Me and a friend of work with large scale trains (1.5quot; scale, 7.5quot; gauge), and we are in the process of making a maintenance of way car. We want to know if we would want to use an alternator running through a DC to AC inverter for power or if we can just run an AC motor and have that as the generator. We will be using a 3.5 hp Briggs Stratton engine for running the generator.
seems like you could use a welder that also puts out AC
AC motor sounds like the most logical choice to me..
AC induction motors do not work as generators. Don
