Wayne.B wrote in
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That's contrary to my experience and that of *many* others. If you
momentarily remove the load on the alternator, a voltage transient is
created that exceeds the PIV rating of the diodes and they fail faster
than you can talk about it. It happens all the time.




A 2.5KV PIV diode costs the same as a 400 PIV diode. They'd be crazy to
put in one too small. We're talking about an ALTERNATOR, not some DC
generator. It has no regulator, just its own resistance. I'd love to see
one fail. I've never heard of it failing...well, except when some boob
idiot shorts out the battery....overcurrenting the diodes, I suppose.

Hmm...very interesting.



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