rjvh

In the duch language it's called geiser

same pronounsiation as in south africa I asume

they are instantenious water heaters and are either on electrical power or gas

Robert-Jan

arrie

Yip, you're right.

I believe the dutch language forms the basis for my native language - afrikaans, but I do not even remember what a geyser (engligh) is called in afrikaans, we've sort of adopted the english term, same as garage (in afrikaans - motorhuis), but very few afrikaans people still use that.
the english also borrowed some words from afrikaans, such as lekker, normaly described when something tastes good, then you would say something like damn this steak is lekker. It has become a bit of a slang term here, e.g. lekker dude, see you tomorrow. Nothing to do with food, see.
etc. etc. etc.

JimB

Now that I have a bit more time, here is a link to Geysir in Iceland
http://www.worldtravelguide.net/attr...er-Geysir.html

A very popular stop on the tourist route from Reykjavik.

JimB

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arrie

thanks jimb

damn, that site takes forever to load though.

servicetronics

ditto very slow.

rjvh

Lekker is a fully dutch word and the discription you give is exacly the same as in dutch

motorhuis is technicaly a combination of 2 dutch words (motor and huis) and we don't use it in that way we also say garage but with the emphasis different in pronouncing the word

I met a few south african people and if they speak Afrikaans i do understand about 80% of it,

it's a form of dutch that we spoke about 100 a 150 years ago

i know it is less what they unsderstand from the dutch that is spoken now

Robert-Jan

Space Varmint

Well, I did not read all the posts, so it may have already been said, but why don't you just read your power meter? Just write down the time of day it is and then record the kilowatt hours displayed. Then go back the next day at the same time and write down the new current kilowatts. Then subtract the previous day's reading. From there you can convert to whatever units you like.

radpoyesh

I need some info about servo motor.can you help me

rjvh

I can help you with this advice: put your question in the apropriat forum in a new tread, BUT before doing that surf to the wikipedia site and search servo motor you might have your answer there already and if it is a spesific type google it

Robert-Jan

neon

your best bet and actualy your only choice is to look at your bills and find the total power usage for the last months. choose the highest months and multiply by a safefty factor. after all if you have 5kw usage it wouln'd be a good idea to run a 5kw generator close to the red line. acurate power reading can be gotten from monitoring the meter wheels inside your meter box for 1 minute. but the present power co. can assist you in telling you power usage and cost /kwh.

Willbe

Last May we used 500 w on average, 24 hrs/day.

mneary

Nice try, but not even close. You cannot calculate the size of the generator from the information on the bill.

The bill gives the total kWh, you can calculate the average, and you still don't know anything about the peak demand. If your average 24/7 is 500W, your peak could very well be 5kW (for example a 2kW electric stove plus 3kW water heater that run 5% of the time.)

The only way to know is to survey the loads that will be on the generator. If you can't find the ratings of some items, you can turn them on and watch the meter. Or buy a "kill-a-watt" (special meter) for about $20.

Space Varmint

Read the meter. Kilowatt hours. You know yourself when you are at peak usage and you can look to see what your using.

Willbe

Peak demand would be less than your service size: 60 A @ 240 v = 14.4 kW, 100 A [24 kW], 200 A [48 kW], as determined by the wire size coming in to your breaker panel.

For my house, the peak-to-average ratio might be 50.

If the peak-to-average power rating of generators is only 2:1, and if peak demand is only 1 hr/day, you should look into energy storage [batteries, a flywheel, etc.].

Ask the generator people. Make sure their salesmen don't claim that they can violate the laws of physics.