cavelamb wrote:
GTH wrote:

I challenge you to

do this test on your plane at cruise rpm with lots of avionics load and
prove me wrong!


That's what overvoltage protection is made for : in the airplane I
built, within a few milliseconds, the OV relay opens and disconnects
the alternator from the ship's circuit.


Regards,
Gilles Thesee
Grenoble, France
http://contrails.free.fr



Well, yeahbut...

Ellipse's method avoids the situation in the first place...


Having a storage battery in the circuit avoids the situation too. The
battery, barring bad connections, will soak up the initial surge. The
overvoltage protection device is unlikely to trip in Ellipse's scenario,
because it won't need to.