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Originally Posted by Yellow650Loz
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If a connector gets corroded it will cause a higher resistance.....this will drop the VOLTAGE at the load which will increase the current drawn......please see ohms law for ref.
As the current increases this will increase the temperature of the corroded connector and further increase the resistance.
The amount of heat that can be physically conducted back to the R/R is miniscule. I won't say it can't be conducted back but if I heat just the tip of a length of say 14AWG wire to solder to, or get it cherry red.....20CM away from that point will be ambient or close to. Either way it's negligible. Consider that diodes are generally ok just over 70 deg c, if they weren't then the processor I'm your computer would fail about 10 seconds after switching on.
Having said that, as the old proverb goes. A candle that burns twice as bright lasts only half as long; yes, the hotter something runs, it's working lifespan will be reduced but we're talking about an R/R it's designed to run that hot.
The R/R is doesn't try to compensate, if the voltage drops below 13.5vdc with the lamps on high beam at 5000rpm then it's out of spec; or the charge systems components are unsuitable for the current load required. This is the reason the stator was upgraded on the injection bikes to circa 300w IIRC ...... Its got more electrics to run and therefore more load. The only thing it will do is stop feeding so much current and waste this off as heat.
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SV650rules I hope this helps you as well as the OP or anyone in the future reading this thread.
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Not helped at all…………………….
You are having a laff right ? if you increase resistance anywhere in a circuit and voltage stays the same current is always going to drop (see Ohms law I = V/R if the numerator stays the same (V) and the denominator gets larger (R) the value of result (I) has to get smaller. You are making the mistake of keeping the 'wattage' at the load at eg 55watt, and sure enough to maintain 55watt at a lower voltage the current would have to increase (W-V*I) but as the voltage drops that 55watt bulb will just get dimmer, and while the number on the bulb may still say 55watt the bulb will not produce 55 watt of light because it is designed to be 55watt at 12.5 volts.
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Originally Posted by Yellow650Loz
AC and DC work differently, with an AC system we deal with higher voltages in order to use solid core wherever possible. Electrons move over the outside of conductors with only a few exceptions and so the surface area is greatly reduced, thus can handle a lower current.
AC has more of a tendancy to arc due to the magnetic field created, I won't go too far into this as it isn't relevant to the OP, the first discharge lamps were DC and VERY unreliable due to the high current required to create the arc, AC ballasts are far more reliable and so the lower current draw is far more forgiving on it's components, especially within the discharge capsule.
If the 55 watt bulb is replace with a standard resistor with fairly flat resistance / temperature characteristics
I presume you mean using a resistor with 5% tolerance.....one with a gold band?
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It is only at pretty high frequency you get a ‘pipe’ effect with electrons where they tend to use outside of conductor, at 50Hz no probelmo ( they use solid core cable for normal domestic wiring). The reason a solid core is used in house wiring and not in machinery and vehicles is that solid cores tend to break when they are subject to movement and vibration, where stranded ‘flexibles’ do not’.
The tolerance of a resistor has nothing to do with whether it has a low or a high positive or negative coefficient of resistance, it is all down to what it is made from – when I said a standard resistor it was ‘a standard resistor that is designed (as they are) to not change resistance much as it got hotter or cooler’ (which is the opposite of a bulb filament the resistance of which changes massively as it heats up).
Actually DC has more of a tendency to arc than AC, simply because an sine wave (AC) passes through zero volts once every half cycle ( every 10mSec at 50 Hz) as it transitions from positive to negative – this will quench any arc (an arc cannot exist without voltage), DC only passes through zero volts when it is turned off, so once an arc is established there is nothing to quench it.