On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 07:22:49AM -0800, rob linda wrote:
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> Ben,
> Just in case: Does the alternator have a "sense-wire"? Is it connected direct
> to the battery?
I wish it did. :((( The only external connection it has, other than the
power output, is the tach signal. I'll need to pull it apart, cut the
regulator output leg away from the field, and lead out two wires across
that gap; connecting them together will give me internal regulation,
disconnecting them and feeding a control voltage to the field side would
give me an externally-controllable alternator. It's a bit of a chore,
though.
> If not, do you use a diode bridge to separate banks ? That would screw the
> regulator seeing the real battery voltage (Diodes have 0.7 Voltage drop) and
> tapering of the charge current way to early.
No, the house bank and the starting battery are manually controlled; I
just got rid of the Blue Seas ACR a couple of days ago (it was adding
even more weirdness to the overall picture) and replaced it with a
simple switch (to be replaced by a Yandina Combiner later.) I definitely
would not use diodes in a battery system.
Thanks for the suggestions, though!
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Ben Okopnik
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