Now that the basic power lighting components are installed and the motorcycle is put mostly back together I have a pair of yellow wires with quick connectors near the radiator that that come directly from the stator’s lighting windings. These can be to connected either to the bike’s light system or something else like a multimeter. The lighting system is rated at 12V AC nominal and the regulator falls beyond this point in the circuit so I set my meter range to 20V AC and connected the probes. This yielded a reading at idle of about 11 volts AC which I intend to convert to DC and store in a capacitor. One simple device that will handle regulation/rectification and oversee battery status and charging is a charge controller. I have a basic sunforce charge controller that I intend to use as it is laying around from this summer’s obsession with solar panels. Since Sunforce’s website doesn’t include a guerrilla photo of the gadget’s guts I have voided the warranty to check it out myself. I am not the best with printed circuit boards and their family of chips but I believe the rectifier chip is towards the top of this board. It is attached to a very simple heatsink that looks to be made of aluminum. This charge controller looks like it will work well as the max output of the stator/flywheel combo is 70 watts according to the manufacturer Trail Tech. Remembering A x V=W we can derive that this is about 6 amps and the charge controller can handle 7 amps so this controller could handle the full output that this electromagnetic AC system could produce.
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- stator leads
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- 11 volt unregulated output
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- charge controller
