dillon did a big troll no no. he told me to stop with the techno babble jargon. it's so important to know the jargon because you can't order ready made parts without knowing them. I mean anyone can go on a crap site like oregon sprack superbright they can spoon feed you. but this costs $'s. dillon did the ma wrong. if you understand the terms and what it means you can order parts yourself. expect this post to get plenty of spam it will piss people off.
this conversion assumes you just bought an old puch maxi for about 350$ and its ready for restoration. you have already changed the points and got the bike running. now its time to fix the lights.
techno babble jargon in this post, full wave rec/reg, half wave rec/reg. yup, two terms to learn.
full wave rec/reg: means the stator is not grounded. full power. you have stator wires connected to each other but not grounded to the frame. this rec/reg will blow up if the stator is grounded half wave.
half wave rec/reg: means the one end of the stator is grounded. this is the case in the puch maxi. its the smaller coil with the grey and a yellow wire. both are grounded to the frame. the stator output will be grey + yellow devided by 2. 1/2 the power is wasted. half power is plenty today. even if you switch to 12v from 6v. why? leds use much less juice. another plus is you can run without a battery with leds. why you need to know the jargon is this is not a common part. the techno babble are the kewords needed to buy this part dillon.
this part comes in four flavors, full wave and half wave. 6v and 12v. the puch is half wave. so the key words to ordering the correct modern part would be: 12v half wave rectifier regulator. I would not run a battery. I use a 63v 22,000uf cap. I'm not a battery tender kind of guy. wires in just like a battery. cheap and light. because we are at 1/2 power we need to reduce the load. swap the bulbs to led to finish the conversion.
Dillon says no cockail napkin diagram. who would not like this diagram. more troll nonsense. this diagram is for puch but there are so many others wired this way. looks like two switches with a battery but I use a two pole toggle switch so it is just one toggle switch. I usually mount it under the seat where I can easily throw the switch when I'm riding. hidden kill doubles as a security device. you need to swap out the bulbs to led but because you have regulated and rectified you now can use chepo cob led's. I have no problem with anyone who silicon glues the 800lm 1.40$ ebay h4 led bulb to the puch headlight.
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