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Monty wrote:Sent an email to the guy I bought it off to see if he gets many failures just in case. Been ebay he may not reply, but he seems to be a classic motorcycle guy, and if these work he may sell a few to guys on here, already got some guys at the club waiting to see my results

I was going to suggest that too, if all else failed. He sells loads of them and seems to be a decent eBay seller. I also spoke to somebody else that sells them, before I bought mine, and he swore by their reliability, but there's always a first time.
Interested to hear about the diode too, keep me posted.

Is the Podtronic unit both a regulator and a rectifier?

CANbus wrote:Is the Podtronic unit both a regulator and a rectifier?

Yes...

What sort of voltages should be delivered from the Podtronic unit?

CANbus wrote:What sort of voltages should be delivered from the Podtronic unit?

I havnt run the Podtronic, but the rectifier regulators normally regulate from 14.2 -14.6... the battery will start to suffer much above this...

soulsurfer wrote:

Monty wrote:Sent an email to the guy I bought it off to see if he gets many failures just in case. Been ebay he may not reply, but he seems to be a classic motorcycle guy, and if these work he may sell a few to guys on here, already got some guys at the club waiting to see my results

I was going to suggest that too, if all else failed. He sells loads of them and seems to be a decent eBay seller. I also spoke to somebody else that sells them, before I bought mine, and he swore by their reliability, but there's always a first time.
Interested to hear about the diode too, keep me posted.

Got an email back saying he only sells them and has no experience of any problems and recommends an auto electrician. To be honest more than I expected.
Firekdp sent me some info about metering out the diodes of the bridge rectifier and that seems to check out, Now I have the extra wire on the stator, thats the pain in the bum part, I will loose the plugs and hard wire the thing next week.
I work in MK mid week so its weekend only for lambrettas.
Thanks for everyones help, I can always revert back to my bridge rec, Zena and cap built into my old square rectifier box. I just thought sod it you tight sod get one that works...

Monty I have been carrying out the conversion also over the weekend. The extra wire from your stator can't this simply be grounded outside the mag?
I defiantly get brighter lights, however I don’t get the constant dc voltage I need, I’m not sure what’s going on in this department just yet. The voltage bounces all over the place, could be a bad machine ground.

Hi Monty, I have just checked back and I don't think you have mentioned what the DC output from the rectifier is without being connected to the loom. I was just wondering if something could be dragging the DC output down. If you haven't tried it it's worth a shot.

Some rectifiers are energised and don't let current flow properly until a charged battery is connected, the one that I use is like that...

coaster wrote:Hi Monty, I have just checked back and I don't think you have mentioned what the DC output from the rectifier is without being connected to the loom. I was just wondering if something could be dragging the DC output down. If you haven't tried it it's worth a shot.

Now thats the bit I struggled with
Meter on the ground bolt and the other on the connector block of the loom
Lights on, 7.4DC lights off, around 2.5, I presumed the thing has to have a load to give a reading, to be honest it was one of those thats odd???? maybe not enough for me to mention it? I was also surprised how high it was on AC strait off the stator 45VAC while revving fast. I will try and find a transformer at work and connect it up and see what happens.
I think its getting to the point of nowt I can do till next week, but I will disconnect the ground and meter the output of the regulator, maybe put a bulb on it and start from that.