A starter includes a pinion gear, an actuator for moving the pinion gear to a position where the pinion gear is engaged with a ring gear in a driven state, and a motor for rotating the pinion gear. The pressure control valve is arranged in such a way that the exit of the gas passage leads directly into a volume with ambient pressure. Reactant flow rate and reaction temperature are regulated by the rate of introduction of ammonia and cooling, as necessary The ratio of hydrogen fluoride to ammonia in the reactor is significantly lower than taught in the prior art. Structure is provided for conveying some of the gas arriving at the gas inlet into the chamber containing the motor winding, and gas conveyed by the structure is admitted into the chamber containing the winding through the gas intake orifice. When the BASload balancer of the invention sets up a dynamic connection between the user networks, the balancer determines the load balancing target apparatus which is a relay destination using an arbitrary load balancing algorithm for both send and receive communications traffic in the user network.