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jwiedmayer:
I went back through some of your posts and links. Wow!
You have made this your mission in life! I applaud your perseverance!
Yes, I guess I understand your diagram and think it should work - but don't take my word for it. The difference on my kit is that there is a seperate switching wire and a relay in the ballast box. The problem is that the relay will not operate on AC so I would need to have another relay activated by the AC light circuit to send DC to the integral relay.
From what I can deduce, one charging coil wire is grounded. I take it that a "floating" system means it is isolated and not connected to a frame ground -or both wires running to a reg/rec.
The electric start Yamaha's have both the AC and DC circuits grouded through the frame and the rectifier is also grounded. That may be because the single diode system will work that way and a diode trio will not. I am not going to attempt to figure that out. My head is starting to hurt already.
I think you would want to insulate the entire body of the rectifier if you choose to go with the grounded system because touching it with a wrench or something and grounding it while working on something would blow it. And you would have to leave the original reg/rec in place to regulate the AC circuit. If it will work that way, that could be the next roadblock.
The simplest way seems to be the way you want to do it and what I like is that without the draw of the headlight on the light circuit, it would give me lots of extra power to do things with.
The problem may be the aforementioned possibility of overheating and burning out the battery charging coil(s) because of the extra amps flowing through.
How about running both circuits together? Disconnect both circuits ground wires on the stator and connect them together. Connect both external wires from the stator to the full wave rectifier. The coils would not be overloaded. No insulation needed. Only one regulator needed. No smoothing diode. No capacitor. A relay to turn off the lights would still be needed. But the original tach would not work. It could be driven by the AC before the reg/rec, but the number of poles would be wrong and I believe cause an incorrect reading. Maybe not- try it. A different type of tach could probably be used.
I am going to have to take a break on this. As I see it I have three choices.
1. Give up on HID and use one of the new, high power incandescents.
2. Let you tear your hair out and figure it out and then just do it the way you did.
3. Just buy a damn Ski-Doo with DC.
I went back through some of your posts and links. Wow!
You have made this your mission in life! I applaud your perseverance!
Yes, I guess I understand your diagram and think it should work - but don't take my word for it. The difference on my kit is that there is a seperate switching wire and a relay in the ballast box. The problem is that the relay will not operate on AC so I would need to have another relay activated by the AC light circuit to send DC to the integral relay.
From what I can deduce, one charging coil wire is grounded. I take it that a "floating" system means it is isolated and not connected to a frame ground -or both wires running to a reg/rec.
The electric start Yamaha's have both the AC and DC circuits grouded through the frame and the rectifier is also grounded. That may be because the single diode system will work that way and a diode trio will not. I am not going to attempt to figure that out. My head is starting to hurt already.
I think you would want to insulate the entire body of the rectifier if you choose to go with the grounded system because touching it with a wrench or something and grounding it while working on something would blow it. And you would have to leave the original reg/rec in place to regulate the AC circuit. If it will work that way, that could be the next roadblock.
The simplest way seems to be the way you want to do it and what I like is that without the draw of the headlight on the light circuit, it would give me lots of extra power to do things with.
The problem may be the aforementioned possibility of overheating and burning out the battery charging coil(s) because of the extra amps flowing through.
How about running both circuits together? Disconnect both circuits ground wires on the stator and connect them together. Connect both external wires from the stator to the full wave rectifier. The coils would not be overloaded. No insulation needed. Only one regulator needed. No smoothing diode. No capacitor. A relay to turn off the lights would still be needed. But the original tach would not work. It could be driven by the AC before the reg/rec, but the number of poles would be wrong and I believe cause an incorrect reading. Maybe not- try it. A different type of tach could probably be used.
I am going to have to take a break on this. As I see it I have three choices.
1. Give up on HID and use one of the new, high power incandescents.
2. Let you tear your hair out and figure it out and then just do it the way you did.
3. Just buy a damn Ski-Doo with DC.