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Old 08-17-2011, 09:04 PM   #70 (permalink)
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Just learned about the "Smart Alternator" Kia and other companies use. As you probably know it's quite simple in principle, and would be easy to implement with a couple sensors and a simple PLC setup.
Kia is still using a standard alternator. The only thing they're doing differently, WRT other late model cars, is that they're automatically varying alternator output based on whether the car is accelerating or decelerating.

ConnClark is trying to increase the efficiency of the alternator itself.
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