11-10-2020, 10:03 AM
(11-10-2020, 01:09 AM)12jslater Wrote: Unfortunately the regulator is a new electronic one that came with the car, so points sticking won't be an issue, I hope there isn't any issues with it as these electronics aren't exactly easily repairable given the biggest things on the circuit board is about the size of a grain of rice haha
The cut out relay is replaced by a power diode in all the electronic cutouts/regulators I've seen. the diode is there to allow current flow from the dynamo to the battery but deny current flow from the battery to the non charging dynamo when there is no charge. there is really only two failure modes for a diode: they either go from being a semiconductor to a being a straightforward conductor which will then allow reverse flow, or they just don't conduct at all i.e. they become a disconnect.