I'm sure this question has been asked many times before, but does a stock Tornado 230 have a alternator or a generator? It says generator on the side plate, but everyone says it's an alternator.
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Sergeant
Alternator/Generator
I'm sure this question has been asked many times before, but does a stock Tornado 230 have a alternator or a generator? It says generator on the side plate, but everyone says it's an alternator.
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Staff Sergeant
It is an alternator...Originally Posted by militarypotts
Grand Poobah
Yep...it is an alternator from the factory...I dont know of any of the older generators that would be a direct bolt on either...the unit that the M715 uses interchanges with those used on many other MV's of the era...different manufacturers, like Ford, Leece Neville, etc. but all alternators and interchangeable.
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Chief 9-flats
As stated above. The M715 came with an alternator. Everything I have researched shows them to be the first MV to leave the factory with internal regulated alternators. Everything else in production at the time had the externally regulated generators and were then transitioned into the alternators.
Yes, it is possible to get one of the external generators, swap the pulleys and bolt it right up to the stock alternator mount. Then of course the regulator will have to be mounted somewhere and then wired up. It can be done but with the "bread box" regulator boxes going for almost $100 not including the generator on auction sites. Why?
I went the other way on my Gasser M35. To the same alternator the M715 has. Much better.
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Sergeant
That answers that, thanks. Any reason the steel plate on the alternator says generator on it? I guess that's what confused me.
militarypotts Spec/4 Military Police, Vietnam Era, "Does the noise in my head bother you? Welcome to the Twilight Zone!"
Chief 9-flats
An alternator is officially an "AC Generator." People just started using alternator to keep down the confusion between an AC generator and a DC generator. That is my guess at least.
Remember if you didn't build it you can't call it yours.
6.2 powered M715, 5 M1009's, M416, 2 M101's, 2 M105's, 3 M35's, M1007 6.5 turbo Suburban project called Cowdog.
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Grand Poobah
Wow...seems so simple but I never caught that before...thanks Tim!
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