made in the early
> 50's by Hobart. Could a DC generator be converted to AC? Any help is
> greatly appreciated.
> Thanks,
> Joe
>
>
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