Posted by Fawteen on September 08, 2007 at 07:10:18 from (64.223.255.2):
In Reply to: Electrall posted by Revredneck on September 08, 2007 at 06:57:54:
Someone with more knowledge will no doubt be along directly and fill in the holes, but basically Electrall was a short-lived attempt to replace mechanical PTO with electrically driven implements.
It used a big honkin' 3 phase generator (driven, I believe, off the belt pully shaft) and the idea was to have an electric motor on the implement (like say a baler) and just run a cable from the generator on the tractor to the motor on the implement.
It could also be used to power your house or milking parlor or whatever.
I think it scared people not familiar with electricity, and wasn't signficantly easier to use or more efficient than traditional PTO drive, so it sorta died on the vine.
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