I would be looking at the path of least resistance... so maybe I will check those two models out. I have had excellent luck with the Alphas, I just want to see about taking a less complex model, that has less maintenance and wear items (considering where the world may be headed, I am trying to build up more robust solutions for my own backup) and mate it to the VERY high quality genheads I have here. I already know what voltage regulator I want to use, its really more of figuring out if there is a suitable powerplant to do what I am thinking.
I have already bingo'd Gary @ DES directly by email. Perhaps he will come upon this thread as well. Thanks for the insight.