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Default How Hot should an alternator get?

On Thu, 20 Jul 2006 07:49:13 -0700, RW Salnick
wrote:

Don't forget that a diesel engine, which has no throttle butterfly, is
moving a lot of air out of the compartment all the time it is running


Yes. The exhaust blowers are mostly for after the diesel engines have
shut down.