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[dsn_klr650] mounting ortlieb's

Posted: Fri Jul 07, 2000 11:21 pm
by Ted Palmer
Skip Faulkner wrote: [...]
> Jim, I believe you`re confusing the regulator with something else. The old > point regulators > ( like on my 72` Suburban) and many older aircraft work by controlling the > field current to the alternator ( to a preset limit) in effect taking the > alternator off-line, thousands of times a minute.
[...] Fine for an alternator that actually has a controllable field coil. When you have an alternator that uses permanent magnets, how do you control it? Mister_T