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Re: Alternator or Generator?
Posted to Technical Theory Forum on 9/24/2008

One minor tweak. The power for the rotor can come from the battery, but in some alternators, there is a diode trio. GM did this and so did motorola. the theory there is to take a portion of the output and use it to supply the rotor current.

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