PTO generator

[cleat 7,058]

Found this generator at my uncles farm tucked into an old machinery shed.

My uncle has dementia and is in a home & has not been home for a long time.

It is a Winpower 50/30 PTCD

It has a max output of 50,000 watts intermittent and 30,000 watts continuous (with a big enough tractor)

There is a standard 110 volt plug on a 15A breaker, a 50A 220V plug on a 50A breaker and the big plug on the back fed by a 125A 220V breaker.

 

This is how the poor thing looked at the farm.

 

Here I am winching it onto my trailer.

 

Generator hauled home and unloaded.

 

Generator hooked up to a Wheel horse.

 

Generator in my shop to begin it's cleanup.

 

I unbolted generator from it's badly bent and broken cart then lifted it off using the front end loader.

 

Cart was straightened and tongue repaired.

It then got sanded and repainted.

Wheel bearings checked and greased.

Generator gearbox oil changed and PTO shaft cleaned and greased.

 

Generator lifted back onto cart and bolted down.

 

Hitched generator to tractor and hooked up PTO shaft.

 

Ran generator up to speed and it came into the green on the volt gauge.

Yay, it works.

 

Changed out the 3 conductor 50A plug with a 4 conductor 50A plug because the three conductor plug was corroded and I just feel safer with a double neutral.

 

Hooked generator to the shop and ran it up to speed.

I used the 50A plug because my 25HP tractor couldn't do much more anyways

It easily ran my 5HP air compressor that my small 6,300 watt generator has trouble with.

 

While the generator was running the air compressor I hooked up my scope to check the waveform.

It has some noise on it but for a portable generator it is the cleanest I have witnessed.

When the compressor shut off, the waveform looked exactly the same.

 

Here is how it looks on my AC mains from the utilities.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[ebinmaine 70,944]

Excellent save Cleat

[Achto 28,856]

3 hours ago, cleat said:

30,000 watts

 Nice genny !!

Need 45hp to maintain 30kw. Should be able to maintain about 16kw with your 25hp tractor, maybe able to pull a bit more do to the gen capability.

Edited Monday at 12:18 AM by Achto

[WHX?? 50,815]

3 hours ago, cleat said:

uncles farm

Uncle milk cows by any chance? Those were a necessity if the cows had to get milked. 

[cleat 7,058]

31 minutes ago, Achto said:

 Nice genny !!

Need 45hp to maintain 30kw. Should be able to maintain about 16kw with your 25hp tractor, maybe able to pull a bit more do to the gen capability.

That is about what I thought as well.

That is why I am just using the 50A plug. 

That will more than do my needs.

 

[cleat 7,058]

2 minutes ago, WHX?? said:

Uncle milk cows by any chance? Those were a necessity if the cows had to get milked. 

Yes, he ran a dairy farm and milked around 50 cows.

[953 nut 58,164]

11 hours ago, WHX?? said:

Those were a necessity if the cows had to get milked. 

Got to feed them critters too. Most modern farms use mechanized feeding machinery that requires electricity.

Nice save on  that generator and trailer @cleat.