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Converting a lawn mower into a generator

Converting a lawn mower into a generator

Now you are setting back in your travel trailer on your own paid for piece of land. What will you do for power? A Solar set-up would be just the trick only if you had the money and the sun would shine bright everyday of the year. You looked into buying a commercial generator, only to find a good one costs more than your trailer. But you need power, need it now and it must be on the cheap, really cheap. What to do?

Get to work converting that old lawn mower into a generator for your new dirt cheap trailer homestead, that’s what. In it’s simplest form this is a high current DC charging system. With the addition of a DC to AC power converter, it also becomes an AC generator system with battery back up.

In essence, this charging system can be used to either directly power a DC to AC inverter, or it can recharge a battery bank which can be used later to power a DC to AC inverter for your household AC power needs like the 21″ TV as shown. Imagine being able to charge your batteries during the day, and then to be able to silently extract power at night for entertainment, lighting or cooking needs. This system can also be used in conjunction with other alternative energy system components like solar panels or wind generators as back up power for when the sun isn’t shining or the wind isn’t blowing!

The addition of a DC to AC power converter allows 120 Volt AC devices to be powered either from the lawn mower DC generator or by the batteries the system can charge.
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2 Responses to “Converting a lawn mower into a generator”

  1. Anonymous



    if you find a self propelled lawn mower(on the boulivard on spring cleanup) it runs with a pully allready.

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  2. Anonymous



    how many k/w did you get?

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