The
Rally
Rectifier
Rebuild
Rally
Rectifier
Rebuild
Here of photo's of Tim House rebuilding a
rectifier. A hope to get in touch with him soon
to see how his rebuild went. Whatever the
result it's cool to see the innards of the
rectifiers.
At the bottom of this photo there appears to
be two resisters that are installed in parallel
with the old rectifier unit. You can see both the
yellow wires from the spades to diodes, and the
brown wires from the diodes to the rectifier.
Resisters help take the peaks off the fluctuating
AC current coming from the stator.
Without them, you may boil your battery or
blow out your bulbs. If they are capacitors,
they would help fill in the "valleys" of AC current.
rectifier. A hope to get in touch with him soon
to see how his rebuild went. Whatever the
result it's cool to see the innards of the
rectifiers.
At the bottom of this photo there appears to
be two resisters that are installed in parallel
with the old rectifier unit. You can see both the
yellow wires from the spades to diodes, and the
brown wires from the diodes to the rectifier.
Resisters help take the peaks off the fluctuating
AC current coming from the stator.
Without them, you may boil your battery or
blow out your bulbs. If they are capacitors,
they would help fill in the "valleys" of AC current.
What Tim did was to solder the blue and brown
wires together, and connected them to the AC
in leads on the bridge rectifier. Then connected
the negative lead on the rectifier to the black
ground wire, and the positive lead on the
rectifier to the white wire, (DC output).
wires together, and connected them to the AC
in leads on the bridge rectifier. Then connected
the negative lead on the rectifier to the black
ground wire, and the positive lead on the
rectifier to the white wire, (DC output).
