MEXICOWANDERER wrote:
These alternators have a 3.0 ohm rotor coil. At 14.5 volts = 4.83 amperes or 70 watts. You can come to your own conclusion about component life-span.
Is the only difference between a 50 watt and hundred watt 10 ohm resistor the Extra Surface area in which to dissipate the heat?
If so hopefully I mitigated that with the added heatsink on the 50 watt resistor.
Can't remember for sure, but believe I have seen 6.8 amps of field current on my field wire from transpo540HD when the battery was super depleted with my DC clamp meter.
