yes that is my setup and i am the one narrating the video's as i took them. There were a number of refinements since the early video with the exhaust going out through the roof. There is a balance weight on the flywheel and that is what you see. There is a hand crank that slips over the end of the crankshaft to hand start the engine. It has a manual decompressor so that you can crank it up to speed remove the handle and disengage the compression release.
at at 3kw load it only uses a quart of fuel per hour running on diesel. Running natural gas and diesel just about 6 oz of diesel per hour. It can run for many days on the 2 gallon tank.
The pushrods need to be oiled about every 10 hours or so of running (just a little squirt)
This setup was built from pieces the engine and generator were sourced from a guy up in main. The frame I built using 1 beam and some large timbers.
It was a fun build and it should last a lifetime. Very slow speed huge crank shaft, a connecting rod as big as your lower arm and almost as long. The piston and rod weigh over 8 lbs.
Ps. About wanting one. These are getting hard to find in the states because the EPA has banned import of these engines but some are still to be had. Here is a link to one of the sites that i belong to that deals with a lot of these engines. Look under the listeroid/perteroid section for this type engine.
http://www.microcogen.info/index.php
Carl
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