----- Original Message -----

From: Bill Dube

Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2004 10:24 AM

To: Rotary motors in aircraft

Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: Alternator pulley size

 

At 09:29 PM 5/11/2004 -0400, you wrote:
>I found alternator from Prelude with much larger pulley than the stock
>Mazda.


         Don't Honda engines spin "backwards"? Will this be a problem when
using a Honda alternator on a rotary?

Not that a pulley cares which way it turns, but Alternators are AC devices internally and don't care which way they turn either.  A rectifier converts AC to DC for the external world. 

Tracy