[Healeys] Healeys Digest, Vol 4, Issue 226

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In a message dated 4/5/10 4:59:40 PM, healeys-request at autox.team.net
writes:


> Alternators on the other hand have to have power in the circuit to 
> excite them. That means there has to be voltage to excite them.
> No battery = no excitation
>

Fascinating, Now maybe you can explain why my race car with an alternator
in the ignition circuit, and a battery hooked to ground with a cut-off
switch, would happily continue to run when I switched off the battery. Tracy
has
just rewired it so that the cut-off switch now has four terminals, two for
the ground cable to the battery, and two that connect the alternator into the
ignition circuit.
Gary