Your car only starts reliably because two electrical workhorses share the load. The battery delivers instant power on demand, ...

Alternators began to replace generators in modern cars in the 1960s thanks to how many advantages they offered for efficiency ...

When assessing your street rod's charging system, it's important to understand how an alternator works and what other factors may affect its performance. Simply put, alternators are converters. They ...

I’m a former mechanic and I have a question for you. Some of your answers refer to alternators that have “died.” But as far as I know, you have never written about why they die. I know about bearings ...

In the early muscle-car days, an alternator capable of 60 amps was considered more than enough to handle the meager electrical demands of a point-triggered ignition system, a 20-amp defroster fan, and ...

I wanted a backup alternator for my ambulance. [We'd try to explain why Ramsey has an ambulance in the first place, but you really just need to read his previous Jambulance adventures or else move ...