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MEXICOWANDERER
Apr 27, 2015Explorer
What is this guy? An idiot?
Those four base mounting slots are to affix the rectifier bridge to a heat sink. A real one. A finned aluminum sink the size of a 120-amp rectifier-type battery isolator. The base of the rectifier bridge is insulated so no worries about stray voltage. ALLELECTRONICS.COM sells a nice large heat sink that would work fine. Use transistor/CPU thermal grease to thermally bond the rectifier bridge to the heat sink. Do not mount with fins vertical. If you have an alternator with a rectified wye stator use a pair of full wave bridge rectifiers to rectify the wye.on your new package. You'll gain a substantial amount of amperage
These are fun projects.
And don't forget to twist the three stator wires between the alt and remote rectifier. Electronic noise cancelling.
Those four base mounting slots are to affix the rectifier bridge to a heat sink. A real one. A finned aluminum sink the size of a 120-amp rectifier-type battery isolator. The base of the rectifier bridge is insulated so no worries about stray voltage. ALLELECTRONICS.COM sells a nice large heat sink that would work fine. Use transistor/CPU thermal grease to thermally bond the rectifier bridge to the heat sink. Do not mount with fins vertical. If you have an alternator with a rectified wye stator use a pair of full wave bridge rectifiers to rectify the wye.on your new package. You'll gain a substantial amount of amperage
These are fun projects.
And don't forget to twist the three stator wires between the alt and remote rectifier. Electronic noise cancelling.
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