Nerd Department Major Alternator Design Improvement
https://www.sae.org/publications/technical-papers/content/2017-01-1228/ Not quite the Holy Grail But close...
Forum Discussion
Chris Bryant wrote:
A 10% increase in efficiency is pretty extraordinary. If I understand correctly, they are basically doing active rectification, rather than passive- turning it on for the positive wave and off for negative (and vice versa).
True, but this requires some IMHO "tricky" synchronization !
