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Originally Posted by Daox
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.
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But a 1hp decrease on the motor, plus a 1hp boost in power would net 2hp. It would be a cool project. I don't know enough about alternators and generators to probably attempt this, but I do have several alternators that could be sacrificed to test.
