Thread: Weirdness with dynamo light wiring
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Old 05-12-15 | 02:40 PM
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corrado33
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Originally Posted by fietsbob
No.. Hub dynamos are alternators they put out AC not DC. the light would have a Bridge Rectifier in it

to internally convert to DC (if it needs to be so), ... a converter to USB is both rectifier and voltage regulator ..


You emailed Planet bike yet, their import office is in Wisconsin. .. It work Steady On?
Good to know. I am obviously dynamo ignorant. I would have thought that the rectifier was in the dynamo and not the light.
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