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Title: 10 horse briggs engine
Post by: grampt1 on January 11, 2008, 10:00:25 AM

I have a 10 horse Briggs&Stration engine with a electric starte on my log splitter, I just added an elec winch to lift the logs and now I am concerend about how many amps I can draw out of the engine alternator before it burns up. Yesterday I measured it and the max was about 6 amps for a while then it dropped down to about 2 amps until the battery got charged back up , do you think this will eventually burn up the alternator or it's output modual?

Thanks for any help

Title: Re: 10 horse briggs engine
Post by: sawguy21 on January 11, 2008, 10:03:46 AM

Is this one of the ATV winches? You should be alright as long as the battery is fully charged when using the winch and the pulls are short.

Title: Re: 10 horse briggs engine
Post by: stonebroke on January 11, 2008, 10:15:27 AM

You might want to put a bigger battery or two batteries together. Then you would have more reserve capacity.

Stonebroke

Title: Re: 10 horse briggs engine
Post by: grampt1 on January 12, 2008, 09:33:08 AM

Thanks guys I will try a bigger battery and see what happens, I am using a small ridding lawn mower batt now

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