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Re: voltmeter vs ammeter [was: LEDs]

Subject: Re: voltmeter vs ammeter [was: LEDs]
From: McFadyean <ami@mcfadyean.freeserve.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 21:04:25
This is how the Rotax regulator works! i.e.  SCRs that dump the "unused 
current".

Duncan McFadyean


On Sunday, March 24, 2002 10:58 PM, europa-builder@ntlworld.com 
[SMTP:europa-builder@ntlworld.com]
wrote:
> 

> BTW, I'm not sure what type of bike(s) you're used to, but have you seen the
> regulator circuit on a Harley? Disgusting... it puts an SCR accross the
> output and starts to short things out when it get's a bit too high (that's
> what it looked like to me anyway, but there's a lot of silicon in there and
> I might have scribbled the circuit down wrong).  Just think of the power
> lost due to back EMF!
> 
> Cheers,
> Mark.
> 
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