Filmed in the summer of 2005. ~20 gallon boiler from an old steam ship (refurbished and re-certified by my dad), max pressure 250psi with a pressure release valve set at 150psi. The steam engine was hand-built by someone else, my dad just re-painted it and machined new mechanical parts. That’s a 3kW generator outputting 120VAC ~60Hz in-phase across all outlets. We had four machines plugged in and charging. The generator had no problem with the output as long as we could keep the steam pressure up. The low point was approximately 50psi; below that the steam engine couldn’t keep up enough RPMs to keep the power at 120V.
Video Rating: 5 / 5