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Forum: Electrical: Batteries, Generators & Solar 19-07-2013, 17:20
Replies: 61
Views: 12,620
Posted By pbiJim
Re: Alternator Positive Wire Sizing

Dave,
Thank you for the link. That technical paper was certainly well researched & explained quite a bit in good detail.

Unfortunately, that paper only seems to cover valve regulated lead acid...
Forum: Electrical: Batteries, Generators & Solar 19-07-2013, 16:50
Replies: 61
Views: 12,620
Posted By pbiJim
Re: Alternator Positive Wire Sizing

Dave,
So then, are you saying that when a battery heats up from high charge currents, it looses it's counter EMF?
Forum: Electrical: Batteries, Generators & Solar 19-07-2013, 15:39
Replies: 61
Views: 12,620
Posted By pbiJim
Re: Alternator Positive Wire Sizing

Dave,
Thank you for that most eloquent description. I now have a much better understanding of the point you were trying to make.

You did however, touch on one issue that I am not particularly...
Forum: Electrical: Batteries, Generators & Solar 19-07-2013, 15:26
Replies: 61
Views: 12,620
Posted By pbiJim
Re: Alternator Positive Wire Sizing

This is true if someone is suffering from a case of small alternator syndrome. For the rest of us, it works as was otherwise described.

Please do feel free to let loose with the EE terminology....
Forum: Electrical: Batteries, Generators & Solar 19-07-2013, 15:18
Replies: 61
Views: 12,620
Posted By pbiJim
Re: Alternator Positive Wire Sizing

Hellosailor, I see that you & I have been down some of the same bumpy roads in the past. The only thing that I could possibly disagree with in this last post is the idea that getting rid of the...
Forum: Electrical: Batteries, Generators & Solar 19-07-2013, 14:14
Replies: 61
Views: 12,620
Posted By pbiJim
Re: Alternator Positive Wire Sizing

This is true & this is why I spoke of "The voltage regulator on a traditional alternator".

More modern alternators have regulators that work on a variety of proprietary principals. The most...
Forum: Electrical: Batteries, Generators & Solar 19-07-2013, 12:58
Replies: 61
Views: 12,620
Posted By pbiJim
Re: Alternator Positive Wire Sizing

Since we seem to have a few people here that actually understand these systems well enough, I'll throw in an extra little tidbit of background theory, just for academic purposes.

The voltage...
Forum: Electrical: Batteries, Generators & Solar 18-07-2013, 20:35
Replies: 61
Views: 12,620
Posted By pbiJim
Re: Alternator Positive Wire Sizing

I wish that I had read this before I posted my last post. I now see where the problem came from. I see that that your comments regarding my previous post assumed that the batteries were wired...
Forum: Electrical: Batteries, Generators & Solar 18-07-2013, 20:23
Replies: 61
Views: 12,620
Posted By pbiJim
Re: Alternator Positive Wire Sizing

Dave, I am trying really hard to fight back the urge to post back to you, something you posted to me recently & simply say that this post is quite frankly rubbish. I am having a very hard time...
Forum: Electrical: Batteries, Generators & Solar 18-07-2013, 20:09
Replies: 61
Views: 12,620
Posted By pbiJim
Re: Alternator Positive Wire Sizing

I believe this to be a completely accurate description of reality.
Forum: Electrical: Batteries, Generators & Solar 18-07-2013, 09:54
Replies: 61
Views: 12,620
Posted By pbiJim
Re: Alternator Positive Wire Sizing

As I understand it, the battery doesn't set the voltage, the voltage regulator does. As I understand it, the voltage regulator adjusts the output voltage of the alternator to be higher than the...
Forum: Electrical: Batteries, Generators & Solar 18-07-2013, 09:04
Replies: 61
Views: 12,620
Posted By pbiJim
Re: Alternator Positive Wire Sizing

If the starter battery & the domestic battery are isolated by the battery switch not being set to both, & you charge the domestic battery with the sense wire on the start battery, then the regulator...
Forum: Electrical: Batteries, Generators & Solar 18-07-2013, 08:34
Replies: 61
Views: 12,620
Posted By pbiJim
Re: Alternator Positive Wire Sizing

Ah, so then in the case that you have multiple battery banks that are independently switched & you do not have independent charging systems on each bank, you can't use a sense wire because depending...
Forum: Electrical: Batteries, Generators & Solar 18-07-2013, 07:52
Replies: 61
Views: 12,620
Posted By pbiJim
Re: Alternator Positive Wire Sizing

Going back as far as a 1977 jeep that I used to have, the Delco alternator on that had a sensing wire on the regulator that would pick up the voltage at the battery itself, or wherever else in the...
Forum: Electrical: Batteries, Generators & Solar 17-07-2013, 22:38
Replies: 61
Views: 12,620
Posted By pbiJim
Re: Alternator Positive Wire Sizing

I see that some people are saying that #10 wire is way too small. I'm curious how that is being calculated. Local electrical code where I live allows 50 amps of house current through plain old #10...
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