Letsgosailing wrote: > Norm, > That will not work, You need to rectify the ac to dc to charge the battery. > It is not only the regulator that is needed to make it work. > > Yanni Marinated > S/V Princess Thalia > Hamilton-Fifty Point @H3 > www.yannismarine.ca > ----- Original Message ----- > He's not suggesting using the field wire as the output, but to use the normal output terminal. The field wire will be used with the rheostat to act like a manually controlled regulator.
It's been years since I worked with alternators but IIRC the diodes in those days were rated at a fairly low voltage, 36 V comes to mind. I assume they are much higher today since technology has advanced considerably since then. Jim. _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list [email protected] To adjust your membership settings over the web http://www.liveaboardnow.org/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] The archives are at http://www.liveaboardnow.org/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
