Elvis Hargrove wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:
-> How would you start it,  then?  Just use a battery temporarily from
-> some other source?
 EH> Well Roy, I've got standby generators that start both ways.
 EH> 1. Via the generator cranking the engine.
 EH> 2. By way of a normal flywheel starter motor.
 EH> Of the two, the starter motor is the easier to live with but 
 EH> the dang Battery is ALWAYS dead when you need it.  So, you 
 EH> might just as well use the generator cranking method and be 
 EH> prepared to BRING a battery when you want to crank it.
 EH> I've not seen a generator cranking system that could crank a 
 EH> 350 Chevy though.  (And LORD how I hates magnetos!)
Why is that?  I have no experience with those...
 EH> As much as I respect Craig's design theory, I think a 12v 
 EH> starter motor and a electronic ignition system would be better.
I'm happy to see this subject come up again,  as I still would like to 
someday put something together with a small engine so I can have some standby 
power.
But right now I've got a truck to build,  so it's really a someday sorta 
project...
email: roy.j.tellason%tanstaaf@frackit.com 
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