"Jim Thompson" wrote in
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On Tue, 29 Nov 2011 16:38:40 -0600, John Fields
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On Tue, 29 Nov 2011 15:43:20 -0000, "Ian Field"
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On Sun, 27 Nov 2011 19:50:15 -0000, "Ian Field"
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"Jim Thompson"
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On Sun, 27 Nov 2011 10:50:39 -0800, Fred Abse
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On Sun, 27 Nov 2011 10:28:17 -0800, John Larkin wrote:

Alternators like this are often designed with a lot of internal
series
inductance. As speed increases, open-circuit terminal voltage
increases, but the series inductance impedance increases too,
tending
to make them constant-current sources, ideal for driving light
bulbs
at sorta constant brightness at various speeds.

What I was going to say.

I think there is an ancient patent somewhere about just that.

Well! Alternators _are_ current sources, but not for the reason
Larkin claims... no surprise ;-)

...Jim Thompson


That's all we need - the schoolyard bully just turned up!


And, as usual, he offers no actual information.

John

Jim makes you think.

He might make you think (I shudder to think what about!!!),

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You should shudder, since you seem to have so little technical acumen
and he isn't afraid to point you out as the village idiot.
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but when he's
not posting his inane political rants, the thing I see him doing most is
hurling insults at people he doesn't agree with - he was straight on the
attack (totally unprovoked) at JL

Totally unprovoked? Hardly. Larkin was plain-assed WRONG (as usual
by the way). But that doesn't seem to matter to you plain-half-assed
village idiots.

and didn't take long to follow up by
calling me a village idiot.

Am I not correct? Care to present some contradictory evidence?


You're a troll - that's all the evidence needed.