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technology has come a very long way since these units were built. The alternator setup makes a lot more sense back then because that's where the technology was. I've worked on 30-40 year old generators with battery chargers that involve heavy transformer coils and electronic control boards...

That's pretty much how every home standby generator has been set up in the past 20 years (some have the charger built into the controller, others have a separate module). The newer ones even require their own 15 amp breaker from the house on the transferred side of the panel. Usually it's no...