Go for it!  We all need double problems. (Mile Miller I don't want to
hear from you.)
What the hey is an existing DIN?
Stan Wilder

On Sat, 13 Apr 2002 10:14:25 -0700 David Marshall
<vanagon@VOLKSWAGEN.ORG> writes:
> The dual alternators that I have seen in Germany (have one set of
> brackets
> here and a complete setup sitting in Germany at this moment - both
> from a
> TD) have an external regulator.  It is really kind of neat too - in
> stead of
> a radio existing in the DIN opening in the dash there is a knob and
> a set of
> LEDs.  These LEDs show the voltage of the system and the knob is
> used to
> turn it up or down to compensate for the electrical load of the
> system.  The
> dual alternator set-ups that I have are from Syncro T3s that were
> used by
> the German Army for radio communications.  The alternators are 65A
> each and
> are just paralleled together.  I think the key is to have external
> regulation to ensure that both are putting out the same voltage and
> not
> fighting against each other.  A F@rd external voltage regulator will
> do the
> trick - there is a web site out there with a person doing this mod
> (single
> alt) in a Volvo with a Bosch Alternator.
>
> David Marshall
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com]On
> Behalf
> Of Alistair Bell
> Sent: April 13, 2002 7:34 AM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Re: Big Alternators - take 2
>
>
> slipped on the keyboard - sent partial message!
>
> What I meant to say in the garbled message was that the work done
> will be
> the same whether you use on or two alternators.
>
> Maybe David means that if your van's electrical system is drawing
> close to
> 110 amps then splitting the job between two (close to 55 amps each)
> is less
> "stressful" on each alternator.
>
> I can see an advantage to having 2 alternators (do they have to be
> matched?
> I don't think so) where one is dedicated to the house battery and
> the other
> to the starting battery. That way the charging/output
> characteristics of
> each alternator can be matched to the battery served.
>
>  Mind you, you can get a honking big (externally regulated too)
> alternator
> that would supply all the electrons a vanagon owner could possibly
> need
> (mmm, I sound a bit like B. Gates musing over the need for more than
> 604kb
> of RAM), and they look like they are not much bigger than a 90A
> unit. Then
> you won't have the problem of mounting 2 alternators (maybe easy,
> maybe
> not).
>
>
> Alistair
>
>
> --
> '82 Westy -> diesel converted to gas in '94
> albell@uvic.ca
> http://homepage.mac.com/alistairbell/home/
>
>
>
>
>
>
> on 13/04/2002 7:07 AM, Alistair Bell at albell@uvic.ca wrote:
>
> > have to be picky on this...work involved is same wheher one or
> two
> > alternators (110V*14V
> >
> >
> > on 12/04/2002 9:34 PM, David Marshall at vanagon@VOLKSWAGEN.ORG
> wrote:
> >
> >> The ultimate is to use two alternators - there are factory
> brackets for
> this
> >> and it is healthier for each alternator as they will be producing
> less
> >> current and not working as hard to achieve 110A
> >>
> >> David Marshall
> >
>

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