"Gunner" wrote in message
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On Mon, 14 Jul 2003 02:30:36 GMT, "oktr6r"
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"Bill Janssen" wrote in message
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After reading some of the other comments I still think it would be a
fun
project.
All I want is one or two horsepower driving a car alternator. I would
prefer
a boiler that could take wood as the fuel but any fuel would be OK.

Probably won't ever build such a device but I would like to.

Alternator or generator? If you use an altenator, you'll need a battery
for
it to start charging. A generator doesn't require one. If you'll include
a
battery, the altenator would be better.

Les

batteries will be around a very long time, even after the sources of
gasoline go away. Every motor vehicle has one, so collecting them
would be easy, charging them is the problem.

A GM altenator with built-in regulator would be simple to wire up. You'd
only need to run 2 wires from it, and hook one from the plug on the
altenator to the BATT terminal on the back. Just need to check & see which
terminal in the plug would need to hook to the BATT terminal. If you need
this info, let me know. I've got one wired up like this & it puts out
14.5VDC at an idle...

Les