<VV> Re: VirtualVairs Digest, Vol 15, Issue 59

[Padgett]

>Having been bitten by an alternator on a test stand with NOTHING CONNECTED
>TO IT, tells me the residual magnetism in the rotor is not trivial.

In a dry climate, static electricity can surprise you (Florida usually has 
enough humidity to take care of that). Not saying you cannot be surprised 
if you grab the output terminal of a spinning 10 DN alternator with no 
wires connected just that I never have been and it would just be a surprise 
- no current behind it.

Now if it was a "one wire" alternator with an internal regulator, I just 
don;t know - I never tried with one of those.

>Padgett