Thanks Bruce! I don't have an amp meter that I can hook up in series. For an amp meter, I just have an inductive clamp type for AC lines.
OK..I looked up the head lights. They are Sylvania H6024, 55 watts ea. as I burned them.
Their brightness depended on the rotor speed...at the slowest ~70 rpm..they are yellow and at the fastest that I ran, ~120 rpm...they were dazzling white. (real technical stuff here :)
Here's a few reading that I took with 2 headlights hooked up:
At 70 rpm: AC voltage across the 3 legs at "A" measured 4.1V per leg with a current of 1.5A per leg. The DC voltage at "B" measured 4.4VDC.
At 80 rpm: AC volts at "A" measured 5.0 VAC at 2.2 amps per leg and teh DC voltage at "B" was 5.5 VDC.
The AC current was measured with an inductive type clamp on meter.
I left it running for about 30 minutes. The stator and recifiers were just a little warm..not much heat...but I stsrted to notice some oozing liquid around a coil in the polyester resin....not sure what it was...then I think saw some discoloring in the resign from random "hot spots" in the coils. So I shut everything down.
Oh yeah...here's my open DC voltages:
-Rob
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