Datatek
Well-Known Member
I used to fit smart regulators to alternators on boats. They would charge at the full output of the alternator controlled by 4 main parameters, battery voltage via current free sense wires, battery temperature, alternator temperature and time. At intervals the charge voltage would drop to trickle charge level and depending on the voltage on the sense wires would resume if necessary. This ensured that the batteries were rapidly fully charged, something that would have taken for ever with a standard regulator.People like Datatek and Martyuk know way more on electrical stuff than I ever will. My basic knowledge dug up from some chemistry lesson 20 years ago tells me the battery takes a shed load of power when it is empty and then that will drop off as it is charged until when fully charged it just needs a trickle to keep it topped up. So it sounds like they have replicated that with their alternator. Should make the battery last longer although with all that complication you have to wonder if the alternator will.