well i would love to get a bmw but considering i paid less then $3k for this bike, i cant complain too much. And with gas sitting at $3/gal and my jeep getting 19 mpg's my bikes 55 mpg looks so much better.
Yeah i wish they could have built an alternator system in. I would design and install it myself, but the engine revs too high (7500 is red line and limiter kicks in at 8k rpm) and would destroy the comunicator. I would have to gear down the rotor, but it cant be done cheaply as it is mounted on the crankshaft.
yeah i cant believe how much this system is burning off. When i rewind the stator, the low voltage at idle should jump to about 10-11 ish. a booster circut wont be needed. its getting rid of the excess 80 volts when it is up at 7k rpm. Someone i am in touch with is using SCR's and having them turn on when the voltage is just right in the cycle. The issue he has run into is the current isnt high enough. Since the voltage is already in AC, how effect would a step down transformer be?
another idea i had was in the stator. how hard would it be to "double" wind the stator in this fasion. When at idle, it is in a Y configuration, and when voltage jumps lets say over 30 volts, it then changes to a delta? This i assume would be done by the regulator.
Or this configuration. each pole would have 2 sets of windings. when the voltage rises over 30 volts, it starts alternating between the windings? this would decrease the amount of voltage seen, and lower temps. how would the current run? I know the voltage is related to the turns, and current to the gauge of the wire. would it drop?