Hi, Alan.
The voltage stabiliser is actually a [slow-speed electromechanical
with very little damping] switch-mode regulator. So a DVM will show
all over the place. The output is a pulse-width modulated square wave
with a high value of battery voltage and a low value of ground. An
analog meter will at least show you the switching, while the gauges
are slow enough that they behave as if they received a constant 10V.
HTH,
Donald.
> Date: Sat, 06 Jan 2001 17:23:08 -0800
> From: Alan Lemen <alemen@ftconnect.com>
>
>
[snips]
> Voltage on stabiliser side of instruments is all over the place on my
> DVM. Max is just over 11v and min just over 6v. Since the engine is not
> running and it's simply the battery I did not expect this. I had hoped
> to see stable 10v (I am sure I had seen this value somewhere before and
> it has to be less than the battery voltage).
>
> Question is what voltage should it be and should it be stable. It is
> supposed to be a stabiliser.
>
> Alan
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