Posted for "Cy Galley" <cgalley@qcbc.org>:

Why would you have any greater risk of "cooking the battery?"  This is a function of your regulator and it really doesn't make much difference when the regulator fails.  Even an old style generator will cook a battery if the regulator fails. The wire from the alternator to the regulator and battery is the only wire that needs re-sizing.

Cy Galley, TC - Chair, Emergency Aircraft Repair, Oshkosh
Editor, EAA Safety Programs
cgalley@qcbc.org or experimenter@eaa.org