> What the heck is a "delco light plant"?
 BB> Shoot, that's easy. My folks had one back on the farm. They got 
 BB> rid of it back about 1937 or so when the grid came to the farms 
 BB> in Nebr.  I was only about 6 or 7 then but the way I remember 
 BB> it, it was a little 2 or maybe 4 cylinder gas engine that ran a 
 BB> 32 volt generator to produce lights. I can still remember my 
 BB> dad and somebody else carrying the durn thing up and out of the 
 BB> basement where it sat for so long. Basically speaking, it 
 BB> wasn't much different than the little portable generators we 
 BB> see on the market today except that it was a lot bigger and 
 BB> didn't produce near the power some of those little ones do 
 BB> today.
Someone else answered this one as well...
I wonder where they came up with the 32 volt figure?  And where did you find 
light bulbs and such to work with that?  The only place I remember ever 
seeing light bulbs which would run on that (and they may have _been_ 32 volt, 
 but it's been so long I'm not sure) was on real old subway cars in the New 
York City subway system.  I used to ride the old Third Avenue El,  when it 
was still functional.
Come to think of it,  _those_ bulbs would only come on when the particular 
car you were in lost connection with the power and ran off battery power,  I 
wonder what sort of maintenance they used to have to do on the batteries on 
those cars?  I never heard anything about that,  and my father worked for the 
system for a number of years.
Hmm... 
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