chrisf
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| posted on 29/6/06 at 03:06 AM |
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Grounded rectifier
Hi All:
I spent the evening trolling around motorcycle forums when I came across a post where a fireblade owner earthed his rectifier to the chassis. He said
this decreased the heat in the three yellow wires between the blade stator and rectifier. I didn't do this, but the connection between the
rectifier and the stator does get very, very hot.
Do you blade owner earth your rectifier?
--Thanks, Chris
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Hellfire
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| posted on 29/6/06 at 06:54 AM |
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The rectifier is always best when given some sort of "Heat Sink". IIRC the original Honda rectifier has small copper/brass bushes in the
fixing holes which suggest to me that the unit should be earthed.
Our's was mounted up in front of the engine right into the nose cone on a large aluminium plate. Obviously this was earthed...
HTH - Steve
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02GF74
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| posted on 29/6/06 at 07:58 AM |
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there is more to this than meets the eye;
depending on the elctrical circuit and what was actually done, having a better earth i.e. lower resistance could well mean tha more current would flow
so that would have the opppostive effect,
I suspect, as ^^^^ said, slapping the unit on some chunky metal lowers its temperature as it acts as a heatsink.
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tks
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| posted on 29/6/06 at 04:59 PM |
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the unit doesn´t need a earth on the body...
but its better for leaving the heat where it needs to be also the current is limited true the engine revs...
i think the rectifier just heats up the wires if not good heatsinked its amazing
while soldering 2 wires the wires also become quet hot altough you only apply heat on the conection..
Sow better heatsink is always less trouble..
but i´m sute it isn´t use as a ground ground...
The above comments are always meant to be from the above persons perspective.
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