VSR Alternator Regulator

Thursday, July 14, 2016

First Run - CAN enabled regulator with remote instrumentation!

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Over the past month I have been  doing live test runs of the revised Alternator Regulator in 'stand alone' mode; where is senses v...
Thursday, June 30, 2016

Looking at Tachometers – aka, ‘My Tach Stops Working When the Batteries are Full!’

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It is common in Diesel engines to sample the Stator output of an alternator as a way to drive a tachometer.  After appropriate calibration i...
Thursday, April 7, 2016

Regulator stops working when ENABLE volts drops below 12.5v

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Today I received a comment from Jeremy that during bench-testing he noted his regulator would stop functioning when the ENABLE voltage droop...

V0.1.8 Source released

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Under the Source resource tab above you will find release v0.1.8.   This has a very small change to it in startup that corrects a bug preven...
Wednesday, March 16, 2016

Meet the newest member!

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OK,  There has been some work underfoot.   Over the past months I have been revising the Arduino Alternator Regulator design,and here is the...
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Saturday, January 30, 2016

Caution when burning the bootloader - TURN OFF THE DIP SWITCHES!

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In reviewing the design I noticed that by dual-purposing two of the pins on the ICSP connector (SCK & MISO) there is a potential for pro...
Tuesday, November 10, 2015

v0.1.7 source released

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Today I posted v0.1.7 of the Arudino Alternator Regulator source code, look under the SOURCE resource tab above. This release is based la...
Friday, September 11, 2015

VERY ROUGH - NMEA-2000 bridge source posted

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Over the past couple of days I have put together a VERY ROUGH NMEA-2000 bridge, see source code under above resource link (and make sure to ...
Saturday, August 22, 2015

NMEA-2000 bridge

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A few people have asked about connecting an Arduino Alternator Regulator to the NMEA-2000 bus - just to report out status.   This morning I ...
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Tuesday, July 7, 2015

Hint during installation - remove the old stuff!

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This past week I received a hint that I wanted to pass on:  when installing the new Smart Alternator Regulator make sure to FULLY remove an...
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