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  1. 05-16-2011, 08:30 PM #11
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    Quote Originally Posted by W5GA View Post
    A generator like that, while cool, is probably not the ticket to run an SS rig on. Voltage and frequency regulation probably aren't very precise, and an SS rig won't like that very much.
    Probably a good point, Doug. I'd certainly want to run some tests before I hooked up a rig to the thing. If nothing else, I could use it for charging a car battery.
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    Quote Originally Posted by KJ6BSO View Post
    Probably a good point, Doug. I'd certainly want to run some tests before I hooked up a rig to the thing. If nothing else, I could use it for charging a car battery.
    Carl, this is what they made the Swan 350 for. Opportunity knocks!!! Or is that opporknockety tunes?
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    Quote Originally Posted by W5GA View Post
    Carl, this is what they made the Swan 350 for. Opportunity knocks!!! Or is that opporknockety tunes?
    Yeah—stability hardly counts with a Swan Three-Drifty! Just don't try using it on the digital modes.
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    Quote Originally Posted by KJ6BSO View Post
    Yeah—stability hardly counts with a Swan Three-Drifty! Just don't try using it on the digital modes.
    Unless you're using the original digital mode. Dooowdidoooowdit doooowdooowdidooooow.
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    Quote Originally Posted by KJ6BSO View Post
    Yeah—stability hardly counts with a Swan Three-Drifty! Just don't try using it on the digital modes.
    Don't laugh. Some do.
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    Quote Originally Posted by KJ6BSO View Post
    What I've been working on over the past few days:



    It's a Homelite 35A115 generator, circa 1957. I've had it for years but it's been sitting unused and I just got it started up this afternoon. It's a 2-stroke engine and it's still got some fuel system issues but is in essentially good health. It is a noisy bastard, through; I think the muffler is rusted out from sitting all those years. I remember it as being surprisingly quiet the last time I ran it, much like a small 2-stroke street bike.
    Nice, I like it.
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