A laser cut adapter plate holds the motor and alternator together ... and [Glenn] says that the charger/generator only needs to run about 5 minutes before a dead battery has enough juice to ...

A British company has developed an exhaust-driven generator that could be used to supplement the usual belt-driven alternator ... backpressure may have on the engine's efficiency.

The big difference between an alternator and a generator is that an alternator ... accessory or serpentine belt which is driven by the engine’s crankshaft. These drive belts are found at the ...

The output of a generator can be represented on an induced current–time graph which is shown below. It shows four different positions of the coil of the generator, and the corresponding induced ...

This means that the alternator produces a current that is constantly changing. This is alternating current or ac. The output of an alternator can be represented on a potential difference-time ...

If batteries weren’t hard enough, [Robert] also decided he wasn’t going to use an off-the-shelf motor for this project. He converted a car alternator to operate as a brushless motor.