Return-Path: Received: from [65.54.169.84] (HELO hotmail.com) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.2b3) with ESMTP id 3228803 for flyrotary@lancaironline.net; Wed, 12 May 2004 11:45:30 -0400 Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Wed, 12 May 2004 08:45:29 -0700 Received: from 4.171.174.66 by bay3-dav54.bay3.hotmail.com with DAV; Wed, 12 May 2004 15:45:29 +0000 X-Originating-IP: [4.171.174.66] X-Originating-Email: [lors01@msn.com] X-Sender: lors01@msn.com From: "Tracy Crook" To: "Rotary motors in aircraft" Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] Re: Alternator pulley size Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 11:45:28 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MSN Explorer 7.02.0011.2700 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_001_0003_01C43816.9F1CD780" Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 12 May 2004 15:45:29.0979 (UTC) FILETIME=[272CD4B0:01C43838] ------=_NextPart_001_0003_01C43816.9F1CD780 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable ----- Original Message ----- From: Bill Dube Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2004 10:24 AM To: Rotary motors in aircraft Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: Alternator pulley size At 09:29 PM 5/11/2004 -0400, you wrote: >I found alternator from Prelude with much larger pulley than the stock >Mazda. Don't Honda engines spin "backwards"? Will this be a problem whe= n =20 using a Honda alternator on a rotary? Not that a pulley cares which way it turns, but Alternators are AC device= s internally and don't care which way they turn either. A rectifier conv= erts AC to DC for the external world. =20 Tracy ------=_NextPart_001_0003_01C43816.9F1CD780 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
 
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----- Original Message -----
From: Bill Dube
Sent: Wednesday,= May 12, 2004 10:24 AM
To: R= otary motors in aircraft
Subject= : [FlyRotary] Re: Alternator pulley size
 

A= t 09:29 PM 5/11/2004 -0400, you wrote:
>I found alternator from Pre= lude with much larger pulley than the stock
>Mazda.


&nbs= p;        Don't Honda engines spin "ba= ckwards"? Will this be a problem when
using a Honda alternator on a r= otary?

Not that a pulley cares which way it turns, but Alt= ernators are AC devices internally and don't care which way they turn eit= her.  A rectifier converts AC to DC for the external world. 

Tracy

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