Hello there, this is Marty Kokish and welcome to Marty's Garage. I'm just kind of dinking around right now. It's middle of the week. I don't want to get into two huge of a project, so the engine remains in the car right now. But like I said, I was just thinking around with the alternator and I was just kind of painted up or whatever. But I thought maybe, hey, maybe I should talk about alternators and what they do a little bit. Your car uses electricity. It's got spark plugs that it needs to fire sparks through and you've got GPS and radios and lights and all sorts of crap that needs electricity. So, you know, your battery can't do it all myself. So we have an alternator. What an alternator is, is basically it's an AC generator. And I'll just kind of show you some pieces of it. But they all kind of usually look the same. They're usually aluminum housing. They've got this fan like this on here and they're usually driven by a belt that is run off the crank shaft. So usually you'd see it mounted somewhere on the front, usually up here, up here on your engine. And there'd be a belt that comes off your crank shaft here, runs your alternator. So I don't know. Kind of one of the best ways I saw it explained is AC generator kind of works like a pump. But instead of pushing water, it pushes electrons. And so I'll kind of how this works. You can see, can you see in the back here? Down here in the bottom there's these two pole things. You see that? What those do is they kind of sit on the back here when it's in the middle and once it's on the side. Even as this rotor assembly is spinning, there's a consistent contact or whatever. But what happens is a voltage from the battery flows in here and this rotor here is actually a big electromagnet. So as the crank shaft spins this guy around like that, those magnets are flying around. This is called a stator. It's basically a big winding of wires or whatever. But as it spins around in here, it's pumping electricity through here. That is rectified right here. So with your alternating current, you're going positive, down to zero, down to negative, down to negative. What this does is all these doodads and stuff back here. They just regulate the amount of voltage coming out in the shape until it's all the same polarity. It's kind of neat, but that's about it. So this all feeds back into your car and charges you better. Yeah, that's about all I know. That's probably a half-ass explanation. But that's what I got. So now I'm just going to wire brush these up and clean them up. They're all on the paint this. I think I'm going to go paint this really thin gear. I'm going to paint this black and these. I'm just going to touch up with some silver. The outer piece of the stator here, I'm going to do black. This is going to be silver. It's plastic housing that sits on the back. I've already painted that black. So that's an alternator. And earlier, you'll find a generator. And that's a DC generator. I don't know. But yeah, I guess it's... I believe the cars are for the most part of the DC, but I think the reasoning behind moving towards an alternator versus the generator was family, the size, and so you can make them smaller. Yeah. So that's all I got for today. As always, send me feedback. I like hearing from you guys. I'm already scratching a Gmail.com. It shows a bit of a whole lot of things in my place. So I have all the things I've done, I have a pretty good, guys. Anchor? Thank you.