Post by chewbaca on Oct 1, 2020 13:01:09 GMT -5
ah ok
so the way it works is your stator should be sized to be just slightly more than you need to run your electric system
and charge the battery a little tiny bit at a 700 to 1000 rpm idle. the voltage goes up with the rpm anything over 13.5v to 14v is dumped into a resister. this stops the voltage from going to high and damaging your stuff.
it doesn't stop the stator from pulling more and more power out of the engine as the rpm rises. unregulated would probably be something like 70v or 80v
so at higher rpm large amounts of power are just dumped into that resistor and it can get very hot. I have seen them melt the plastic around them if not in a well ventilated place in the scooter.
you can't pull only the power you need out like you can with an automotive alternator. The scooter is basically running a permanent magnet generator that pulls a fixed percentage of available engine power and either supplies it to necessary electric components or dumps it into heat.
so it directly slows you down all the time even with the radio off.
so the way it works is your stator should be sized to be just slightly more than you need to run your electric system
and charge the battery a little tiny bit at a 700 to 1000 rpm idle. the voltage goes up with the rpm anything over 13.5v to 14v is dumped into a resister. this stops the voltage from going to high and damaging your stuff.
it doesn't stop the stator from pulling more and more power out of the engine as the rpm rises. unregulated would probably be something like 70v or 80v
so at higher rpm large amounts of power are just dumped into that resistor and it can get very hot. I have seen them melt the plastic around them if not in a well ventilated place in the scooter.
you can't pull only the power you need out like you can with an automotive alternator. The scooter is basically running a permanent magnet generator that pulls a fixed percentage of available engine power and either supplies it to necessary electric components or dumps it into heat.
so it directly slows you down all the time even with the radio off.