Return-Path: Received: from [129.116.87.170] (HELO MAIL01.austin.utexas.edu) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.3c2) with ESMTP id 754087 for flyrotary@lancaironline.net; Tue, 22 Feb 2005 08:59:04 -0500 Received-SPF: none receiver=logan.com; client-ip=129.116.87.170; envelope-from=mark.steitle@austin.utexas.edu X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5.7226.0 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: RE: [FlyRotary] Re: 2nd battery Re: Amps required to run engine & amp- hours available Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 07:58:17 -0600 Message-ID: <87DBA06C9A5CB84B80439BA09D86E69EC07F96@MAIL01.austin.utexas.edu> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: [FlyRotary] Re: 2nd battery Re: Amps required to run engine & amp- hours available Thread-Index: AcUYb+iB3nSqilkdTiSelM2Is3vViwAdd6Rw From: "Mark R Steitle" To: "Rotary motors in aircraft" Todd, I looked into the water pump alternator. The problem I see is that it still needs a belt. It would be harder to change, and much harder to find a replacement if/when it quits in the middle of nowhere. =20 Mark S.=20 Now they are selling waterpumps that have a built-in alt using this same idea and I can't help but thinking how sweet it would be if I could do this. Todd