On Sun, 25 Sep 2011 20:31:37 -0700 (PDT), "hr(bob) "
wrote:

On Sep 25, 10:27Â*pm, Steve Barker wrote:
On 9/25/2011 8:48 AM, Stormin Mormon wrote:

On some lawn tractors, the starter motor spins the other
way, and acts as a generator.

The gooder quality battery sounds like a good investment.

the few that did that decades ago turned the same direction starting and
generating.

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Steve Barker
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It's very easy to use the starting motor to generate enough
electricity to charge a small battery of the sort in the lawn tractor.
Unless the starting motor has a gear drive.
Actually, the TRUTH is, it is a lot easier to use agenerator as a
starter on a small single cyl engine. The "starterator" is much more a
modified generator than a modified starter.