I thought the logic was to deal with the ripple in the parts of the cable that were carrying rectified single phase where there would be a considerable ripple. The rectified two phase will have some ripple but I really cant see it bothering anything.
Well, I guess as long as I got it hooked up, I'll try it and see if it does anything. After I looked at the wiring diagram again I got confused because nobody hooks up a DC wire run that way. At least not that I've ever seen. The single phase branch circuits on the DC side, the way I have it hooked up, are maybe at most about 6" long to get from the individual rectifiers to the power studs where the big DC cables hook up.
I suppose I could unhook one stator and do a test run in just single phase with and without those capacitors. Would that be useful? The only thing I'm a little scared of is how do you unhook and discharge those capacitors without getting big sparks? My friend at the motor shop told me how to get them hooked up without getting big sparks, but I forgot to ask about how to remove them without getting big sparks. I'd better call him this morning and see what he says.
The more I look at this setup, the more doubts I have that it's even remotely a good idea. I know for a fact I would never run it in a real world installation because the generator and turbine works good the way it is.
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Chris
Edit: I called Sparky at the motor shop. He said to unhook the negative cable at the battery bank, then hook up my AVR to the cables coming from the rectifier with the capacitors in the line. Slowly turn up the variable resistor on the AVR to safely discharge the capacitors without big sparks. That AVR will handle 1,200 amps and he said it won't hurt it to just put a few tenths of an ohm across the capacitors to draw the juice out.
I'll try this in single phase a little later after I fix an oil leak on my hydraulic power unit.