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Generator question HZ
« on: November 06, 2012, 09:31:37 PM »
So I noticed that a clock in my bed room gains about a 20 minutes every 12 hours running on the generator. Obviously this is a frequency problem but the voltage is good (240) and very smooth.
The math is eluding me right now to figure out the problem.

Oh after 8 days we got juice back.
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Re: Generator question HZ
« Reply #1 on: November 06, 2012, 09:45:03 PM »
The generator output must not be 60 mHz.
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Re: Generator question HZ
« Reply #2 on: November 06, 2012, 09:49:15 PM »
You want to know at what frequency it's running?

12 hours is 720 minutes.  Your clock is running 740 minutes in 720 minutes, so your generator is probably producing 740/720  =  74/72 = 37/36 of the normal frequency of 60hz.

An extra 1/36 of 60 is 1.66 so i guess it's running at 61.66 hz?
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Re: Generator question HZ
« Reply #3 on: November 06, 2012, 10:18:43 PM »
Quote from: CNYCacher on November 06, 2012, 09:49:15 PM
You want to know at what frequency it's running?

12 hours is 720 minutes.  Your clock is running 740 minutes in 720 minutes, so your generator is probably producing 740/720  =  74/72 = 37/36 of the normal frequency of 60hz.

An extra 1/36 of 60 is 1.66 so i guess it's running at 61.66 hz?

Should I try and figure out how to adjust it or don't worry? How much will the voltage drop if slowed down? Or how many rps for that matter?
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Re: Generator question HZ
« Reply #4 on: November 06, 2012, 10:37:08 PM »
I wouldn't worry. It's highly doubtful you are running anything for which the frequency is critical. Syncronous motors will run slightly faster, clocks will run fast, nothing else will really care.

Depends what kind of generator if/how you can adjust it.
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Re: Generator question HZ
« Reply #5 on: November 07, 2012, 01:06:19 PM »
Quote from: MillCreek on November 06, 2012, 09:45:03 PM
The generator output must not be 60 mHz.
Wouldn't a 60 millihertz output mean the clock would tend to run a bit slow?   ;)
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Re: Generator question HZ
« Reply #6 on: November 07, 2012, 02:37:44 PM »
If you increase the hz enough, can you time travel  ???
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Re: Generator question HZ
« Reply #7 on: November 07, 2012, 03:03:30 PM »
Quote from: Tallpine on November 07, 2012, 02:37:44 PM
If you increase the hz enough, can you time travel  ???
Not without Stewie Griffith's time machine.     [tinfoil] [popcorn] =D
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Re: Generator question HZ
« Reply #8 on: November 07, 2012, 05:10:38 PM »
You guys made me laugh so hard it hertz.    >:D

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Re: Generator question HZ
« Reply #9 on: November 07, 2012, 06:45:07 PM »
Quote from: TommyGunn on November 07, 2012, 03:03:30 PM
Not without Stewie Griffith's time machine.     [tinfoil] [popcorn] =D

But we need a uranium rod for that.  Or perhaps we can jerry-rig a Mr. Fusion and get the time machine up to 83 MPH.
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Re: Generator question HZ
« Reply #10 on: November 08, 2012, 12:58:43 PM »
Quote from: MillCreek on November 07, 2012, 06:45:07 PM
But we need a uranium rod for that.  Or perhaps we can jerry-rig a Mr. Fusion and get the time machine up to 83 MPH.

Or 1.2 GHZ   :lol:
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Re: Generator question HZ
« Reply #11 on: November 09, 2012, 10:23:35 AM »
Eeesh! you guys must be suffering from oldtimer's disease.....

it's 88MPH, and 1.21 gigaWATTS

Although ok... I can see Tallpine playing on the gigawatts/gigahertz thing....

But Millcreek.....    :P
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Re: Generator question HZ
« Reply #12 on: November 09, 2012, 05:41:16 PM »
Quote from: AmbulanceDriver on November 09, 2012, 10:23:35 AM
Eeesh! you guys must be suffering from oldtimer's disease.....

it's 88MPH, and 1.21 gigaWATTS

Although ok... I can see Tallpine playing on the gigawatts/gigahertz thing....

But Millcreek.....    :P

And it was on this day that the first sign of dementia reared its ugly head.......... :O

Although I was talking this very morning about the same thing with the Region X medical director of CMS.  How we are both getting to the stage where we cannot remember the names of people that we have known for twenty years.
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