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Message: <blockquote data-quote="backlander" data-source="post: 107332" data-attributes="member: 2035"><p>I haven't seen anything in the system that allows the stator to be switched on or off.  The stator produces AC power from the time the rotor starts spinning around the stator until the rotor stops.  Think about it, only power leads, 3 yellow, come from the stator up to the reg/rec,  there are no direct grounds to any phase of the stator to attempt to shut it down, which would in effect be the same as a break in the windings causing the stator to fry.  IMHO.  The mofset just does a better, cooler job of bleeding off the excess voltage not needed at any one particular time.  It's interesting though.  The only way to turn the stator off would be to break down the magnetic field produced which would require electro magnets in the rotor that could be switched on or off breaking down the ability of the stator to produce power and that's just not the way the GL system is built.</p></blockquote><p></p>