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500 W motorconversion finished | 37 comments (37 topical, 0 editorial)
Re: 500 W motorconversion finished (3.00 / 0) (#16)
by Ungrounded Lightning Rod on Fri Feb 29th, 2008 at 07:47:34 PM MST
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That's what's happening.  You're looking at the charging current vs. RPM-implied generated voltage.  So you're not just measuring the resistance of the genny.  You're adding in the battery resistance (along with the other wiring resistance and the slope of the rectifiers' non-linear E/I curve).

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500 W motorconversion finished | 37 comments (37 topical, 0 editorial)

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