Requirement for Power

The growing unquenchable thirst for more power in the developed countries and perhaps more in the developing ones has led to constant innovation, a thirst that has never been quenched since the early industrial revolution to the present 21st century. Various contraptions have been designed to satiate this thirst. An engine generator is one of them.

An electric generator and an internet combustion engine assembled together so as to form a single piece of equipment is called as an Engine- Generator or even more colloquially, it is also called as generator set. They have evolved as a complimentary choice or an alternative for the electric generator and utilize the engine for the mechanical rotary force that needs to be developed for producing electricity.

In general, these generator sets also included a fuel reservoir for the engine, an engine speed regulator and also a voltage regulator. Some units also come equipped with a batter and a self-starter notwithstanding a transfer switch which can be used to load or on load the utility source on or off the generator set combination of an electric generator with an internal combustion engine, mounted