Huge old motor generators at UCI

From: Mike Ford <mikeford_at_socal.rr.com>
Date: Fri Feb 15 06:16:40 2002

>> All this power talk I thought I would mention that the surplus yard at UC
>> Irvine has a couple huge old motor generator sets, that I am guessing will
>> go for scrap value. Each motor, or generator part is about the size of
>> adog, so memory tells me maybe 25 kw.
>
>Interesting unit of measure to apply to a motor.
>
>What else do you know about these MGs? 60 Hz? 400 Hz? DC?

I haven't even read the panels, but I can guess from others that they are
25kw of 60 hz 120 vac. (might be 240 3 phase, but that would be extra
guessing).

Hoping to avoid more confusion, these are chassis about 8 feet long with a
big motor on one end shaft coupled to a big generator on the other, and
primarily they serve to isolate computers from dirty power.
Received on Fri Feb 15 2002 - 06:16:40 GMT