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Default diesel engine use with no battery
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Even a car with an alternator needs some little bit of battery power
to get going. The alternator will not put out until you excite the
field, something I found out when I built this
http://gfretwell.com/electrical/redneck_power.jpg
Hence the little Gel Cell.

Now back in the olden days when motor cycles had generators they did
build choppers with no battery, usually based on Triumphs, that only
had a tomato paste can sized capacitor stuffed in there somewhere to
hold enough power to get it going.

Looks like a pressure washer turned into a generator?
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