No, it's a permanent magnet alternator. It requires a regulator which I have. My 440 DuroMax already has an electric starter and the pull starter.
Compression release cam sticking?
- Thread starter Big Bob
- Start date
madprofessor
"Loose Cannon Creations"
Not familiar with a starterator, but if it's supposed to be part starter, where's the ring gear?
I have no idea what a starterator is either. But I’d assume it’s something that gets switched from alternator/generator service to motor service. It wouldn’t need a ring gear as it’d start the engine via the belt. 2” alternator pulley feeding a 4” engine pulley. It’d be a cool thing but the switching mechanism is complicated. With electronics as they are today I’d say it’s doable.
in 1972 I helped install a massive 15’-18’ long Cat 312 V12 into a 1930’s narrow gauge locomotive. I helped rebuild it. The engine ran a huge generator that fed the electric motor. Where they parked it had a huge plug in cable and the generator was “switched” to start the diesel. It was pretty cool. As far as I know it’s still running.
madprofessor
"Loose Cannon Creations"
Worked around some of that at Electro-Motive repair shop out New Kings Rd. on the Northside. Really interesting stuff when you understand electric trackmotors and base generators. Never saw any narrow gauge though.
The starter-generator is a single component unit that starts a motor and then reverts to a generator.
The small engine ones I've seen are belt drive and about the shape of a small car alternator.
Been used on Club Cars, Cub Cadet, Toro, etc
Several older riding mowers with deluxe electrical systems used them.
Newer ones tend to be more compact and have a electrical capacity quite a bit larger than a typical small engine flywheel generator
Kohler, Briggs, etc
They do require a specific control.
This was a small locomotive out in the desert. There is a gypsum mine and it hauls the gypsum from the mine/pit to the sheetrock factory. Maybe 10 miles of track. I looked up the locomotives but couldn't figure out if the unit I worked on still operates. They had 2 locomotives in 1972. 3' narrow gauge rails. The V 12 engine was huge. Seperate jugs for each piston. I helped a old guy rebuild it while working at a Cat/John Deere shop in 1972. IIRC it was a 312?
Just saw this. It's a permanent magnet alternator. The engine comes from the factory with a starter. And yes, you can run a billet flywheel with the starter.
After running the little 20 amp alternator for a while now I am really pleased with the performance. I fired it up the other night and just let it idle for 1/2 hour or so with the dual LED headlights and single LED tail lamp on. I don't have a amp gauge on it, but I do have a volt gauge. It never dropped below 13.8 volts. I'd do it again in a heartbeat. Works great.