The present invention provides a novel thermal solid state method for the synthesis of lithium hexfluoroarsenate either in a two step or a single step method, preferably at last substantially in the solid state. The vehicle alternator utilizes a voltage regulator with a microprocessor to control an amount of torque loading, based on a rotational speed of a rotor of the alternator, or an amount of current output by the alternator, or both. The encoder includes an illumination compensation processing unit for applying illumination compensation to predicted data obtained from the non-local intra prediction.