"Tim" wrote:

Well Lew,

I've seen many a 130A L/N come in with stators fried to a crisp due
to
rotten batteries and/or dubious ground cables. (but usually the
pos.
rectifier was toast too!)

so.......

?; *)

When the system goes South, all bets are off, especially when field
control becomes suspect due to external conditions.

Lew