Why can’t you just bring it to the desired rpm if you start it as motor and then slowly add torque to the shaft of the motor, so that the motor will turn into a generator and it will start to generate power.
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Because the power comes out of the generator in a wave, up and down. It hits the peaks of the waves in certain spots as the generator turns. Three different spots, to be exact, in three phase power in North America
The waves from the output of the generator need to match the waves already on the grid, otherwise they will physically interact and cause damage. The power coming in off-cycle from the grid will try to turn the generator into an electric motor, but it’s already spinning very fast. This conflict will physically destroy the generator
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