Hello, new here so hope I'm not posting in the wrong thread etc. Also even though I know enough to do house wiring and testing, I am still learning in auto troubleshooting and dc discrete or integrated circuits.
I was studing a schematic for 3 phase alternator (stator) to a voltage regulator that is finally diode rectified into the positive lead of the battery to supply a surplus voltage and current so as to both boost the ouput of the battery and charge it during operation.
(eliminating a long story of thyristors shorting the alternator coils intermittently as the stator voltage becomes too high to feed into the battery)
So my question is this. When I saw that the charging system's input was directed INTO the positive (returning electron direction) terminal of the battery, something NEW popped on in my head. I had always (previously) visualized the charging system dumping it's potential into the neg terminal of the battery and in essense creating a oppossing (and stronger) voltage actually supplying the systems needs and forcing the left over current back into the neg battery terminal (speaking in terms of electron flow direction).
However after seeing this it appears my visual folly was not the case but rather the phase of the AC (thru the direction of rectification) goes into the red positive side of the battery actually JOINING (instead of opposing) the electron flow direction and thereby BECOMING part of the total voltage source going thru the battery and then supplying system needs once thru the battery, but all the while the 'vaccum' of battery plate charges are being replenshed (charged).
Please comment as to my STILL misunderstanding of this scenario or any input you wish to give. If my question is worded ambiguous please tell me so that I might attempt a different explanation.
I was studing a schematic for 3 phase alternator (stator) to a voltage regulator that is finally diode rectified into the positive lead of the battery to supply a surplus voltage and current so as to both boost the ouput of the battery and charge it during operation.
(eliminating a long story of thyristors shorting the alternator coils intermittently as the stator voltage becomes too high to feed into the battery)
So my question is this. When I saw that the charging system's input was directed INTO the positive (returning electron direction) terminal of the battery, something NEW popped on in my head. I had always (previously) visualized the charging system dumping it's potential into the neg terminal of the battery and in essense creating a oppossing (and stronger) voltage actually supplying the systems needs and forcing the left over current back into the neg battery terminal (speaking in terms of electron flow direction).
However after seeing this it appears my visual folly was not the case but rather the phase of the AC (thru the direction of rectification) goes into the red positive side of the battery actually JOINING (instead of opposing) the electron flow direction and thereby BECOMING part of the total voltage source going thru the battery and then supplying system needs once thru the battery, but all the while the 'vaccum' of battery plate charges are being replenshed (charged).
Please comment as to my STILL misunderstanding of this scenario or any input you wish to give. If my question is worded ambiguous please tell me so that I might attempt a different explanation.