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Jed, now you have to explain HOW you pulled that off...  Also, can it produce AC as well or has it been converted to DC only.

I asks because I once tried hard to make a Jen 15 produce both AC and DC like on original Jensen 51's, but I failed to pull it off.

Never too old to learn how it's done.

Rog

Rog, it was mind numbing at first, but I had someone explain it to me simply that it all made sense. I don't have an electrical engineering degree, but I do understand how it works.

I have tested the generator on a #55 and it does produce AC and DC current. When I have a DC motor attached to the leads, it runs. When I touch the leads to the light post side and contact, which is the AC side, the motor will only pulse back and forth. This is how I truly knew that this was truly AC/DC. Not only that, but I can hook a 9v battery to the leads and it will run as a motor.  The light bulb knows no AC/DC current. Electricity only knows path of least resistance and the tungsten in the bulb is the resistance, so that's why it works. Why does a 2.47 volt bulb not burn out when hooked to a 9v DC charger? The windings in the armature create enough resistance to drop thw voltage and that is why it doesn't burn out.