Deve, No one here seems to be able to satisfy your quest for knowledge on this subject and the 'flaming' has started. The forum moderators take a dim view of this and we, the population of this forum, don't want anyone tossed as this is our hobby, not our job. All information, good and bad is necessary if we are going to separate the good from the bad.
My advice to you since your engineering friends nor we can answer your questions is to go to the source. Contact the manufacturer of these hi output alternators like "Powermaster" and ask them. If they don't know then I guess no one will.
I noticed your place of employment. I have been there several times for conferences as my place of employment was the Oak Ridge National Lab. I was involved in nuclear reactor research (Neutron science). I remember eating lunch a few years back sharing a table with two senior nuclear physicists. They were discussing Quarks (look it up if you don't know what they are). One physicist ask the other how he would measure a Quark. He response was, "why I would use a Quark meter". I almost choked on my food.
I also turned wrenches on aircraft for a number of years in the National Guard.
Last edited by beltfed; 10/03/2015 1:28 PM.
