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April 20th 04, 10:08 PM
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That is a good point...bad regulator putting out high voltage. How high can the alternator go with a runaway regulator?
-- Dan D. http://www.ameritech.net/users/ddevillers/start.html .. "TaxSrv" wrote in message ... "GeorgeB" wrote in message Now, let's have the alternator charging the battery, and have it at 15.5V or so ... now I have 3.8 volts across that current determining resistor ... 12 times the "design". OUCH. 15.5V is not a normal charging voltage, and if sustained will ruin the battery. It would only be a fault condition with a regulator gone bad. I think you can safely calculate dropping resistors based on 14.5V max. Fred F. 
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