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Onetap wrote:
On Friday, October 26, 2012 1:02:40 PM UTC+1, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:

Modern semiconductors could stand a higher peak voltage.

Clearly, not high enough.

So, there are no alternator-saving gizmos in modern alternators, other
than better semiconductors?

It's easy to make things fool proof. Making them c**t proof is the
difficult part.

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