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From: mcovingt@athena.cs.uga.edu (Michael A. Covington)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: solid-state automobile regulator for high-amperage power supply?
Keywords: 13.8V
Message-ID: <1991Jun20.031710.18834@athena.cs.uga.edu>
Date: 20 Jun 91 03:17:10 GMT
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Organization: University of Georgia, Athens
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The voltage regulator in a car is a completely different thing -- it
regulates the current energizing the field coils of the alternator,
and only indirectly regulates _voltage_.

Regulating 20 amps is a tall order. It can be done with lots of
transistors in parallel, with small load-balancing resistors in
series with each.

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