Hi, as usually I experiment on my guinea pig motorcycle to make things, I have that dream now of making a robust regulator/rectifier that will never die. As I understand so far generally in voltage regulators a low resistance has to be at the output, for ex. the datasheet of LM317 shows a 0.2Ω resistance at the output to protect the cells of the battery. It makes sense that any charging circuit should have such resistance as the internal resistance of the battery is very low, correct? But as I see in the bike’s wire diagram there is not such resistance which again makes sense as it would burden the alternator with more load during operation. At any given moment I believe the current draw is anything around 10A (headlight only needs 4.5A) so even if the reg/rect had a 0.2Ω at the output that would be 20W loss, plus a bulky resistor. Is it assumed that this low resistance is provided by the current path (wire, connectors etc)? If yes, is this a reliable practice? It seems like my tendency to be hypochondriac when I do electric repairs and make the crimp connections as low resistive as possible using both crimp and solder is not good here…