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Old 12-May-2008, 10:13 AM
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Originally Posted by ace holmes View Post
alternators have a higher electrical output with higher rpm
Alternators gain efficiency as RPM increases within their design criteria. This is a seperate issue since an alternator could also have been designed to operate at peak efficiency at the lower RPM.

Efficency is always lost in energy transfer. You cannot relate any misuse of the end output energy to the efficiency of the transfer system.
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