From: Jeff Gatton (jdgatton@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue Oct 26 2004 - 05:23:20 PDT
Here are some SVO/WVO links I've collected.
http://www.wired.com/news/autotech/0,2554,63635,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_1
http://ctbiodzl.freeshell.org/votdi.html
http://www.lubespecialist.com/product.php?product_type=vw§ion=vw
http://biodiesel.infopop.cc/eve/
http://www.jegs.com/cgi-bin/ncommerce3/ProductDisplay?prrfnbr=1478&prmenbr=361
http://biodiesel.infopop.cc/eve/ubb.x?a=tpc&s=447609751&f=159605551&m=269108242
http://www.agriculture.com/sfonline/sf/2001/december/0114fuel.html
Jeff Gatton
--- m35products <m35prod@optonline.net> wrote:
> Caleb:
>
> What charges the two 6-volt batteries that are now
> on the unit? Are they
> charged from the main 12-volt truck alternator, when
> it is hooked to the
> tractor? If it is a semi-trailer, and it might be
> set out away from its
> tractor for a spell, and then restarted, what would
> be keeping its batteries
> ready to do this? I wonder if there is already an
> alternator on the engine.
> Can you get the engine started? Try putting a
> digital Voltmeter across the
> two batteries while it is running. If the dVm reads
> anything higher than 12
> Vdc while it is running, then something is charging
> the batteries. A voltage
> in the range of 13.8 V to 14.3 V would indicate an
> alternator at work.
>
> apb
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Caleb Pal - MilVeh" <m1009@defcon-3.net>
> To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List"
> <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2004 2:06 AM
> Subject: [MV] Interesting Generator
> project....Vegetable oil
>
>
> > Hello all,
> >
> > This isn't very MV related, but it isn't
> election/kerry/bush related, so I
> > hope some people can shed some ideas on my
> project. Ok, so since my
> project
> > to convert a M35A2 to run on vegetable oil was
> turned down by the school
> and
> > the financial comittee, even though I would pay
> the $500 for the M35A2,
> they
> > disaproved it. So I found a small diesel engine on
> the bottom of a "Refer"
> > tractor trailer that powers the cooler. Its in a
> cage on the bottom with a
> > 150 gallon round diesel tank for fuel. The guy is
> letting me have the
> unit,
> > so I am going to drop it onto a trailer, and
> convert this sucker to run on
> > straght vegetable oil. It has about 2200 hours on
> it, which seems kind of
> > high? I don't think it was run hard, just a steady
> rpm for a long amount
> of
> > time. Any suggestions there? I was thinking of
> pulling the ac compressor
> off
> > of it, and hooking a 12v alternator up to it. I
> think its a 4 cyl diesel
> > engine, so a little overkill for just running an
> alternator, but it sould
> do
> > the trick. I think right now its bolted right up
> to the compressor, so I
> > will need to figure out a way to get a pully on
> the shaft or whatever is
> on
> > the end of the engine. I need to get a
> manufacturer name and some stuff
> off
> > the engine and the whole unit tomarrow, but if
> anyone has any ideas or
> > suggestions, they are more than welcome. Its a
> pretty good sized engine,
> the
> > starter looks to be almost the size of a small
> block chevy, started by 2
> 6v
> > battereies wired in sieres. the idea is that I
> have a backup system with a
> > 600 watt inverter for all of my servers, and with
> this I can have the
> > alternator charge the 2 deep cycle 6v batteries
> for a longer power outage,
> > and could run it to save on the power bill if the
> vegetable oil is free.
> MV
> > content, I was thinking about using a CUCV
> alternator I have here, off of
> a
> > M1008 when it was converted to 12v. I think it was
> over-voltaging? What
> > would fry in the alternator to cause this? The
> inverter at full load
> should
> > pull about 60 amps DC, so that alternator should
> be able to keep up. Maybe
> > even 2 or a bigger generator would be a good idea.
> Trying to keep the cost
> > low. Dropping this thing and getting it on a
> trailer should be fun, looks
> > like it wieghts a ton.... So again, any ideas,
> flames or otherwise are
> > welcome!
> >
> > Caleb
> >
> >
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