This message from Cetin Seren may be of interest to those who expressed interest in the controller. Apparently, alternators on newer cars are equipped with the low-consumption smart voltage comparator chip. >All European cars 75 and up have these solid state regulators -- a lot >cheaper to manufacture and they last much longer, and they are much >moer sensitive... It took the U.S. automotive industry a little >longer to catch up, as usual... > >In terms of pulling them from junkyards, they are usually these >little inch-sized (or smaller) little cubes piggy-backed on the >alternators -- rectifier and voltage regulator all in one. -- Sami ('75 Westf.) dakhlia@wuecona.wustl.edu http://wuecon.wustl.edu/~samid/
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