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MBounds,

Why the heck do you think I need to stop reading non-sense????? I agree with pretty everything you said!!! AND so does Wikipedia!!!! It is a good source for info other than politics, that you have to watch what it says.

I will correct my statement that generators only produce DC. Generators can do both, but more specifically, when a generator is producing AC, it can them be called both a generator and an alternator. Hence you can call the Merk's alternator a generator too. The reverse cannot be said, you cannot call an alternator a generator since not all generators produce an alternating current.