10 horse briggs engine

[grampt1]

  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

[sawguy21]

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.

[stonebroke]

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

Stonebroke

[grampt1]

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