K8MHZ
Senior Member
- Occupation
- Electrician
Hm, this reminds me an old question I wondered about since I was a kid. Why do we have separate starter and alternator? A motor is basically nothing else but the abverse of a generator?
At one time we didn't. Vehicles came with starter/generators back in the days of old.
I worked on a Harley golf cart that had one and the owner was totally baffled because he spent hours looking for the generator and couldn't find it.
The reason the auto industry stopped the practice is now irrelevant as alternators can't be used as starters like generators could.