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MEXICOWANDERER
Oct 29, 2013Explorer
Automotive HAIR PIN alternators are six phase. The 3, 4 and 6G ford alternators use 3 phase Y wound stators with a rectified wye connection. Eight rectifiers. I am still old-school: 3-amps and under DIODES, 3 amps and above RECTIFIERS.
The links point to SIXTY KILOWATT 300 VOLT alternators little larger than a car alternator. When someone wises up and cools an alternator with pumped transmission fluid through a cooler, uses hairpin windings and FET rectification, things are going to get wild.
Try using .01uf ceramics phase to phase, and a 10Kuf 320 volt electrolytic cap on the output to calm things down. The alternator itself uses as OEM cap anywhere from .47uf to 2.2uf.
My monster "portable" battery charger is slated to use a pair of 300 amp shottky rectifiers, a GM style avalanche rectifier bridge with six rectifiers, a 2 farad capacitor.
The links point to SIXTY KILOWATT 300 VOLT alternators little larger than a car alternator. When someone wises up and cools an alternator with pumped transmission fluid through a cooler, uses hairpin windings and FET rectification, things are going to get wild.
Try using .01uf ceramics phase to phase, and a 10Kuf 320 volt electrolytic cap on the output to calm things down. The alternator itself uses as OEM cap anywhere from .47uf to 2.2uf.
My monster "portable" battery charger is slated to use a pair of 300 amp shottky rectifiers, a GM style avalanche rectifier bridge with six rectifiers, a 2 farad capacitor.
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