Re: (ET) Well, it took long enough

["Denis Carrier" <carrier denis gmail com>]

By the way, I bought the one before on eBay. I found it a bit small,
not very good as far as the ergonomics are concerned (hands too close
together so dangerous for kickbacks) and was surprised the find that
the oil for the chain is taken from the gears enclosure.  What
kind of oil are you going to use (chain oil or sae 80 gear oil?) I
agree with you, we need a 36 Vdc chainsaw to work from an Elec-Trak. I
tried before a Remington (110Vac) with a 3400 watt inverter. Not
enough! For inductive loads (like an electric motor) I was told that we
have to multiply by 6 the nominal wattage. As an exemple, a 12 Amp, 110
Vac chainsaw might be seen as a 1320 Watt machine (Volts x amps =
watts) but this is not the case. I still would like to use a new 110Vac
electric chainsaw with my E20 but I have to find a way to avoid its
peek power requirement at start. 
I see 3 possibilities :
1- Add condensers
2- Use a small flywheel progressivly accelereting the rotor (via a CVT?)
3- Find an electric motor having a rotor with much less inertia and add a centrifugal clutch like those on IC engine chainsaws. 
Any suggestions?.

Keep us informed on how you like your Elec-Trak chainsaw.

Denis

2007/9/18, Christopher Zach <cz alembic crystel com>:

But I finally have won a chainsaw. Will be interesting to see if/how
well it works. I have a lot of wood way out back, the rotary inverter is
not beefy enough for a real chainsaw, and I hate dragging around a 100lb
Matrix UPS when I want to cut wood (oddly enough even a 2200 watt
SmartUPS will not handle a chainsaw load but a 3,000 watt Matrix UPS
will. Probably the 100lb transformer)

Chris

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