Alternator/Generator

Charliebrn · Apr 10, 2002

I see that some little GT's are now advertising that their garden tractors have a built in generator. This sounds like a great idea! Now I know it's not big enough to run a house or anything large, but it'd sure be nice to run a saw or drill out in the back 40 easily. It would be nice to have it replace the Alternator/Dynamo of the BX so it was always on board, not something I'd have to mount/dismount all the time.

Has anyone seen one of these GTs and how they are doing it? Its' something I want to do.....

Egon · Apr 10, 2002

Perhaps they are hooking an inverter to the battery to give 120 volts.

Egon

John_Mc · Apr 10, 2002

John Deere is the one that is building in the generator on some of their garden tractors... handy idea.

Thomas · Apr 11, 2002

I believe Cub Cadet also had them..mid sixty up thru.

One good thing about the setup..once you started the tractor you didn't need your battery any longer.