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As we started demonstrating Dynamo’s capabilities at DoD trade shows, we found that we were fielding interest not only from service members, but also from other attendees from a variety of commercial industries. They liked the idea of a compact, efficient, quiet generator that could be used in their applications.
The core technology in Dynamo is a 30 kW 3-phase inverter. Inverter generators have been the fastest-growing segment of the portable generator market for the past few years, displacing legacy synchronous generator technology due to their high efficiency and low noise. See here for a deeper dive into the differences between inverter and synchronous generators.
We learned that while inverter generators have been rising in popularity in the below-2 kW portable generator market, no one had developed an inverter generator at the 30+ kW level due to the need for a 30 kW 3-phase inverter. See here for a deeper dive into why larger generators tend to be 3-phase rather than single phase.
However, Wright had developed a 3-phase 30 kW inverter for Dynamo! We realized we had something unique.
So we started speaking with potential customers, and within a few months we had 300+ pre-orders for a commercial variant of Dynamo. The commercial variant is only a generator, without the aircraft start cart feature. One customer wanted to use it for the specialized needs of the film industry. Another wanted to use it as part of a battery-solar backup power module. A third wanted to use it in a space-constrained maritime application.
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