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<blockquote data-quote="Tom Gaynor" data-source="post: 11932" data-attributes="member: 4034"><p><strong>Three-phase Altons</strong></p><p></p><p>My three phase lasted longer than most, but eventually failed as they all seem to have done, and Paul Hamon reverted to the single phase. Mine was generously deemed still within warranty, so Paul sent me a new single phase (or if you prefer, a new old single phase) FOC. Unregulated it kicks out 31 volts AC, discovered while blaming the hardware for what turned out to be an occasional short from a severed wire) and I never think about it now. It balances a 55/60 headlamp at about 40 mph in top, and has done so for several thousand miles.</p><p>(I spotted the severed wire when I laid my head on the seat in despair of ever solving a mysterious electrical problem. Luckily I was looking towards the forks, and saw a wire where no wire should be. It was the live feed to the brake light switch on my front brake which had become trapped in the forks. It made me reconsider my dictum that there's nothing to be gained by giving way to despair.) </p><p>By the time it is dark enough to need headlamps up here it is too damned cold to ride, but it will balance gerbil heated gloves and headlamp at speeds low enough to avoid lethal wind-chill. Harder men than I, step forward Dick Sherwin, run headlamp and electrically heated everything (Y-fronts would be good) from a Sherwin/Walker car based unit, and have probably enough in hand to illuminate Coventry AND sell power to the national grid. Different strokes...</p><p>And to back up Pete, not that he needs it, fully charged my Yuasa BX14 or whatever shows 13.7 volts.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tom Gaynor, post: 11932, member: 4034"] [b]Three-phase Altons[/b] My three phase lasted longer than most, but eventually failed as they all seem to have done, and Paul Hamon reverted to the single phase. Mine was generously deemed still within warranty, so Paul sent me a new single phase (or if you prefer, a new old single phase) FOC. Unregulated it kicks out 31 volts AC, discovered while blaming the hardware for what turned out to be an occasional short from a severed wire) and I never think about it now. It balances a 55/60 headlamp at about 40 mph in top, and has done so for several thousand miles. (I spotted the severed wire when I laid my head on the seat in despair of ever solving a mysterious electrical problem. Luckily I was looking towards the forks, and saw a wire where no wire should be. It was the live feed to the brake light switch on my front brake which had become trapped in the forks. It made me reconsider my dictum that there's nothing to be gained by giving way to despair.) By the time it is dark enough to need headlamps up here it is too damned cold to ride, but it will balance gerbil heated gloves and headlamp at speeds low enough to avoid lethal wind-chill. Harder men than I, step forward Dick Sherwin, run headlamp and electrically heated everything (Y-fronts would be good) from a Sherwin/Walker car based unit, and have probably enough in hand to illuminate Coventry AND sell power to the national grid. Different strokes... And to back up Pete, not that he needs it, fully charged my Yuasa BX14 or whatever shows 13.7 volts. [/QUOTE]
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