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Subject:Re: Can you run two alternators at once?
From:Mark B. Magee
Date:Wed, 30 Sep 1998 08:54:11 -0500

David Marshall wrote:

> My 90A alternator packed it in - dead windings.  A new one is a little more
> than what I want to pay for right now.  Currently I am running a Motorola
> 65A in it's place.  I have another matching 65A alternator on my work
> bench.  It is possible to run two at the same time for an effective 130A?
> If they will interfere with each other would one be able to use an RV solid
> state battery isolator between them?
>
> Need more power!

 David,
I would pack in that idea, you are headed for complicated heartache I fear.
Take in your 90 amp unit and get it rebuilt at an alternator/starter rebuilder
shop, probably $70 or so. Or get one out of a boneyard.
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