Return-Path: Received: from relay02.roc.ny.frontiernet.net ([66.133.182.165] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.3c2) with ESMTP id 756388 for flyrotary@lancaironline.net; Wed, 23 Feb 2005 14:54:39 -0500 Received-SPF: pass receiver=logan.com; client-ip=66.133.182.165; envelope-from=canarder@frontiernet.net Received: from filter08.roc.ny.frontiernet.net (filter08.roc.ny.frontiernet.net [66.133.183.75]) by relay02.roc.ny.frontiernet.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD6593704C6 for ; Wed, 23 Feb 2005 19:53:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from relay02.roc.ny.frontiernet.net ([66.133.182.165]) by filter08.roc.ny.frontiernet.net (filter08.roc.ny.frontiernet.net [66.133.183.75]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 13759-07-70 for ; Wed, 23 Feb 2005 19:53:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (67-137-89-39.dsl2.cok.tn.frontiernet.net [67.137.89.39]) by relay02.roc.ny.frontiernet.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18B5437011A for ; Wed, 23 Feb 2005 19:53:50 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <421CDF46.8040500@frontiernet.net> Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 13:53:42 -0600 From: Jim Sower User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040514 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rotary motors in aircraft Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] The answer to your backup alternator needs :-) References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 0508-2, 02/23/2005), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20040701 (2.0) at filter08.roc.ny.frontiernet.net Yeah. All the planes I flew in the service had RATs. I thought about them but it seemed they would be heavy, expensive and not produce a lot of current at the speeds we fly. Perhaps worth looking into for when main alt fails ... Jim S. Russell Duffy wrote: > Here you go. Don't say I never gave you anything :-) > > http://www.basicaircraft.com/index.asp > > Seriously, if you had a place to put one of these, it could work, but > it's pretty pricey. I bet you could make one of these yourself. > > Cheers, > Rusty (off to work now)