Date:         Mon, 24 Sep 2012 07:53:08 -0700
Reply-To:     Rocket J Squirrel <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Rocket J Squirrel <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Alternator continuous-duty rating?
Comments: To: Dennis Haynes <d23haynes57@hotmail.com>
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On 09/23/2012 07:31 PM, Dennis Haynes wrote:
> The Vanagon compartment really does not get all that warm. The open bottom
> and some air coming down the rear pillars keeps the air exchanged. Rarley
> does the stock alternator fail from heat so you are looking to solve a
> problem that doesn't need solving.
>
> Dennis
>

Rarely does someone connect his alternator to a pair of GC2 golf cart
batteries and expect that thing to charge them up quickly!

Persuant to my periodic engine shutdown during hot hot weather on long
steep grade climbs problem and my current interest in getting one of
these little 90A alternators to push mucho amps into a pair of GC2 golf
cart batteries, I'm gonna hang a remote-send temp sensor in the engine
compartment and see how warm it is in there.

You could be right, the alternator might be getting all the cooling it's
gonna get anyway, through I wonder how effective the alternator's
built-in fan is compared with forcing air through the device.

Then there are fluid-cooled alternators . . . !

--
Jack "Rocket j Squirrel" Elliott
1984 Westfalia, auto trans,
Bend, Ore.