摘要:
In a battery charging system a permanent magnet alternator supplies power to a pair of supply lines through a full wave rectifier including a diode and a thyristor for each phase of the alternator. The battery of the vehicle is connected in parallel with the vehicle load between the supply lines, and also connected between the supply lines is an oscillator which supplies signals to the gates of the thyristors to keep them conducting so that the full wave rectifier allows power to be supplied from the alternator to the supply lines, but cuts off this power if the voltage between the supply lines rises above a predetermined value. In order to protect the vehicle loads, a fuse or similar device is connected in series with the oscillator, and a Zener diode or similar device is connected in parallel with the oscillator, so that the oscillator will cut off in the event of an overload condition.