[PUP] PPM Electrical generation & storage

[Bob Frenier]

Gentlemen, can we carry on with the PPM discussion, please? I care not  
whether a PPM will emerge; it has been educational and entertaining  reading
the 

thoughts and opinions of listees. Good to have this list active again

Regards,
 
John
"Seahorse"

 

I still love the PPM discussion, too. Here's a potentially arousing thread:
How are we going to generate and store electrical power on the PPM?

 

In the past, Arild has advocated (persuasively, to me) using a DC genset and
maybe making that big enough to serve as a good wing engine. That advice
seems even more persuasive when we consider that new Thin Plate Pure Lead
("TPPL") battery technology claims to be able to charge the battery with
considerably more speed than an ordinary AGM unit. A good starter question,
then, might be: how fast can a big TPPL bank be charged from how deep a
discharge? And does the answer to that mean we could have some truly BIG
alternators on that wing engine to do the job? 

 

Regards,

Bob Frenier

Bob Frenier

Chelsea, VT