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Daox · 04-27-2012, 10:25 AM

Its been talked about many times here on EM. The basic reason not to do it is because its a pain in the butt to make an alternator a motor. Even if you do, you get a whopping ~1hp from it.

04-27-2012, 10:25 AM	#135 (permalink)
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