Timeline for Shortcircuited motorcycle alternator leads to RPM proportional losses?
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| Jun 10, 2015 at 10:05 | comment | added | brainwash | Good call, actually since the heat dissipation on the regulator is likely less than 50W then that should be proportional to the lost power. Assuming blindly that in the worst case the same power is lost in the windings then it would amount to 100W, let's be generous and say 200W. That amounts to 0.26 HP. | |
| Jun 21, 2011 at 0:56 | history | answered | JustJeff | CC BY-SA 3.0 |