Monarch diesel with low-pressure injection?

What I found is that this IS a Lister engine. It was sold through an American company called Monarch who put a few finishing touches on it to meet the Buy American Act. (While I was on active duty, I found "crescent" wrenches made in Taiwan in boxes made in the USA met that act.)

It does have individual injection pumps under the rocker covers, they are linked to a control from the governor.

There are manuals available on epay, either in paper or on CD. Many times the alternators were wound for 400 Hz, which limits their use around the house.

Your model is a CSR3 from Lister-Petter. I read that there is some information and are some parts available through Lister, but I gave up before the page completed loading. All I saw on their home page was much newer models.

Gerald J.

400 Hz three phase does interfere with much house use. It will run the TV, the computer, the battery charger, and incandescent lamps, maybe fluorescents with solid state ballasts, but not older ballasts or motors except for series motors. It would run resistance heaters, but not their fan motors.

It would be almost practical to run a 3 phase battery charger with it and run inverters from the battery for 60 Hz loads.

Rewinding the core probably isn't practical. I suspect the high frequency comes from a few poles of aternator but with notched pole faces to get 400 Hz without having to have a 16 pole alternator running at some obnoxiously high speed.

Years ago, I would have been interested in the 400 Hz capability since I had some military surplus radios that needed 400 Hz power, but they have wandered off as did a 400 Hz motor driven alternator that I had. Seems when I loaned it out, that party moved away and forgot it was a loan and took it with him.

These days I have good 60 Hz alternators and for some applications don't need several KW of power and for some things get along fine with 10 amps at 12 volts.

Gerald J.

Gerald J.