Re: Alternator drag on RPM?

Posted by KEB on March 05, 2007 at 20:43:14 from (72.19.170.5):

In Reply to: Alternator drag on RPM? posted by Jim Holtby on March 05, 2007 at 13:27:24:

Conservation of energy - energy is neither created nor lost, it can only change form (except in nuclear reactions). The alternator simply converts rotational (kinetic) energy that it gets from the engine into electrical energy and heat. Bigger load on the alternator means it must get more energy from the engine, hence increasing the load on the engine.

There have been any number of triestes (sp?) written on the mechanisms that convert kinetic to electrical energy instide a generator (or alternator), but for this discussion it really doesn't matter what the mechanism is.

Keith

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