electronic voltage regulator - for older cars

electronic voltage regulator ... elektor october 1983 New cars are invariably fitted with an electronic voltage regulator. To give owners of older cars the opportunity of also taking advantage of this far more reliable device, we have designed our own regulator. electronic voltage regulator... .. for older cars The electronic voltage regulator fitted to virtually all new cars is indisputably more reliable than its electro-mechanical counter- part. The latter has been with us for a long time and during all that time its main drawback has been its limited life. Contacts gradually burn away; the contact spring loses its "spring", and so on. If this results in the battery not being charged properly, it"s not so bad. After a few push-starts, you finally decide that a new regulator has to be fitted and that"s that. If, however, the battery is constantly overcharged as a consequence, it literally cooks and is soon destroyed. Often, this causes irrep- arable damage to the dynamo or alter-...