voltage trouble

[winddreamer]

i have a 10' 24 N42 magnet 70 turn coils i have problem. i am getting 35-45 ac volts between phases but when i hook up the rectifiers i am only getting 4-5 dc volts out the rectifier. part # is 36MB80A / if that helps i hooked them up according to this page http://otherpower.com/rectifier.html any ideas on what I have done wrong?  

thanks for the help

[hiker]

could be a bad rect..or a missed wired one??

thats my guess...heres a digram..you could use three rects ...instead of just the two

[snowcrow]

It sounds like you might have the leads reversed on one phase on the DC side of a rectifier bridge?

[luv2weld]

I'm thinking hiker is right. But more info or a picture would be helpful.

Has it ever worked properly and now isn't??? If it never worked right,

disconnect everything and then following the page you referenced, hook it

up again and check the output. If it did work properly once, then it is a

bad rectifier. In reference to hikers picture, I would not use the diagram

on the left (only 2 rectifiers). If the rectifier with 2 wires shorts out,

you instantly put the brakes on. Had it happen to me. Now I use 3 rectifiers.

Do you know how to check the rectifiers using a multimeter??

Ralph

[Flux]

Does the thing become difficult to turn when you connect the rectifier?. If it does then you have connected it wrongly or it is faulty.

I believe there are cheap rectifiers out there with wrongly marked connections, that would really cause confusion.

Also check that all three ac voltages are equal.  Make sure you are measuring the output of the rectifier on the DC volts range.

Flux

[winddreamer]

i have replaced the rectifiers and all seems to be ok now

i found the first ones  in a old box at work must of been burnt out