You can believe as you wish...right is right, wrong is wrong, and some are just rained out.
Any your engine/motor is nothing...
"JERRYROBINSON (Electrical)
28 Feb 07 14:07
I know that NASA and Boeing aircraft both use 60,000 hp motors on their wind tunnels.
We actually have in our possession the old motors off the Seattle wind tunnel. It was 36,000 hp wound rotor induction motor, 10 pole. It was coupled to a 20,000 hp synchronous motor thru an eddy-current coupling, and had a 450 hp wound rotor pony motor on the common shaft.
The 450 pony started the sync motor, which accelerated the 3600 thru the clutch. when the unit was up to slip speed, it was closed onto the power system to minimize impact on the utility.
I believe I read an article that both Siemens and ABB both have breached the 80,000 hp rating, but cannot find the article.
jraef (Electrical)
28 Feb 07 15:00
We have had this discussion here in the past, but I couldn't find it. At one time ABB was working on a 125,000HP motor and drive for Boeing's supersonic wind tunnel, but that got the axe when Boeing abandoned the SST for the 2nd time recently. "