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Offline silver fox

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Do i Need to Rubber Mount
« on: April 22, 2009, 01:13:48 PM »
Just bought a combined regulator/rectifier from David Silver, and it will be mounted under my seat. My question to you is do i need to rubber mount it???? Or shall i just bolt it down to my home made alloy electric tray????


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Offline Duke McDukiedook

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Re: Do i Need to Rubber Mount
« Reply #1 on: April 22, 2009, 01:15:25 PM »
Is the body grounded? If not you won't need any rubbers.
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Re: Do i Need to Rubber Mount
« Reply #2 on: April 22, 2009, 01:32:26 PM »


Honda "rubber mounted" the voltage regulator because shaking the dickens out of a mechanical device like a relay is bad.  The solid state stuff (I assume the David Silver unit is solid state) would be less susceptible to problems like that.  The other issue you need to worry about is whether it's counting on a ground where it mounts. 

It looks to me like it's pretty much a drop in and NEEDS to be grounded since it only has 2 wires besides the rectifier connector.  The factory regulator needs 3 wires, one of which is ground.  In other words, if you isolate with rubber mounting, be sure to ground the case. 


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Re: Do i Need to Rubber Mount
« Reply #3 on: April 22, 2009, 01:56:18 PM »
OK guys, many thanks, and yes it is like the one in the pic, ie, solid state.
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Offline Inigo Montoya

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Re: Do i Need to Rubber Mount
« Reply #4 on: April 22, 2009, 02:04:10 PM »
maybe rubber mount it anyways and run a very short ground wire? Electronics dont much care to be shaken anyways as the solder joints are pretty small and may be fragile.

Just a thought.
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Re: Do i Need to Rubber Mount
« Reply #5 on: April 22, 2009, 02:35:43 PM »
return that sucker and goto

www.oregonmotorcycleparts.com

tony's stuff is way better and has a LIFETIME warrenty!!!!!!!! and you can get lots of other stuff  from him as well!
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